Dr. Vivek Vij

Brief Profile:

Dr. Vivek Vij is a liver transplant surgeon in India with 20 years of vast experience. He is known for his expertise in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary Sciences. He is the Director at The Department of Liver Transplantation & Gastrointestinal Surgery at Fortis Health Care (Fortis Escorts, FMRI, Fortis Noida and Fortis Chandigarh. Dr. Vij is the first liver surgeon from Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic donor hepatectomy in Liver Transplantation. He has been honored with a special award at International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), in Chicago and the youngest liver transplant doctor in India to complete 800 independent liver transplants with Lowest Biliary Complication Rate.

Dr. Vivek Vij is a Specialist Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery at Fortis Hospital Noida, with 24 years of vast experience Dr Vivek Vij is top Hepatologist in Noida as he has achieved 100% donor safety in living donor liver transplant surgery. He has a cumulative experience of performing more than 4500 liver transplants with his team and has managed to record 95% liver transplant success rates. He is founder of Liver transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in Fortis group of Hospitals.

He also runs a Fellowship program for training young surgeons and paramedical staff at Fortis. To his credit, he has more than 50 national and international publications and presentations on Liver surgery and transplantation with remarkable contributions for scope of improvement in this field. Along with that his work has been published in top indexed journal for transplantation American Journal of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation. His area of research primarily involves living donor transplants and medical management of patients with liver diseases.

Dr. Vij Specializes

• Liver transplantation (Adult/Paeds)
• Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Surgery.
• Acute Liver Failure
• GI cancers
• Pancreaticoduodenectomy
• Minimal access surgery (Laparoscopic surgery)
• Pediatric Gastroenterology
• Liver Resection surgeries for benign and malignant tumors
• Biliary Injuries and Surgical gastroenterology.

Work Experience:

• 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

Education:

• 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

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Roche Preceptor ship Training Program in Liver Transplantation at University of Alabama, USA.
• Special award by International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), in Chicago.
• Clinical Excellence from Fortis Healthcare.
• Decision-Analysis for selection of Graft Type in Right Lobe LRLT Selection of donor grafts - Oral presentation and travel award in ILTS

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

• International Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary association (IHPBA)
• International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago