Dr. Vivek Vij

Dr. Vivek Vij
Dr. Vivek Vij
Chairman - Liver Transplant
Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram | Fortis Escort Heart Institute, Okhla | Fortis Hospital, Noida | Fortis Hospital, Mohali

With more than 23 years of overall experience, Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols since the inception of the procedure in India. He is the first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in ‘Liver Transplantation’.

Dr. Vij and his team have performed over 2500 liver transplants to date with a record 95% patient and 100% donor success rate. He also has the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<5%) in Living Donor Liver Transplants (LDLT) worldwide to his credit. He is well known for his skills not only in India but also in many Asian countries, including Mongolia, Pakistan, Iraq, CAS countries, SAARC countries, and African countries.

Speciality
Transplantation Medicine, Liver
Education
  • MBBS
  • MS
  • MRCS (Ed.)
  • DNB
Areas of Expertise
  • Adult & Paediatric Liver Transplant
  • Pure Laproscopic Donor Hepatectomy
  • Complex Liver Surgery
  • Advanced Pancreato-biliary Surgeries
  • Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeries
  • Basic Science Research and Regenerative Medicine
  • Surgeries of Gastroinstestinal Tract
  • GI Oncosurgery
Working
  • Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram
  • Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla
  • Fortis Hospital, Noida
  • Fortis Hospital, Mohali

Awards And Honours

  • 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

Memberships

  • Roche Preceptorship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
  • Member of the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS)
  • Member of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT)
  • Member of Delhi Medical Council
  • International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago