Mr Abdul Rahman Hakeem

Mr Abdul Rahman Hakeem has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers. H-index 31. You can view his Research Gate here.

Preventing Small for Size Syndrome in Living Donor Liver Transplantation – Guidelines from the ILTS/iLDLT/LTSI Consensus Conference. Transplantation 2023;107(10):2203-2215. Hakeem A, Mathew JS, Vinaixa C, Mazzola A, Alconchel F, Yoon YI, Testa G, Selzner N, Sarin SK, Lee KW, Soin A, Pomposelli J, Menon K, Goyal N, Kota V, Abu-Gazala S, Rodriguez-Davalos M, Rajalingam R, Kapoor D, Durand F, Kamath P, Jothimani D, Sudhindran S, Vij V, Yoshizumi T, Egawa H, Lerut J, Broering DC, Berenguer M, Cattral M, Clavien PA, Chen CL, Shah S, Zhu ZJ, Ascher N, Bhangui P, Rammohan A, Emond J, Rela M.

Impact of Asian and black donor and recipient ethnicity on the outcomes after deceased donor kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom. Transplant International 2024; 37:12605. Hakeem A, Asthana S, Johnson R, Brown C, Ahmad N.

The Role of Liver Transplant for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: the UK NHSBT Liver Advisory Group Pilot Programme. Hakeem A, Isaac J, Thorburn D, Heaton N, Prasad R, on behalf of the NHSBT Liver Transplantation for Cholangiocarcinoma Fixed Term Working Group (Walmsley Q, Morement H, Watson S, Manas D, Bridgewater J, Hawkins M, Radhakrishna G, Dasari B, Attia M, Adair A, Gibbs P, Sharma D, Oppong K, Albazaz R, Malik H, Snowdon V, Aluvihare V, Crellin A, Valle J, Treanor D, Rushbrook S). Hepatoma Research 2023; 9(38).

Articles

Black patients ‘less likely to have successful kidney transplants’ than white people Telegraph, 2021

Videos

Problems with Diabetes | Dr. Abdul Rahman Hakeem

Pre-operative assessment for pancreas transplant | Dr. Abdul Rahman Hakeem

• Excellence in Education Award, NHSBT/BTS UK Awards for Excellence in Organ & Tissue Donation, Retrieval and Transplantation 2025
• King’s College Hospital Green Shoots Award, King’s College Hospital 2024-2025
• The CEED “Commending Excellence Every Day” Award, Leeds Teaching Hospitals 2023
• ‘Young Investigator Award’, International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) 2022
• ‘Young Investigator Award’, Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSICON) 2019
• ‘Young Investigator Award’, European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) 2017
• ‘Chief Resident’ at Cambridge University Hospital 2017-2018. This is a mini-MBA (Master of Business Administration) programme by the prestigious Cambridge Judge Business School and the University of Cambridge. He represented the junior doctors on the Education and Study Leave committees and had a managerial role in the surgical division.

Treatments and diagnostics

• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with intra-operative cholangiogram
• Cholecystectomy with exploration of common bile duct
• Cholecystectomy (including mini or sub-total cholecystectomy)
• Diagnostic laparoscopy (including any biopsy)
• Resection of liver tumour(s)
• Laparoscopic resection of liver
• Partial hepatectomy (left hepatectomy or resection of up to three
• segments) +/- cholecystectomy
• Hemihepatectomy (resection of four or more segments) +/- cholecystectomy
• Primary repair of inguinal hernia
• Primary repair of inguinal hernia – bilateral
• Repair of inguinal hernia requiring removal of previously inserted mesh
• Repair of recurrent inguinal hernia
• Primary repair of femoral hernia
• Repair of femoral hernia requiring removal of previously inserted mesh
• Repair of recurrent femoral hernia
• Repair of umbilical/paraumbilical hernia (irrespective of age)
• Repair of umbilical/paraumbilical hernia requiring removal of previously inserted mesh
• Open repair of incisional hernia not requiring mesh
• Laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia not requiring mesh
• Repair of recurrent incisional hernia not requiring mesh
• Repair of recurrent incisional hernia requiring mesh
• Repair of recurrent incisional hernia requiring removal of previously inserted mesh
• Excision of skin lesions, lumps and bumps
• Debridement and primary suture of skin
• Drainage of lesion of skin (including abscess)
• Excision of lesion of pancreas
• Open drainage of lesion of pancreas
• Liver transplant – living donor liver transplant

Conditions

• Gallstones
• Acute cholecystitis
• Chronic cholecystitis
• Gallbladder polyps
• Gallstone pancreatitis
• Biliary dyskinesia
• Choledocholithiasis (common bile duct stones)
• Biliary obstruction / jaundice
• Cholangitis
• Difficult gallbladder (severe inflammation / fibrosis)
• Unexplained liver lesions
• Diffuse liver disease requiring biopsy
• Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
• Liver metastases (secondary cancer)
• Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
• Benign liver tumours (adenoma, haemangioma, FNH, cystadenoma)
• Inguinal hernia
• Recurrent inguinal hernia
• Femoral hernia
• Recurrent femoral hernia
• Umbilical hernia
• Paraumbilical hernia
• Incisional hernia
• Recurrent incisional hernia
• Mesh-related complications (infection, intolerance, recurrence)
• Benign skin lesions (cysts, lipomas, dermatofibromas)
• Suspicious pigmented skin lesions / skin cancers
• Abscesses (skin, subcutaneous, pilonidal, perianal)
• Traumatic or infected skin wounds
• Pancreatic cysts / pseudocysts
• Benign pancreatic tumours (e.g. neuroendocrine tumours, cystadenomas)
• Walled-off pancreatic necrosis
• End-stage liver disease (cirrhosis: viral hepatitis, alcohol, NASH, autoimmune, metabolic)
• Acute liver failure
• Hepatocellular carcinoma within transplant criteria

• Surgical Mentor/Personal Tutor King’s College London, London
• Cutting Edge Mentor University of Leeds Mentorship Programme, Leeds

• Consultant Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
• Education Lead for Liver Transplant Surgery, Institute of Liver Studies King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
• Honorary Senior Lecturer and Adjunct King’s College London
• Honorary Senior Lecturer University of Leeds
• Senior Lecturer in XR and Surgical Innovation with Global Health and Emerging Technologies Brighton and Sussex Medical School

• Qualified 2005
• FACS (American College of Surgeons) 2022
• CCT (General & Transplant Surgery – Cambridge Rotation) 2019
• FEBS (European Diploma in Transplant Surgery, Rome) 2018
• PhD (Human Liver Bioengineering, University of Leeds) 2018
• FRCS (Royal College of Surgeons of England) 2017
• SERF (Surgical Education Research Fellowship, American Surgical Education) 2012
• MRCSEd (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) 2008
• MBBS (Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R Medical University, India) 2005