Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Surgery-Transplant

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor of Surgery

Teaching

Publications

• Moore HB, Bababekov YJ, Pomposelli JJ, Adams MA, Crouch C, Yoeli D, Choudhury RA, Ferrell T, Burton JR, Pomfret EA, Nydam TL. The vexing triad of obesity, alcohol, and coagulopathy predicts the need for multiple operations in liver transplantation. Am J Surg. 2022 Jul;224(1 Pt A):69-74. PubMed PMID: 35227491
• Bababekov YJ, Stapleton SM, Hashimoto DA, Witkowski ER, Haynes AB, Goldstein AM, Mullen JT, Isselbacher EM, Lillemoe KD, Chang DC. Open innovation facilitates department-wide engagement in quality improvement: experience from the Massachusetts General Hospital. Surg Endosc. 2021 Oct;35(10):5441-5449. PubMed PMID: 33033914
• Bababekov YJ, Hung YC, Chang DC, Rickert CG, Adler JT, Bethea E, Pomfret EA, Pomposelli JJ, Yeh H. Do Social Determinants Define "Too Sick" to Transplant in Patients With End-stage Liver Disease?. Transplantation. 2020 Feb;104(2):280-284. PubMed PMID: 31335769
• Hung YC, Williams JE, Bababekov YJ, Rickert CG, Chang DC, Yeh H. Surgeon crossover between pediatric and adult centers is associated with decreased rate of loss to follow-up among adolescent renal transplantation recipients. Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Nov;23(7):e13547. PubMed PMID: 31328860
• Bababekov YJ, Hung YC, Rickert CG, Njoku FC, Cao B, Adler JT, Brega AG, Pomposelli JJ, Chang DC, Yeh H. Health Literacy Burden Is Associated With Access to Liver Transplantation. Transplantation. 2019 Mar;103(3):522-528. PubMed PMID: 30431496
• Costentin CE, Bababekov YJ, Zhu AX, Yeh H. Is It Time to Reconsider the Milan Criteria for Selecting Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma for Deceased-Donor Liver Transplantation?. Hepatology. 2019 Mar;69(3):1324-1336. PubMed PMID: 30229978