Transplant Hepatologist, Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network;
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Dr. Mamatha Bhat is a Hepatologist and Co-Lead of the Transplant AI initiative at the University Health Network's Ajmera Transplant Centre and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She leads a highly interdisciplinary research team dedicated to improving outcomes of liver transplantation by developing multimodal tools of Artificial Intelligence for personalized predictions, and has been funded by CIHR, Canadian Liver Foundation, American society of Transplant among others. She has published over 200 papers in journals such as Lancet Digital Health, Journal of Hepatology, Gut and Hepatology. Dr. Bhat has been the recipient of recognitions such as the 2025 Canadian society of Transplant Research excellence award, 2022 CASL Research Excellence award and the 2021 American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Career Development Award. Dr. Bhat is also Partnership & Engagement Lead for the Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) and current Chair of the Transplant AI Taskforce of the AST.