Luo Yi

Specializes in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgical treatment of liver tumors in both adults and children, as well as liver transplantation for various end-stage liver diseases; possesses extensive experience in laparoscopic liver surgery and living-donor liver transplantation.

Since 2014, he has served as the Director of the Liver Surgery Ward, overseeing clinical operations at the Pediatric Liver Surgery Ward. He possesses internationally advanced expertise in living-donor liver transplantation procedures for both donors and recipients, as well as in the laparoscopic donor liver harvesting technique; he has mastered the fluorescence-guided full-laparoscopic donor liver harvesting procedure and has organized multiple national training workshops and live-streamed demonstration sessions. Key surgeons from internationally renowned transplantation centers—including King's College Hospital (UK), Tokyo Women and Children's Hospital (Japan), Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Taiwan), Mary Hospital (Hong Kong), and the University Malaya Hospital—have visited him to exchange insights on laparoscopic surgical techniques.

At the 2022 International Society for Living Donor Liver Transplantation (iLDLT) Annual Meeting, he was invited as the lead surgeon for a global live-streamed demonstration of living-donor liver transplantation surgery. To date, he has led the performance of over 2,000 various liver resection surgeries, including more than 400 full-laparoscopic and robotic liver resection cases; he has also performed over 600 adult and pediatric liver transplantation surgeries. He successfully conducted the world's smallest pediatric liver transplantation combined with pancreaticoduodenectomy; he further developed an improved portal vein anastomosis technique for pediatric and young infant whole-liver transplantation, significantly reducing the long-term postoperative portal vein stenosis rate. He was invited to lead his team to Malaysia to assist in performing pediatric living-donor liver transplantation surgeries, contributing to the establishment of an international medical cooperation framework under the Belt and Road Initiative. He has been invited to provide technical support to numerous domestic transplantation centers in conducting liver transplantation procedures. He has long been engaged in research related to living-donor liver transplantation for end-stage liver disease and has published more than 30 papers in academic journals, including over 20 indexed in SCI.