Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH

Professional Titles

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Recognitions

• Bedside Manner Award, University of Colorado Hospital (2023)

Publications

• Bababekov YJ, Goncalves C, Ha AH, Maksimuk TE, Malamon JS, Yule A, Chen DY, Hoffman JRH, Schold JD, Pomfret EA, Kaplan B, Pomposelli JJ. Managing Expectations of Prolonged Warm Ischemia Time: A Calculator to Predict Donation After Circulatory Death Donor Progression to Circulatory Death Within 30 Min. Clin Transplant. 2025 Oct;39(10):e70336. PubMed PMID: 41051386
• Matevish LE, Guo J, Bababekov YJ, Shubin AD, Goldaracena N, Pedersen MR, Mufti AR, Pomposelli JJ, Hanish SI, Vagefi PA, Patel MS. The path to liver transplantation for low MELD patients: A comparative analysis of deceased and living donor grafts in the perfusion technology era. Am J Surg. 2025 Oct;248:116512. PubMed PMID: 40651281
• Baimas-George M, Choudhury R, Napoli MD, Bashian E, Ha A, Grewal H, Bababekov Y, Justison G, Cain MT, Pomposelli JJ, Pomfret EA, Hoffman J, Nydam TL. Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion: Technical Tips for Abdominal Transplant Surgeons. Transplant Proc. 2025 Jul-Aug;57(6):966-974. PubMed PMID: 40615232
• Jiang JG, Napoli MD, Bababekov YJ, Baimas-George M, Wachs M. Salvage of a Liver Allograft From Procurement Injury: A Case Report on the Reconstruction of the Suprahepatic Inferior Vena Cava With Donor Iliac Vein. Transplant Proc. 2025 Apr;57(3):468-471. PubMed PMID: 40016042
• Hansen KS and Bababekov YJ. Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: State of the Art and a Biodesign Framework for Adoption. 2025. Current Transplantation Reports. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:278749406
• Bakhtiyar SS, Maksimuk TE, Gutowski J, Park SY, Cain MT, Rove JY, Reece TB, Cleveland JC Jr, Pomposelli JJ, Bababekov YJ, Nydam TL, Schold JD, Pomfret EA, Hoffman JRH. Association of procurement technique with organ yield and cost following donation after circulatory death. Am J Transplant. 2024 Oct;24(10):1803-1815. PubMed PMID: 38521350
• Rodriguez IE, Asher ZP, Klingenberg K, Wright FL, Nydam TL, Adams MA, Bababekov YJ, Peltz E, Smith JW, Saben JL, Kennealey P, Pomposelli JJ, Pomfret EA, Moore HB. Phase I clinical trial of the feasibility and safety of direct peritoneal resuscitation in liver transplantation. Am J Surg. 2024 Dec;238:115815. PubMed PMID: 39003094
• Croome K, Bababekov Y, Brubaker A, Montenovo M, Mao S, Sellers M, Foley D, Pomfret E, Abt P. American Society of Transplant Surgeons Normothermic Regional Perfusion Standards: Abdominal. Transplantation. 2024 Aug 1;108(8):1660-1668. PubMed PMID: 39012956
• Rouhi AD, Choudhury RA, Hoeltzel GD, Ghanem YK, Bababekov YJ, Suarez-Pierre A, Yule A, Vigneshwar NG, Williams NN, Dumon KR, Nydam TL. Ventricular Remodeling Following Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Decreases Need for Heart Transplantation: A Predictive Model. Obes Surg. 2023 Nov 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38017330
• Bababekov YJ, Pomfret EA. Ethical Considerations for Simultaneous Versus Sequential Liver-Kidney Donation from the Same Live Donor: Donor(s) Selection is Key. Gastroenterology. 2023 Nov 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37977309
• Schold JD, Mohan S, Jackson WE, Stites E, Burton JR, Bababekov YJ, Saben JL, Pomposelli JJ, Pomfret EA, Kaplan B. Differential in Kidney Graft Years Based on Solitary Kidney, Simultaneous Liver-Kidney, and Kidney after Liver Transplants. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Nov 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37962880
• Bababekov YJ, Chen YW, Udelsman BV, Camer SJ, Rand FF, Chang DC. Unexpected Successes: Can We Identify Positive Deviance in Surgery?. Ann Surg Open. 2023 Mar;4(1):e233. PubMed PMID: 37600894
• Moore HB, Saben J, Rodriguez I, Bababekov YJ, Pomposelli JJ, Yoeli D, Ferrell T, Adams MA, Pshak TJ, Kaplan B, Pomfret EA, Nydam TL. Postoperative fibrinolytic resistance is associated with early allograft dysfunction in liver transplantation: A prospective observational study. Liver Transpl. 2023 Jul 1;29(7):724-734. PubMed PMID: 36749288
• 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
• 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

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

• Surgery, Board Certification
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Certificate (0001)
• American Board of Surgery, Board Certification (0001)

• Organ Transplant - Kidney transplant
• Organ Transplant
• Organ Transplant - Liver transplant
• Organ Transplant - Living Donor Kidney Transplant
• Organ Transplant - Living Donor Liver Transplant
• Cancers
• Cancers - Cancer Surgery
• Digestive System - Biliary Surgery
• Digestive System
• Digestive System - Hepatology (Liver Disorders)
• Digestive System - Hernia
• Digestive System - Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Kidneys and Urinary System - Kidney Failure
• Kidneys and Urinary System
• Surgery - Laparoscopic Surgery
• Surgery
• Surgery - Liver Transplant Surgery
• Surgery - Living Kidney Donation
• Surgery - Living Liver Donation
• Surgery - Major Liver Surgery (Hepatobiliary)
• Surgery - Pancreas Transplant Surgery
• Surgery - Transplant Surgery
• Digestive System - Benign Liver Tumors
• Digestive System - Choledochal Cysts
• Digestive System - Cirrhosis and its complications including ascites, variceal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, and hepatocellular carcinoma
• Digestive System - End-stage Liver Failure
• Digestive System - Hepatobiliary and Minimally Invasive Services
• Digestive System - Liver Cysts
• Digestive System - Liver Metastases
• Digestive System - Liver Resection
• Digestive System - Liver transplant evaluations
• Surgery - Complex Abdominal/Open Surgery
• Surgery - Kidney Transplant Surgery
• Surgery - Rex Shunt or Meso-portal Shunt
• Surgery - Robotic Surgery
• Cancers - Bile Duct Cancer
• Cancers - Biliary Cancer
• Cancers - Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Cancers - Liver Cancer