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Dr. Makowka formerly served as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Director of Transplantation Services at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He also served as Professor of Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Makowka later became Executive Director of the Comprehensive Liver Disease Center at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, where he created a multiple disciplinary approach to the treatment of liver disease. Dr. Makowka has since retired from the active practice of medicine and has experienced a successful career in developing investment and business strategies for companies in the healthcare, life sciences, finance, and other industries.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Makowka has transitioned himself as a distinguished clinical and transplantation surgeon and medical researcher to a successful entrepreneur, advisor and board member in a wide range of industries. Since receiving his M.D. degree from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1977 and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Pathology in 1982, he has published over 400 articles and chapters in both clinical and basic scientific research publications.

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