Professor of Surgery
Surgical Director of Liver Transplant 
Section Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery
Surgical Director of the Liver Cancer Program
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
NYU Langone Health

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Dr. Karim J. Halazun is Professor of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and serves as Surgical director of Liver Transplantation, Section Chief of Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery. Dr. Halazun is also the surgical director of the liver tumour program at NYU. He has led the liver program at NYU since 2022 after being recruited from Weill Cornell were her serves as associate professor of Liver Transplant and HPB surgery for 7 years. Dr. Halazun graduated from the University of Leeds, UK, and completed his basic surgical training in the Yorkshire School of Surgery from 2002 to 2007, with significant experience at St. James University Hospital, considered the largest and busiest teaching hospital in Europe. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral surgical research fellowship in 2008, general surgery residency in 2011, and a transplantation fellowship in 2013 at Columbia University Medical Center.

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Dr. Halazun's clinical practice encompasses the full spectrum of hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation, including living donor liver transplantation, advanced robotic liver surgery, and the management of liver and biliary malignancies. His scholarly work includes >90 peer-reviewed publications focused on developing predictive models for cancer recurrence for hepatobiliary malignancies, liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and transplantation outcomes research.

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Dr. Halazun has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Hepatobiliary and Transplant Fellow Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the Young Investigator Award from the American Transplant Society, and the Distinguished Fellow Research Award from the American Society of Transplantation.