MBBS , MD
BLK Super Specialty Hospital New Delhi
27+ yearsof clinical experience
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Dr. Vivek Vij
CHAIRMAN & DIRECTOR LIVER TRANSPLANT & HEPATO - BILIARY SCIENCE
MBBS , MS , DNB , MRCS
Practising atFortis Hospital Gurgaon
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About Dr. Vij.
Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols to achieve the highest of donor safety since the 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 program initially at its Noida center
Dr. Vij and his team have a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed the majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Noida with a record 97% patient. Dr. Vij has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate
He has performed whole range of advanced GI surgical procedures including Whipple's pancreaticoduodenectomy to colonic interposition in corrosive injuries. He has also performed more than 500 non-transplant liver resections including radical cholecystectomies and segmental liver resections. With special interest GI cancers, he believes in providing holistic approach for treating patients. Pancreaticoduodenectomy and biliary injuries specially interest him as a gastro surgeon. Other than surgical experience, he has great interest in academics and writing articles in international journals and presentations in international meetings.
HOSPITAL AFFILIATION
Fortis Hospital Gurgaon
A CLOSER LOOK AT THEIR PRACTICE
Areas of expertise.
Abdominal Pain Treatment
Carcinoma Gallbladder
Gall Bladder (Biliary) Stone Treatment
Periampullary Carcinoma
Colorectal Surgery
Laparoscopic Surgery
Biliary & Pancreatic surgery
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THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND YOUR CARE
A foundation of expertise.
Education & qualifications
MBBS - University Of Poona - 1998
MS - General Surgery - Baba Farid University of Health Sciences - 2001
DNB (General Surgery) from National board of examinations New Delhi
MRCS (Ed.) from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh March 2003
Roche Preceptorship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago
Membership of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (MRCS Ed.)
The only candidate from India to be selected in 2005 Roche Preceptorship training program in University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Member of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary association (IHPBA), one of the leading international associations of HPB and Transplant surgeons.
Member of International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), a leading association of liver transplant surgeons.
Professional experience
Senior Registrar General Surgery November 2001-May 2003 Fortis Hospital Chandigarh, India
Senior Registrar Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation June 2003 -May 2006 Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Fellow Liver Transplant and Surgical Gastroenterology June 2006 - September 2006 Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Consultant Liver Transplant and Surgical Gastroenterology September 2006 till January 2011 Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India
Program Director: Liver transplant Liver transplant and GI surgery January 2011 till date Fortis Group of Hospitals (Delhi and NCR).
Professional memberships
Membership of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (MRCS Ed.)
The only candidate from India to be selected in 2005 Roche Preceptorship training program in University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Member of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary association (IHPBA), one of the leading international associations of HPB and Transplant surgeons.
Member of International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), a leading association of liver transplant surgeons.
Awards & recognition
Targeting the Achilles heel of adult living donor liver transplant: Corner sparing sutures with mucosal eversion technique of biliary anastomosis.
Laparoscopy-assisted hepatectomy versus conventional (open) hepatectomy for living donors: when you know better, you do better.
Perioperative management of liver transplantation with concurrent coronary artery disease: Report of two cases.
Portal biliopathy treated with living-donor liver transplant: index case.
Peroneal neuropathy following liver transplantation: possible predisposing factors and outcome.
Successful living donor liver transplant in a child with Abernethy malformation with biliary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and intrapulmonary shunting.
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