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    Sidharth Sharma, FACS

    Assistant Professor of Surgery (Transplant)
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    Additional Titles

    Quality Lead , Transplant & Immunology Surgery

    Medical Student Clerkship Rotation Director , Transplant & Immunology Surgery

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    Assistant Professor of Surgery (Transplant)

    Quality Lead , Transplant & Immunology Surgery; Medical Student Clerkship Rotation Director , Transplant & Immunology Surgery

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    Education & Training

    Advanced Microsurgery Course
    Cleveland Clinic (2022)
    Fellowship
    Columbia University
    Residency
    SUNY Downstate Medical Center

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Publications Timeline

    A big-picture view of Sidharth Sharma's research output by year.
    7Publications

    Publications

    2024

    2023

    • Surgical techniques for total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation
      @article{Sharma2019,title = {Surgical techniques for total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation},journal = {Transplantation, Bioengineering, and Regeneration of the Endocrine Pancreas: Volume 2},year = {2019},pages = {101-116},author = {Barrera, K. and Sharma, S. and Schwartzman, A. and Gruessner, R.W.G.}}
      Chapters
    • Surgical techniques for living donor pancreas transplantation
      @article{Sharma2019,title = {Surgical techniques for living donor pancreas transplantation},journal = {Transplantation, Bioengineering, and Regeneration of the Endocrine Pancreas: Volume 1},year = {2019},pages = {81-95},author = {Sharma, S. and Barrera, K. and Gruessner, R.W.G.}}
      Chapters
    • Surgical techniques for deceased donor pancreas transplantation
      @article{Sharma2019,title = {Surgical techniques for deceased donor pancreas transplantation},journal = {Transplantation, Bioengineering, and Regeneration of the Endocrine Pancreas: Volume 1},year = {2019},pages = {149-167},author = {Sharma, S. and Barrera, K. and Gruessner, R.W.G.}}
      Chapters

    2019

    2018

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    • activity

      Living with Liver Cancer: Ask the Experts

    • honor

      Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching

    Teaching & Mentoring

    Teaching

    • Didactic

      MD 2125: Surgical Approach to the Patient (SAP) Integrated Clerkship Block

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    Clinical Care

    Overview

    Sidharth Sharma, MD, is a multi-organ transplant surgeon who specializes in liver and kidney transplants, and has a special interest in living donor transplants for which he utilizes his advanced training in microvascular surgery. In addition, he performs hepatobiliary procedures, managing and providing surgical expertise to patients with cancer. He does minimally invasive procedures such as laparoscopic donor nephrectomies for kidney transplant recipients and laparoscopic liver resections for liver cancers.

    Dr. Sharma grew up in a family of physicians. “My dad is a surgeon, and my earliest memory is of looking at the pictorials of surgery steps in his textbooks,” he says. As a teenager, he helped his father care for patients a few days each month in an underserved clinic. “Years later, while doing a residency at a big cancer center in New York, I was drawn to transplant surgery, realizing that it is one of the most demanding and challenging specialties that exist in the field of surgery,” he says.

    After a decade of training to become a transplant surgeon, Dr. Sharma feels fortunate to have surgical skills he can use to save the lives of people whose organs are failing. “My practice deals with patients who have end-stage organ failure and a very difficult clinical course, because they suffer so much from the side effects of organ failure, which can be anything from bleeding to falling into a comatose state,” he says. “One can only imagine how they spring back to life once they are treated and functional again, when they are able to work, and spend time with their families and kids again.”

    An assistant professor of surgery (transplant) for Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Sharma is also a researcher with a special interest in liver perfusion pumps, which are machines that circulate enriched solutions around a donor liver to preserve it during transport to a recipient. “The goal of these artificial pumps is to allow us to accept more organs for our patients that might otherwise be rejected as unsuitable,” he says. “Our goal is to increase the usage of donor organs and decrease the discard rates.”

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