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Elie Kheli is a Ivorian surgeon and lecturer. He’s currently at the head of the Department of General, Digestive and Endocrine Surgery at the University Hospital of Treichville in Abidjan and performed the first liver transplant in Ivory Coast.[1]

Biographic
=== Education ===

Professor Keli Elie was born in 1958 in Ivory Coast.

He completed his primary education in the towns of Bouaké, Abidjan, and Korhogo. He attended secondary school at Félix Houphouët-Boigny High School in Korhogo. He pursued his higher education and obtained his medical degree from the University of Medicine in Cocody (Abidjan).

Then, he completed his general surgery training at the University Hospital of Treichville (Abidjan).

From 1990 to 1992, Professor Keli Elie specialized in pancreas and liver surgery at Hospital Laennec (Lyon, France) and Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, France. It was during this time that he became interested in liver transplantation techniques. Between 2006 and 2016, he underwent training at the Thomas E. Starzl (Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, United States).

≡ Professional career
=== Professor Elie Kheli was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1998, then Associate Professor in 1999.

Since 2002, Professor Keli Elie has been a surgeon at Treichville University Hospital, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

He's The first liver transplant in Ivory Coast]

The Ivorian team received training between 2006 and 2019 in Pittsburgh (United States), Paris (France), and Cairo (Egypt), with financial support from the World Health Organization. They were assisted by a team of nine Egyptian professionals from Cairo, including three professors, three surgeons, and three nurses.

The Republic of Ivory Coast is the first sub-Saharan African country to successfully perform a liver transplantation.

== Conferences and Teaching ==

Professor Keli Elie is actively involved in training future surgeons in Ivory Coast. He’s a faculty member at Felix Houphouët-Boigny University of Abidjan, where since 2018, he has been the director of the surgical training program. He oversees the training of surgical interns from various countries, including Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ghana, Benin, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also organizes and conducts training workshops for practicing surgeons.

The Republic of Ivory Coast is the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to carry out a successful liver transplant.

It has become the third African country to perform liver transplants, after Egypt and South Africa.

He has published numerous articles in national and international medicals journals and presented his research at medical conferences in Ivory Coast and abroad.

Pr. Keli is active in a number of national and international medical organisations, including the Société Ivoirienne de Chirurgie (SIC), the Association des Chirurgiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest et Centrale (ACFAOC), the International Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ISES) and the Association Ivoirienne de Chirurgie (AIC).

Professor Elie Keli is currently working on the creation of a liver disease institute in Black Africa.

== Notes and references

- "Elie Keli, MD | AME", from academicmedicaleducation.com (accessed May 20, 2023)

- "Liver transplant: WHO supports first Ivorian surgery", from WHO | Regional Office for Africa, 16 May 2023 (accessed 16 May 2023) ↑

- « Côte d'Ivoire-AIP/ Tumors in digestive surgery at the center of a congress organized in Abidjan AIP – Agence Ivoirienne de Presse de Côte d'Ivoire », May 16, 2023.

- « Press conference to launch the Congress of Surgeons of Francophone Africa - Abidjan.net Photos”, at news.abidjan.net (accessed May 16, 2023)

- "Conférence de presse de lancement du congrès des chirurgiens d`Afrique Francophone - Abidjan.net Photos"