Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute: Anthony Sebastian, M.D.

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Anthony Sebastian, M.D., FRCS, FACS
Chief, Abdominal Transplant Surgery Division

Dr. Anthony Sebastian is chief of the abdominal transplant surgery division. He is a transplant surgeon who runs the clinical division of liver and pancreas transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at the Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City. He also is a clinical associate professor of surgery at the University Of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Tulsa.

He completed his formal American Society of Transplant Surgeons accredited multi-organ transplant fellowship in liver, kidney and pancreas transplant surgery from the world-renowned Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

He joined INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in 1995, establishing and directing the first and only successful pancreas transplant program for the treatment of type I diabetes mellitus in Oklahoma.

Dr. Sebastian was the member of the surgical team that performed the FIRST in-situ split liver transplant in the United States in 1996 where one donor liver was split and given to two patients with liver failure. He has subsequently performed many such complicated procedures in adults and children. He was intricately involved in living donor liver transplants during the early 1990s while at Mount Sinai Medical Center and subsequently was part of the team that successfully performed live liver donor surgery from adult to child liver transplants at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in 1995 -1997.

He has vast surgical experience in all aspects of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, performing complicated bile duct surgery, major liver resections for liver cancer and the management of pancreatic cancer.

He is responsible for the training of general surgery residents in hepatobiliary and transplant surgery from the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa during their posting to the abdominal transplant division.

He is the current president of Lifeshare of Oklahoma, and is the UNOS Region IV representative for the Liver committee and the Nominating committee. He is on the medical advisory board to pharmaceutical companies involved in immunesuppression and is on the national speakers bureau involved in educating transplant programs around the country in the art of immune suppression following transplantation.

Dr. Sebastian’s special interest is in the field of immunesuppression. He is a leader in the field of global immune monitoring that is increasingly used in transplant patient care. He is involved in clinical research and has published, lectured and presented papers at national and international meetings. He is a fellow of the International College of Surgeons, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
INTEGRIS Baptist
Medical Center
3300 N.W. Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK 73112

Main Number
(405) 949-3349

Toll-free
1 (800) 991-3349