Henrik Petrowsky MD, FEBS (HPB), FACS

Dr. Henrik Petrowsky is a Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery and Transplantation at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He serves as Program Director of the HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant Fellowship at the Swiss HPB and Transplant Center Zurich. Dr. Petrowsky is heading the Liver and Pancreas Tumor Center, which is embedded in the Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich at the University Hospital Zurich. His current practice consists of liver transplantation and HPB surgery. His research interests have mirrored his clinical work, mainly focusing on translational and outcome research in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.

Dr. Petrowsky received his medical degree from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He spent a 2-year research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and completed his training in general surgery and hepatobiliary surgery at The University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2009, he completed the Multi-Organ Transplant Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles as Assistant Professor of Surgery-in-Residence and liver transplant attending.