Professor Elie Keli is an Associate Professor, Head of the Department of General, Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, Treichville University Hospital, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1986 from the Felix Houphouet-Boigny University. After completing his internship he started his training as a general surgeon at Treichville University Hospital. This was followed by HPB surgery training at Laennec Hospital and Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, France where he developed an interest in liver transplant surgery. Between 2006 and 2016, as a visiting surgeon, he underwent training at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. His academic appointments include an Assistant Professorship in 1998, followed by an Associate Professorship in 2004 at the Treichville University Hospital, Abidjan.
He held a professional appointment of head of the Department of General surgery at Hôpital Militaire d’Abidjan from 2000 to 2015.
He is also the Director of the General Surgery postgraduate training program at medical school the Felix Houphouet Boigny University.
Currently he is the president of Société Ivoirienne de Chirurgie Digestive.
He is a member of the International Hepato-Pancreato-biliary Association.
