Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD

Biography

Koji Hashimoto, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of Liver Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus and Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. His areas of special interest are living donor liver transplantation, pediatric liver transplantation, liver transplantation using partial livers, liver malignancy, organ preservation, and transplant immunology.

Dr. Hashimoto has been involved in many basic and clinical research projects with more than 150 scientific research articles. He holds professional memberships nationally and internationally, including American Society of Transplant Surgeons, The Transplantation Society, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, and International Liver Transplantation Society. He also serves as a vice-chair of ILTS Pediatric Committee.

He is a graduate of Kyushu University School of Medicine in Japan. He completed his surgical residency at Kyushu University Hospital and a clinical fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation at Cleveland Clinic. After his surgical training, Dr. Hashimoto joined the Cleveland Clinic Liver Transplant Program as a full-time transplant surgeon. He received the Cowan Family Endowed Chair in Living Donor Liver Transplantation in 2016. Dr. Hashimoto's surgical career continued at Cleveland Clinic as the Director of Living Donor Liver Transplantation and Pediatric Liver Transplantation from 2017 to 2022.