SASLT Excellence Award 2022

Prof. Mohammed Al Sebayel MBBS, MPH, DIF, FRCS

Professor of Surgery and Consultant Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Prof. Al Sebayel is currently working as a Professor of Surgery at  Al Maarefa University, Riyadh (KSA).

He established the Liver Transplant program at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh in 1993 and was known as the 1st program in the middle east. He also established the Hepatobiliary Unit at King Saud University and King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, reactivated and established the Liver Transplant Program at KFSH & RC Riyadh in March 2021 and started the living donor liver transplant program at KFSH & RC Riyadh in November 2022.

Prof. Al Sebayel was the former the Chairman of the Department of Liver & Small Bowel Transplantation & Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery  and was the Director of the Liver Transplant Program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC). He was also the Head of the Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery at King Khalid University Hospital and College of Medicine Riyadh and was Chairman of the Department of Hepatobiliary Sciences at King Fahad National Guard Hospital Riyadh.

He founded the National Donor Promotion Program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Pan Arab liver Transplant Society in 2006.