Doctors

Brief Profile:

Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardising safety protocols to achieve a 100% donor safety profile since the time of its inception in the country. He is the first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in 'Liver Transplantation'. He is the founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in Fortis group of Hospitals, starting a highly successful liver transplant programme initially at its Noida centre and then at Mohali. Dr. Vij and his team has a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Noida with a record 95% patient and 100% donor success rate. Dr. Vij has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.

Education and Training:

MBBS - University of Pune, 1998

MS - General Surgery - Baba Farid University of Health sciences, 2001

DNB - General Surgery - National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, 2003

MRCP - Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 2003

Expertise:

Adult & Paediatric Liver Transplant

Complex Liver Surgery

Advanced Pancreato-biliary Surgeries

Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeries

Basic Science Research and Regenerative Medicine

Experience:

*Chairman Liver Transplant / Hepatobiliary Surgery at Fortis Escorts, Okhla, New Delhi

Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals

Consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Consultant at Fortis Hospital, Mohali

Consultant at Rajendra Hospital & Medical Collage, Patiala

Consultant at B.J.M.C, Pune

Membership and Fellowship:

Delhi Medical Council

Awards and Achievements:

Roche Preceptorship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago

Invitation to many international conferences as faculty

He was honoured with a special Ministry of Health award by the Mongolian government