Bishow Bekhyat Karki, MRCS (Eng), MSc (HPE), is a General Surgery Registrar/Resident with a specialist interest in hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) and transplant surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.

His work focuses on advancing surgical training through simulation, mentorship, and innovation, with a particular emphasis on improving access in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He is the founder of LaApSi™, a low-cost laparoscopic simulation platform incorporated into the Royal College of Surgeons of England Basic Surgical Skills (7th Edition) programme under a royalty-free licensing agreement.

He is also the lead for the National Transplant Surgery Mentorship Programme (NTSMP-UK), the first formal structured mentorship initiative in UK transplant surgery, developed to address disparities in training access and support workforce development.

At ILTS, he presents work on:
The development of a low-cost modular liver transplant simulation platform (GLTS) for scalable implementation in LMICs.
Early outcomes from the NTSMP-UK pilot, evaluating engagement, feasibility, and educational impact.

His work aims to expand global transplant capacity through scalable training, mentorship, and innovation-driven solutions.