Tomoaki Kato, MD

Liver & Abdominal Transplant Surgery

(212) 305-0914

Specialties

General Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Transplant Surgery, Liver & Abdominal Transplant Surgery, more

Leadership

Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery | more

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Locations and Appointments

New Patients

Treats Children

Accepts Virtual Visits

CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic

622 West 168th Street

Floor 14

New York, NY 10032

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(212) 305-0914

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Insurances Accepted

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Aetna Signature Administrators
Medicare Managed Care
HMO
PPO
POS
EPO
NY Signature
Student Health

Essential Plan
Medicaid Managed Care

Special Needs

Medicare Managed Care
PPO
HMO
Great West (National)
EPO
POS

PPO
Medicare Managed Care

Select Care (Exchange)
Vytra
EPO
Medicare Managed Care
HMO
PPO
POS
ConnectiCare
Essential Plan
Medicaid Managed Care

Medicaid Managed Care
Child/Family Health Plus
Essential Plan

PPO
Medicare Managed Care
HMO
EPO

Essential Plan
Medicaid Managed Care
Medicare Managed Care
Child/Family Health Plus

Leaf (Exchange)
Medicaid Managed Care
Child/Family Health Plus
Medicare Managed Care

Medicare Managed Care

Local 1199

MagnaCare

Traditional Medicare
Railroad

Multiplan

HMO
Essential Plan
Child/Family Health Plus
Medicaid Managed Care

Special Needs

HMO
POS
PPO
Columbia University Employee Plan
Empire Plan
Compass (Exchange)
Oxford Liberty
Oxford Freedom
Oxford HMO
Medicare Managed Care
Medicaid (Community Plan)

SelectHealth
Medicare Managed Care
Special Needs

Medicaid Managed Care
Medicare Managed Care

World Trade Center Health Plan

About Tomoaki Kato, MD

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.

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