Prof Dr. Dieter C. Broering | Robotic Surgery | Best Researcher Award

King Fasial Specialist Hospital and Research Center Riyadh | Saudi Arabia

Publication Profile

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Prof. Dr. Dieter C. Broering 🌍🦠

🏅 Summary

Prof. Dr. Dieter C. Broering is a leading expert in organ transplantation with a focus on robotic transplant surgery. He serves as the Executive Director of the Organ Transplant Center of Excellence at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center and as a Professor of Surgery at Alfaisal University in Riyadh. With a career spanning several decades, Prof. Broering has made groundbreaking advancements, particularly in robotic transplant surgery and split liver transplantation. He has performed over 1,600 robotic procedures and contributed to more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, positioning Saudi Arabia at the global forefront of these innovations. His leadership in transplantation has improved surgical techniques and patient outcomes worldwide.

🎓 Academic Background

• MD – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany (1990)
• PD – Habilitation, University of Hamburg, Germany (2005)
• PhD in Clinical Hepatology – Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary (2005)

🏥 Clinical & Academic Appointments

• 2020 – Present: Executive Director, Organ Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh
• 2011 – Present: Professor of Surgery, Alfaisal University
• 2024: Visiting Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• 2024: Visiting Professor, University of Naples, Italy
• 2010 – 2020: Director, Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital

💼 Management Expertise

• Leadership: Executive Director of the Organ Transplant Center, managing a team of 700+ staff
• Research Oversight: Head of Transplantation Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital
• Committee Chair: M&M, Surgical Clerkship, and Transplant Research Committees
• Strategic Planning: Involved in shaping policies and advancing robotic surgery and liver transplant initiatives

🌍 International Collaborations

• Established living liver donation programs in Rotterdam and Budapest
• Developed children’s liver transplant program in Riyadh
• Pioneered minimally invasive donor nephrectomy with Erasmus University Rotterdam

💡 Funded Research Projects

• DFG-Project on Living Donations: €60,000 funding for psychosocial study
• Therapy Optimization in Liver Transplant: €350,000 phase 4 clinical trial
• Liver Preservation Techniques Study: Focused on preservation with HTK solution
• International Liver Transplant Research Funding: €9 million for transplantation research
• Organ Transplant Registry Support: €408,000 for enhancing transplant data infrastructure

🏆 Awards & Honors

• Presentation Award: Association of Northwest German Surgeons (2003)
• ILTS Travel Award: 11th Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society (2005)
• AST Travel Award: American Society of Transplantation Congress (2005)
• Best Research Paper: Surgical Research Day, KFSH&RC-Riyadh (2018)
• Second Prize: Best Research Paper, Surgical Research Day, KFSH&RC-Riyadh (2019)

🌐 Professional Memberships

• Vice President, International Society of Liver Surgeons (ISLS)
• Council Member, International Living Donor Liver Transplant Group (iLDLT)
• American College of Surgeons (ACS)
• European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)
• European Liver Transplantation Association (ELITA)

🔬 Key Research Areas

• Living Donor Liver Transplantation
• Robotic Transplant Surgery
• Pediatric Liver Transplantation
• Surgical Innovation and Technique Refinement
• Transplant Immunology and Post-Transplant Management

📊 Publications & Citation Metrics

• Journal Impact Factor (IF): 1,178
• Peer-Reviewed Publications: 300+
• Citations: 9,000+
• H-Index: 50
• i10-index: 138

Publication Top Notes

Decoding the Clavien-Dindo Classification: Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Novel Tool to Grade Postoperative Complications

• • Authors: Sebastian Manuel Staubli, Harriet Louise Walker, Fuat Hakan Saner, Michael D. Spiro, D. Aristotle Raptis
  • Journal: Annals of Surgery 🏥
  • Year: 2025 🗓️

Tri-modality Therapy in Esophageal Carcinoma is at a Crossroad

• • Authors: Yogesh Kumar Vashist, Srijan Shukla, Ehab H. Abufarhaneh, Dieter Clemens Bröering, Thammineedi Subramanyeshwar Rao
  • Journal: Annals of Surgical Oncology 🦠
  • Year: 2025 🗓️

Isolated microhematuria in potential kidney donors: evaluating kidney biopsy findings with dipstick urinalysis and urine microscopy results

• • Authors: Ehab A. Hammad, Dalia Abdullah Obeid, Dieter Clemens Bröering, Nancy Jacob, Tariq Zulfiquar Ali
  • Journal: Clinical Kidney Journal 💉
  • Year: 2025 🗓️

Molecular engineering of a fluorescent probe for highly efficient detection of human serum albumin in biological fluid

• • Authors: Raja Chinnappan, Tanveer Ahmad Mir, Shanmugam Easwaramoorthi, Abdullah Mohammed Assiri, Dieter Clemens Bröering
  • Journal: Sensors International 🔬
  • Year: 2025 🗓️

Outcomes of Fully Robotic Recipient Living Donor Liver Transplant in Relation to the Open Approach

• • Authors: Dieter Clemens Bröering, Yasser Mahmoud Elsheikh, M. M. Malagò, Markus Ulrich Boehnert, D. Aristotle Raptis
  • Journal: Transplantation 💉
  • Year: 2024 🗓️

Advanced strategies for intensive care management of acute liver failure

• • Authors: Fuat Hakan Saner, Ecaterina Scarlatescu, Andrew K. Gold, D. Aristotle Raptis, Dmitri S. Bezinover
  • Journal: Bailliere’s Best Practice and Research in Clinical Gastroenterology 🏥
  • Year: 2024 🗓️

Outcomes of Adult Right Graft Living Donor Liver Transplantation Utilizing the Robotic Platform-integrated Real-time Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Cholangiography Compared to the Open Approach

• • Authors: D. Aristotle Raptis, Yogesh Kumar Vashist, Rugved V. Kulkarni, M. M. Malagò, Dieter Clemens Bröering
  • Journal: Annals of Surgery 🏥
  • Year: 2024 🗓️

Revolutionizing Organ Transplantation with Robotic Surgery

• • Authors: Dieter Clemens Bröering, D. Aristotle Raptis, M. M. Malagò, Pierre Alain Clavien
  • Journal: Annals of Surgery 🏥
  • Year: 2024 🗓️

Robotic living donor hepatectomy is associated with superior outcomes for both the donor and the recipient compared with laparoscopic or open – A single-center prospective registry study of 3448 cases

• • Authors: D. Aristotle Raptis, Yasser Mahmoud Elsheikh, Yasir Alnemary, Leen Alshibi, Sami A. Kareem
  • Journal: American Journal of Transplantation 💉
  • Year: 2024 🗓️

Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt for Budd–Chiari Syndrome: A Single-Centre Experience

• • Authors: Faisal Joueidi, Amnah Alhanaee, Hamad Abdulla Alsuhaibani, Dieter Clemens Bröering, Khalid Ibrahim Bzeizi
  • Journal: Journal of Clinical Medicine 💉
  • Year: 2024 🗓️