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UCHealth Transplant Surgery - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct 7th Floor, Aurora, CO 80045

720-848-0833

Phillipe Abreu, MD, PhD, MBA, MSc, FACS

Transplant Surgery

Board Certified

Locations

Practice Locations

UCHealth Transplant Surgery - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct, 7th Floor
Aurora, CO 80045

720-848-0833

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Provider Expertise

Clinical Interest for Patients

Dedicated to transplantation for oncological diseases and advancing Robotic Surgery applied to Transplantation of the Liver, Kidney, and Pancreas.


Care Philosophy

Dr. Abreu's clinical expertise spans liver transplant oncology, focusing on liver cancer treatments through transplantation and utilizing minimally invasive robotic surgery for complex abdominal procedures. Dr. Abreu's research interests include the treatment of oncologic patients with transplantation, organ preservation, and innovative surgical technologies including robotic transplantation.


Specialties

  • Complex General Surgical Oncology
  • Transplant Surgery
  • Surgery

Conditions & Treatments

  • Digestive System

    Abnormal liver enzymes, Acute Liver Failure, Alagille Syndrome, Alcohol-associated liver disease, Autoimmune hepatitis, Benign Liver Tumors, Biliary Atresia, Biliary Surgery, Choledochal Cysts, Chronic Pancreatitis, Cirrhosis, Cirrhosis and its complications including ascites, variceal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, and hepatocellular carcinoma, End-stage Liver Failure, Fatty Liver Disease, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Minimally Invasive Services, Hepatology (Liver Disorders), Intestinal Failure / Short Bowel Syndrome, Liver Cysts, Liver Metastases, Liver Resection, Liver transplant evaluations, Long-term follow-up of liver transplant recipients, Motility disorders, Pancreas Surgery, Primary biliary cholangitis, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Primary sclerosing cholangitis, Wilson Disease

  • Kidneys and Urinary System

    Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, End-stage Renal Failure, Kidney Disease, Kidney Failure, Peritoneal Dialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Polycystic Kidney Disease

  • Organ Transplant

    Kidney transplant, Liver transplant, Living Donor Kidney Transplant, Living Donor Liver Transplant, Portal Vein Embolization, Renal Auto transplant, Robotic High BMI Kidney Transplant, Robotic Living Donor Liver Transplant, Transplant Evaluation

  • Surgery

    Complex Abdominal/Open, Kidney Transplant, Laparoscopic, Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, Liver Transplant, Living Kidney Donation, Living Liver Donation, Major Liver (Hepatobiliary), Pancreas Transplant, Rex Shunt or Meso-portal Shunt, Robotic, Transplant, Urologic

  • Cancers

    Bile Duct Cancer, Biliary Cancer, Cancer Surgery, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Kidney Cancer, Liver Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer

Interests & Activities

Personal Interests

I am a motorcycle roadtrip addicted.


Volunteer Activities

I have performed over 150 surgeries in Haiti over 8 volunteer missions.


Education & Training

Medical Schools

MD, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil (2012)


Graduate Schools

MSc, Santa Casa de Sao Paulo. Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas, Brazil (2017)

PhD, Santa Casa de Sao Paulo. Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas, Brazil (2020)

MBA, University of Tennessee - Knoxville (2023)


Internships

Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (2013)


Residency Program

Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (2014)


Fellowships

Universidade Federal do Parana. Erasto Gaerner Cancer Center (2018)

University of Miami. Jackson Memorial Hospital (2023)

University of Miami. Jackson Memorial Hospital (2022)

University of Toronto (2019)

Professional Memberships

American College of Surgeons, FACS


American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, Member


American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Certified Member


Brazilian College of Surgeons, TCBC


Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology, TSBCO


Clinical Robotic Surgery Association, Member


International Liver Transplant Society, Member


Research & Grants

Research Interests for Patients

Transplant Oncology, Transplant Robotic Surgery

information for referring providers

Referral Contact Phone

720-848-0833

Referral Contact Fax

720-848-0841

Clinical Interests for Referring Providers

Transplant Oncology, Transplant Robotics.

Research Interest for Referring Providers

Transplant Oncology, Transplant Robotic Surgery