Phone: (323) 442-5908
Fax: (323) 442-5721
E-mail: usckidney@surgery.hsc.usc.edu

Dr. Genyk is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the USC School of Medicine and the Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery. Additionally, he is an attending surgeon at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

Dr. Genyk graduated with honors from Ivano-Frankivk's Medical Institute in Ukraine. He received his postgraduate medical and research training at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He has considerable expertise in living-related donor liver transplantation, pediatric liver transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation as well as general hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.

Shortly after joining the USC faculty, the USC Liver Transplant Team pioneered living-related donor liver transplantation at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Dr. Genyk is board certified in general surgery and ASTS certified in transplant surgery. His research interests include innovations in live donor kidney and liver transplantation, minimally invasive surgery for renal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, xenotransplantation and immunological tolerance in transplantation.

Name:		Yuri Genyk, M.D.
Title:		Assistant Professor of Surgery
Date of Employment:		9/1/98
Board Certification:		Surgery - Certified 1997
Specialty:		Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Liver Resection
Post-Residency Training:		Abdominal Organ and Multivisceral Transplantation Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 1996-1998