Dr. Aman Kumar

Biography

Aman Kumar, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and a transplant surgeon at Boston Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India, and completed his residency at Sir J.J. Group Hospitals. Dr. Kumar further advanced his training with a post-doctoral fellowship in transplant surgery at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. Before joining Boston Medical Center, he worked as an attending surgeon at UNC, where he specialized in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants, along with executing laparoscopic donor nephrectomies and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeries. His research interests focus on total pancreatectomy autologous islet cell transplant (TPAIT), vascular staples used in donor surgeries, and organ donor referrals. Dr. Kumar has been active in clinical trials and has published peer-reviewed articles, contributing to national and international meetings. Moreover, he has organized surgical health check-up camps in rural areas of India from 2012 to 2019, providing free surgeries to underserved communities. His work emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare.

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