NahelEliasMDFACS

Hepatobiliary Surgery, Pancreas, Transplantation

Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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Office
55 Fruit St.
White 546
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-0174

Fax+1 617-724-5993
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Education & Training

Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, 2002 - 2004
North Oakland Medical CentersResidency, Surgery, 1997 - 2002
Damascus University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1994

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 2002 - 2025
VT State Medical License 2013 - 2020
MI State Medical License 1997 - 2002
American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Member Society of University Surgeons
Member American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Member American Society of Transplantation
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Clinical Trials

HOPE in Action Prospective Multicenter, Clinical Trial of Deceased HIVD+ Kidney Transplants for HIV+ Recipients Start of enrollment: 2018 Apr 19
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Study of Efficacy, Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetic (PK) and Pharmacodynamic (PD) of an Anti-CD40 Monoclonal Antibody, CFZ533, in Kidney Transplant Recipients Start of enrollment: 2018 Nov 28
Completed
Phase 2
HOPE in Action Trial of HIV+ Deceased Donor Liver Transplants for HIV+ Recipients Start of enrollment: 2019 Jan 04
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Study of Efficacy, Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetic (PK) and Pharmacodynamic (PD) of an Anti-CD40 Monoclonal Antibody, CFZ533, in Liver Transplant Recipients With Additional 12-month Follow-up and Long-term Extension Start of enrollment: 2019 Oct 07
Completed
Phase 2
HCV + to HCV - Kidney Transplant Start of enrollment: 2020 May 21
Withdrawn
Phase 4
QUICKly Eradicate Hepatitis C in Patients Undergoing REnal Transplant With 4 Weeks of Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir Start of enrollment: 2021 May 01
Completed
Phase 4
Kidney Transplantation From Donors With HIV: Impact on Rejection and Long-Term Outcomes (Expanding HOPE Kidney) Start of enrollment: 2024 Apr 01
Not yet recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Reduced Postdischarge Incidents After Implementation of a Hospital-to-Home Transition Intervention for Children With Medical Complexity.
Kathleen Huth, Arda Hotz, Norah Emara, Bryanna Robertson, Marissa Leaversuch, Alexandra N Mercer, Alisa Khan, Maria-Lucia Campos, Isabella Liss, Phillip D Hahn, Dionne...> ;Journal of Patient Safety. 2023 Oct 1
1 citations
Impact of Portable Normothermic Machine Perfusion for Liver Transplantation From Adult Deceased Donors.
Takayuki Yamamoto, Srilakshmi Atthota, Divyansh Agarwal, Kerry Crisalli, Malcolm MacConmara, Tsukasa Nakamura, Richard Teo, Leigh Anne Dageforde, Shoko Kimura, Nahel E...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2023 Nov 1
Donor-derived disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis in liver transplantation: Considerations for deceased donor liver selection.
Srilakshmi Atthota, Anne MacDonald, James F Markmann, David Kuter, Nahel Elias, Heidi Yeh, Walter H Dzik, Leigh Anne Dageforde> ;Liver Transplantation. 2023 Oct 1
2 citations
Impact of donor sex on hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence in liver transplantation after brain death.
Tsukasa Nakamura, Kazunari Sasaki, Lisa Kojima, Richard Teo, Yosuke Inaba, Takayuki Yamamoto, Shoko Kimura, Leigh Anne Dageforde, Heidi Yeh, Nahel Elias, Adel Bozorgza...> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2023 Aug 1
1 citations
Analysis of the effects of donor and recipient hepatitis C infection on kidney transplant outcomes in the United States.
Qing Yuan, Shanjuan Hong, Gregory Leya, Eve Roth, W W Williams, Joren C Madsen, Nahel Elias, Tsoulfas, G., Georgios Tsoulfas> ;World Journal of Transplantation. 2023 Feb 18
6 citations
Resection of NAFLD/NASH-related Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC): Clinical Features and Outcomes Compared with HCC Due to Other Etiologies.
Surendra Pal Chaudhary, Stephanie Reyes, Matthew L Chase, Aparna Govindan, Lei Zhao, Jay Luther, Irun Bhan, Emily Bethea, Joseph W Franses, Elizabeth Paige Walsh, Leig...> ;The Oncologist. 2023 Apr 6
20 citations
Banff Human Organ Transplant Transcripts Correlate with Renal Allograft Pathology and Outcome: Importance of Capillaritis and Subpathologic Rejection.
Ivy A Rosales, Grace K Mahowald, Kristen Tomaszewski, Kiyohiko Hotta, Naoya Iwahara, Takuya Otsuka, Takahiro Tsuji, Yusuke Takada, Ellen Acheampong, Milagros Araujo-Me...> ;Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2022 Dec 1
4 citations
The effect of induction immunosuppression for kidney transplant on the latent HIV reservoir.
Sarah E Benner, Yolanda Eby, Xianming Zhu, Reinaldo E Fernandez, Eshan U Patel, Jessica E Ruff, Feben Habtehyimer, Haley A Schmidt, Charles S Kirby, Sarah Hussain, Dar...> ;JCI Insight. 2022 Nov 8
Revisiting the "Weekend Effect" on Adult and Pediatric Liver and Kidney Offer Acceptance.
Takayuki Yamamoto, Mike Fruscione, Shoko Kimura, Nahel Elias, Heidi Yeh, Tatsuo Kawai, James F Markmann, Shah, A.> ;Annals of Transplantation. 2022 Nov 4
1 citations
Long-term Outcome Reporting in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients and the Limitations of Conventional Survival Metrics.
Thomas Vanhove, Nahel Elias, Kassem Safa, Abraham Cohen-Bucay, Jesse D Schold, Leonardo V Riella, Hannah Gilligan> ;Kidney International Reports. 2022 Nov 1
3 citations
Surgical complications after living and deceased donor liver transplant: The NSQIP transplant experience.
Dominic Amara, Justin Parekh, Debra Sudan, Nahel Elias, David P Foley, Arielle Grieco, Hillary J Braun, Stuart Greenstein, Claudia Byrd, Clifford Ko, Ryutaro Hirose, C...> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2022 Jun 1
Case report: Successful simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation across a positive complement-dependent cytotoxic crossmatch.
Takayuki Yamamoto, Daniel S Pearson, Emad I Ababneh, Cynthia Harris, Pitchaphon Nissaisorakarn, Grace K Mahowald, Yael K Heher, Nahel Elias, James F Markmann, Gregory ...> ;Frontiers in Nephrology. 2022 Jan 1
Heterogeneity in transplant center responses to the minimum acceptance criteria across UNOS regions.
Eve M. Roth, Omar J. Haque, Qing Yuan, Camille N. Kotton, James F. Markmann, Devin E. Eckhoff, Nahel Elias> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2021 Nov 29
25 citations
HOPE in action: A prospective multicenter pilot study of liver transplantation from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV.
Christine M. Durand, Sander Florman, Jennifer D. Motter, Diane M. Brown, Darin Ostrander, Sile Yu, Tao Liang, William A. Werbel, Andrew M. Cameron, Shane Ottmann, Jame...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 Nov 6
5 citations
Temporal Trends and Impact of Willingness to Accept Organs from Donors with Hepatitis C Virus
Qing Yuan, Hanwen Cui, Greg A. Leya, Shanjuan Hong, Eve M. Roth, Meghan E. Sise, Emily D. Bethea, Heidi Yeh, Winfred W. Williams, Nahel Elias> ;Transplant International. 2021 Nov 2
Influence of donor and recipient hepatitis B virus infection on long-term outcomes after kidney transplantation.
Qing Yuan, Omar Sultan Haque, Shanjuan Hong, Andric Ortiz, Emily D. Bethea, Meghan E. Sise, James F. Markmann, Nahel Elias> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2021 Oct 21
9 citations
Association of donor hepatitis C virus infection status and risk of BK polyomavirus viremia after kidney transplantation
Miklos Z Molnar, Vishnu S. Potluri, Douglas E. Schaubel, Meghan E. Sise, Beatrice P. Concepcion, Rachel C. Forbes, Emily A. Blumberg, Roy D. Bloom, David Shaffer, Raym...> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 Oct 6
8 citations
National Landscape of HIV+ Deceased Organ Donors in the United States.
William A. Werbel, Diane M. Brown, Oyinkansola T. Kusemiju, Brianna Doby, Shanti Seaman, Andrew D. Redd, Yolanda Eby, Reinaldo E Fernandez, Niraj M. Desai, Jernelle Mi...> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2021 Aug 28
Addressing Transplant Candidacy When Evaluating Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulant Agents in Patients on Hemodialysis.
Eliot Heher, Nahel Elias> ;Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2021 Aug 18
8 citations
Hepatectomy for Solitary Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Resection Margin Width Does Not Predict Survival.
Theodoros Michelakos, Filippos Kontos, Yurie Sekigami, Motaz Qadan, Lei Cai, Onofrio A. Catalano, Vikram Deshpande, Madhukar S. Patel, Teppei Yamada, Nahel Elias, Leig...> ;Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2021 Jul 1
23 citations
The Role of Immunotherapy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis of 2,402 Patients.
Ioannis A. Ziogas, Alexandros P. Evangeliou, Dimitrios Giannis, Muhammad Hashim Hayat, Konstantinos S. Mylonas, Samer Tohme, David A. Geller, Nahel Elias, Lipika Goyal...> ;The Oncologist. 2021 Jun 1
2 citations
Understanding the Impact of Pneumonia and Other Complications in Elderly Liver Transplant Recipients: An Analysis of NSQIP Transplant
Gabriel T. Schnickel, Stuart M. Greenstein, Jennifer Berumen, Nahel Elias, Debra L. Sudan, Kristin L. Mekeel, David P. Foley, Ryutaro Hirose, Justin R. Parekh> ;Transplantation Direct. 2021 Apr 23
7 citations
Genome-wide profiling of BK polyomavirus integration in bladder cancer of kidney transplant recipients reveals mechanisms of the integration at the nucleotide level
Yu Jin, Yi Zhou, Wen-feng Deng, Yuchen Wang, Richard T. Lee, Yanna Liu, Nahel Elias, Yangcheng Hu, Min-Hua Luo, Rumin Liu, Bowen Guan, Jian Geng, Jian Xu, Junfeng Ma, ...> ;Oncogene. 2021 Jan 7
6 citations
Successful Living Kidney Donation After COVID-19 Infection.
Kassem Safa, Nahel Elias, Hannah Gilligan, Tatsuo Kawai, Camille N. Kotton> ;Transplantation. 2021 Jan 1
15 citations
Incidence and Outcomes of COVID-19 in Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients With HIV: Report From the National HOPE in Action Consortium.
Sapna A. Mehta, Meenakshi Rana, Jennifer D. Motter, Catherine B. Small, Marcus R. Pereira, Valentina Stosor, Nahel Elias, Brandy Haydel, Sander Florman, Jonah Odim, Me...> ;Transplantation. 2021 Jan 1
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Journal Articles

Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Transplantable Child-Pugh A Cirrhotics: Should Cost Affect Resection vs Transplantation?
Theodoros Michelakos, Dimitrios Xourafas, David Berger, James F Markmann, Cristina R Ferrone, Motaz Qadan, Kenneth K Tanabe, Joel T Adler, Nahel Elias, Heidi Yeh, Madh..., Journal of gastrointestinal surgery

Press Mentions

Where Kidney Transplants Are a Family HeritageJanuary 14th, 2019
A Surgeon, A Kidney Donor and A Kidney Recipient Walk into A Radio Studio...July 20th, 2018
This Website Makes Thousands of Organ Transplants in the US PossibleJune 10th, 2016
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Professional Memberships

American College of Surgeons - ACS
Member
Society of University Surgeons
Member

Other Languages

Arabic, French

External Links

MGH Kidney Transplant Programhttp://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/services/adult-kidney-transplant-program.aspx
MGH Profilehttp://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/doctors/doctor.aspx?id=18055