Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin

Brief Profile:

Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin (MBBS, MS, FRCS, FRCS, FRCS) is recognized all over the world for his pioneering work in establishing liver transplantation in India and for performing more than 2500 living donor liver transplants in India, which is the highest in the country and the second highest in the world. Dr. A S Soin and his team currently perform around 22 to 25 live donor liver transplants every month, with 95% success, giving results which are at par with the world best centers. Aside from referrals from all over the country, Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin also handles cases from the rest of South Asia, The Middle East, and Africa.

Dr Arvinder Singh Soin has extensive experience of 21 years as a Liver Transplant Surgeon and Hepatobiliary surgeon and he has performed more than 1500 liver transplants and more than 12000 other complex liver, gall bladder and bile duct surgeries. • First successful cadaveric liver transplant in India - 1998 • First successful left lobe liver transplant in India - 1999 • First successful right lobe liver transplant in India - 2000 • First successful combined liver and kidney transplant in India - 1999 • India first (and the world first reported) successful swap liver transplant – 2009 • World first chain of three simultaneous liver transplants (combined domino and swap) 2012 • India first successful ABO-incompatible liver transplants 2012 • First successful long distance cadaveric Liver Transplant in which the liver was flown in from Chennai and transplanted in Delhi - 1999. • First successful reduced cadaveric liver transplant in a child - 2003 • First bloodless liver transplant in India - 2005 • First successful emergency liver transplant on a patient transported to Delhi by air ambulance in deep coma – 2005 • India youngest ever recipient (11 months) to receive successful liver transplant - 2008. • India oldest recipient (70 years) of liver transplant – successful transplant in 2006. • World first combined liver and kidney transplant in the same patient (with primary hyperoxaluria) using organs from two different live donors - 2007 • India first successful dual lobe liver transplant (double liver transplant in the same patient) – 2007 • India first successful re-transplant (on a patient a year and a half after the first) – 2008 • India first and world youngest Domino liver transplant – 2009 • India smallest liver transplant recipient – (6 kg) – 2009 • India first successful Intestinal Transplant – 2013 • India youngest and smallest ever recipient (4 months, 4 kg) to receive successful liver transplant - 2013.

Dr A S Soin did his initial surgical training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Dr Arvinder Singh Soin spent 11 years there gaining his MBBS and MS degrees followed by specialist experience in Liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery, during which he published a research thesis on Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy. Dr A S Soin then obtained FRCS degrees from both Glasgow and Edinburgh in the UK, following which he trained and worked at two of the world most renowned centers (University of Cambridge 5 years, University of Birmingham 1 year) for Liver and Biliary Surgery, and Liver, Kidney, Small Bowel and Pancreas transplantation for 6 years. Dr Arvinder Singh Soin was one of the first few surgeons in the UK to qualify for and obtain an Intercollegiate FRCS in Transplant Surgery. In addition to performing hundreds of transplants, Dr A S Soin was Surgical Tutor for the University of Cambridge, and Faculty for 2 of the Royal Colleges in Surgery. At Cambridge, Dr Soin also conducted pioneering research in transplantation. More than 110 of his original research papers and book contributions have been published / in international / national journals and books. Dr Arvinder Singh Soin was a Visiting Fellow at the Kyoto University Hospital in 1997 and Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, in 2000. Dr A S Soin was Visiting Faculty at the Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 2004, and Istanbul in 2006 and 2007. These centres are among the world most renowned for living donor liver transplantation.

Services/Interest

• Sudden Liver Failure
• Pediatric Liver Failure
• ABO Mismatched Transplants
• Swap Transplant Cases
• Liver Cirrhosis
• Liver Cancer
• Cancer of Bile Duct & Gall Bladder
• Childrens Liver Diseases

Work Experience:

• 1995 - 1998 Senior Registrar / SpR (years 4,5,6) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital
• 1998 - 2001 Senior Consultant, Hepatobiliary / Transplant Surgery at Apollo Hospital
• 2000 - 2000 Visiting Fellowship at The Liver Transplant Unit at Asan Medical Centre
• 2001 - 2010 Senior Consultant, Transplant / Hepatobiliary Surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Education:

• MBBS - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1985
• FRCS - General Surgery - Royal College Of Surgeon Of Edinburgh, Uk, 1992
• FRCS - General Surgery - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (RCPS), Glasgow, 1993(
• FRCS - General Surgery - Intercollegiate Board in General Surgery (subspecialty – Transplant Surgery), 1997

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Padma Shri by the President of India - 2010
• RD Birla - 2011
• Swastha Bharat Samman - 2011
• E- medinews award - 2012
• Achievements listed in Limca Book of records - 2007
• Achievements listed in Limca Book of records - 2008
• Achievements listed in Limca Book of records - 2009
• Achievements listed in Limca Book of records - 2010
• DMA Award - 1990
• Awarded research grant - 1996
• Medindia Oration and Medindia Award - 2008
• DMA Distinguished Services Award - 2013
• Awarded British Transplantation Society Bursary - 1997
• Awarded British Transplantation Society Bursary - 1994
• MSOSA Award for Excellence - 2014
• Doc n Doc award for Excellence in Liver Transplantation - 2014
• MT India Healthcare Award - 2016

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Life member of association of Surgeons of India
• British Transplantation Society
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
• Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
• Indian Society of Gastroenterology
• Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology
• Indian Society of Nephrology
• Asian Society of Organ Transplantation International Society of Liver Transplantation
• Founder Member and Trustee of the Human Organ Procurement and Education (HOPE) Trust