Dr. Shiva Kumar

Dr. Shiva Kumar is Division Chair of the Gastroenterology Department at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi's Digestive Disease Institute. He brings over 30 years of clinical experience, including more than eight years as Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at two major US transplant centers. He also directed hepatology fellowship training at Ochsner Clinic and held faculty positions at Mayo Clinic and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.

Dr. Kumar's clinical expertise centers on liver disease management, transplant hepatology, and hepatobiliary endoscopy (minimally invasive procedures on the bile ducts and pancreas). He treats conditions including cirrhosis, liver failure, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, viral hepatitis C, and pancreatic disorders. He has served as a principal investigator in clinical trials for newer hepatitis C treatments and has published extensively on liver disease and transplantation.

He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Kumar is a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, American College of Physicians, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. He has served on multiple national committees and is a good fit for patients with complex liver conditions who benefit from both medical expertise and transplant experience.