The Liver Transplant Surgery Program and Center for Liver Disease at the University of Southern California consists of personnel who specialize in the following hepatobiliary and pancreatic procedures:

Live Donor Liver Transplant: Replacement of a diseased liver due to chronic liver failure, acute liver failure or tumors within the liver. The diseased liver is replaced with a segment of liver from a healthy human donor (usually a relative or close friend).

Liver Transplantation: Replacement of a diseased liver due to chronic liver failure, acute liver failure or tumors within the liver. The diseased liver is replaced with a healthy liver from a "brain dead" human donor.

Liver Surgery: Liver resections for tumors, removal of stones within the substance of the liver, repair of bile duct injuries within the liver, biopsy of the liver for tumors within the liver.

Pancreatic Surgery: Pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure), pylorus preserving Whipple procedure, pancreatic head resection (Beger's operation), lateral pancreaticojejunostomy (Puestow procedure), internal pancreatic pseudocyst drainage, pancreatic debridement and drainage for pancreatic necrosis, autotransplantation of pancreatic islets.

Gallbladder and Bile Duct Surgery: Laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy, gallbladder and biliary surgery in pregnant females, surgical repair for bile ducts that have been injured during laparoscopic gallbladder removal, surgical removal of gallbladder and biliary cancers.

Portal Hypertension Surgery: Thrombosis or obstruction of the mesenteric venous system, splenic vein, portal vein, or of the hepatic veins (Budd-Chiari syndrome).