Tomoaki Kato, MD
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Overview
Tomoaki Kato, MD, is a noted pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Dr. Kato is Surgical Director of Adult and Pediatric Liver and Intestinal Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Kato is known for unique and innovative surgeries for adults and children, including a six-organ transplant; a procedure called APOLT (auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation) that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary and the first successful human partial bladder transplantation involving the transplant of two kidneys together with ureters connected to a patch of the donor bladder. In a highly publicized case, he led the first reported removal and re-implantation, or auto-transplantation, of six organs to excise a hard-to-reach abdominal tumor.
Previously the director of pediatric liver and gastrointestinal transplant and professor of clinical surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Kato received his medical degree from the Osaka University Medical School in Japan and received his residency training in surgery at Osaka University Hospital and Itami City Hospital in Hyogo, Japan. He completed a clinical fellowship in transplantation at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, Florida, where he was subsequently appointed to the surgical faculty in 1997, and promoted to full professor in 2007. He served as a surgeon and senior leader of the liver and transplantation center at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, beginning in 1997, and at University of Miami Hospital (previously Cedars Medical Center), beginning in 2004. Dr. Kato is a member of numerous professional and honorary organizations, and the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Resources
- For more information, visit the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
- If you need assistance in Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), please call 646-317-6325 or, visit the Columbia Liver Asian Outreach Office (English | Mandarin
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Organ Transplantation
- Abdominal Wall Transplantation
- Auto Transplantation
- Auxiliary Transplant
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Ex-Vivo Resection
- Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (Fibrolamellar HCC)
- Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Intestinal Transplant
- Liver Transplant
- Liver Transplant, Pediatric
- Liver Transplantation
- Multivisceral Transplantation
- Organ Transplant, Pediatric
- Pediatric Liver Cancer
- Sarcoma
- Small Bowel Resection
- Small Bowel Transplant, Pediatric
- Small Bowel Transplantation
- Surgical Oncology
Academic Appointments
- Edwin C. and Anne K. Weiskopf Professor of Surgical Oncology
Administrative Titles
- Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Surgical Director, Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation
- Executive Director of the Columbia Transplant Initiative
- Clinical Director of Transplant Services at NYP/CUIMC
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
Languages
- Japanese
Gender
- Male
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Location(s)
Insurance Accepted
Affinity Health Plan
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
Amida Care
- Special Needs
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- ConnectiCare
- EPO
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- EPO
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
Fidelis Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Healthfirst
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Leaf (Exchange)
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Local 1199
- Local 1199
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Multiplan
- Multiplan
MVP Health Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Columbia University Employee Plan
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid (Community Plan)
- Medicare Managed Care
- Oxford Freedom
- Oxford HMO
- Oxford Liberty
- POS
- PPO
WellCare
- Medicaid Managed Care
World Trade Center Health Plan
- World Trade Center Health Plan
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- Osaka University, Japan
- Residency: 1995 Itami City Hospital, Hyogo, Japan
- Fellowship: University of Miami Hospital
Committees, Societies, Councils
- American Society for Transplant Surgeons
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American Association of Study for Liver Disease
- American College of Surgeon
- American Surgical Association
- The Transplant Society
- The Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association
- The International Pediatric Transplant Association
- The Society of University Surgeons
- ASTS business committee
- Japan Surgical Society
- Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery
- Japan Society of Cancer Chemotherapy
Honors & Awards
- 2009 - 2020: New York Magazine's Best Doctors
- 2015: Global Alumni Fellow, Osaka University
- 2014: Nobility in Science Award, Sarcoma Foundation of Americas
- 2007: Humanitarian of the Year, Consulate General of Israel in Miami
Research
Research Interests
- Immune tolerance
- Monitoring of intestinal rejection
- Outcomes research for intestinal transplant, Hepatitis C, Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Transplant Immunology
Selected Publications
- Yu YD, Hwang R, Halazun KJ, Griesemer A, Kato T, Emond J, Samstein B. Whose Liver Is It Anyway? Two Centers Participating in One Living Donor Transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2019 Nov;25(11):1710-1713. doi: 10.1002/lt.25596. Epub 2019 Aug 21. PMID: 31273912.
- Ravella S, Liou P, Velasco M, Harrison A, Kato T, Martinez M. Nutritional Challenges in Patients After Intestinal Autotransplantation and Ex Vivo Surgery. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2019 Feb;43(2):245-251. doi: 10.1002/jpen.1415. Epub 2018 Jul 20. PMID: 30028516.
- Fu J, Zuber J, Martinez M, Shonts B, Obradovic A, Wang H, Lau SP, Xia A, Waffarn EE, Frangaj K, Savage TM, Simpson MT, Yang S, Guo XV, Miron M, Senda T, Rogers K, Rahman A, Ho SH, Shen Y, Griesemer A, Farber DL, Kato T, Sykes M. Human Intestinal Allografts Contain Functional Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells that Are Maintained by a Circulating Pool. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 Feb 7;24(2):227-239.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2018.11.007. Epub 2018 Nov 29. PMID: 30503142; PMCID: PMC6398344.
- Samstein B, Griesemer A, Halazun K, Kato T, Guarrera JV, Cherqui D, Emond JC. Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomies: Ready for Widespread Adoption? Ann Surg 2018;268:602-609
- Przybyszewski EM, Verna EC, Lobritto SJ, Martinez M, Vittorio JM, Fox AN, Samstein B, Kato T, Griesemer AD, Emond JC. Durable Clinical and Immunologic Advantage of Living Donor Liver Transplantation in Children. Transplantation 2018;102:953-960
- Chaudhry SG, Bentley-Hibbert S, Stern J, Lobritto S, Martinez M, Vittorio J, Halazun KJ, Lee HT, Emond J, Kato T, Samstein B, Griesemer A. Growth of liver allografts over time in pediatric transplant recipients. Pediatr Transplant 2018;22:e13104
- Halazun KJ, Rana AA, Fortune B, Quillin III RC, Verna EC, Samstein B, Guarrera JV, Kato T, Griesemer AD, Fox A, Brown Jr RS, Emond JC. No country for old livers? Examining and optimizing the utilization of elderly liver grafts. Am J Transplant 2018;18:669-678
- Elnaggar AS, Griesemer AD, Bentley?Hibbert S, Brown Jr RS, Martinez M, Lobritto SJ, Kato T, Emond JC. Liver atrophy and regeneration in noncirrhotic portal vein thrombosis: Effect of surgical shunts. Liver Transpl 2018;24:881-887
- Carpenter DJ, Granot T, Matsuoka N, Senda T, Kumar BV, Thome JJC, Gordon CL, Miron M, Weiner J, Connors T, Lerner H, Friedman A, Kato T, Griesemer AD, Farber DL. Human immunology studies using organ donors: Impact of clinical variations on immune parameters in tissues and circulation. Am J Transplant 2018;18:74-88
- Kato Y, Greisemer AD, Wu A, Sondemeijer H, Weiner JI, Duran-Struuck R, Martinez M, Slate AR, Romanov A, Lefkowitch JH, Sukes M, Kato T*. Novel H-shunt venovenous bypass for liver transplantation in cynomolgus macaques. Comparative Medicine 2017;67:436-441
- Weiner J, Zuber J, Shonts B, Yang S, Fu J, Martinez M, Farber D, Kato T, Sykes M. Long-Term Persistence of Innate Lymphoid Cells in the Gut After Intestinal Transplantation. Transplantation 2017; 101: 2449-2454
- Halazun KJ, Quillin RC, Rosenblatt R, Bongu A, Griesemer AS, Kato T, Smith C, Michelassi F, Guarrera JV, Samstein B, Brown RS, Emond JC. Ann Surg 2017;266:441-449
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov
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