Aaron Ahearn, MD-PhD

Dr. Aaron Ahearn is Assistant Professor of Surgery at Keck Medical Center of USC and surgical director of the Liver Transplant program.  He has an active clinical practice as a liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant surgeon, including living donor liver transplant.  His clinical research interests include expanding the use of living donor liver transplant, including bloodless liver transplant for Jehovah’s witnesses and other patients unwilling to receive blood products, and studying the economic impact of liver donation.  He also has an extensive background in Transplant Immunology, having previously studied the natural tolerance of Liver allografts in transgenic mouse models.  He is an active member of ASTS and previously receive the ASTS Roche Laboratory Scientist Scholarship and the American Foundation for Donation and Transplantation Careers in Transplantation Award.