Dr. Vivek Vij
Chairman - Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Science
Fortis Hospital, Noida
15 years of experience
About Doctor
Qualifications:
- MBBS
- MS
- MRCS (Ed.)
- DNB
Overview:
The nation's first liver transplant surgeon, Dr. Vivek Vij, is recognized for having invented living donor surgery and standardized safety measures to get the best level of donor safety since the profile's establishment. Being the first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent, he is the first to report a series of liver transplantation cases involving laparoscopic donor hepatectomy. He established a very successful liver transplant program at the Fortis group of Hospitals' Noida and Mohali centers. He is the creator of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences. With a record 97% patient success rate, Dr. Vij and his staff have collectively conducted over 2500 liver transplants. Most of these procedures were carried out at Fortis Hospital in Noida.