Karim Halazun MD

Dr. Karim J. Halazun is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He joined the Emory Liver Transplant program after completing his transplantation fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center, where he also did his general surgery residency and surgical research fellowship. After receiving his medical degree with honors from the University of Leeds, UK, he completed a basic surgical training rotation from 2002 to 2007 at the Yorkshire School of Surgery. Much of his time was spent at St. James University Hospital, considered the largest and busiest teaching hospital in Europe. Throughout his training, he received such research awards as the Hepatobiliary and Transplant Fellow Award of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the Young Investigator Award of the American Transplant Society, and the American Society of Transplantation's Distinguished Fellow Research Award.