The only candidate from India to be selected in the prestigious ‘Roche Preceptorship Training Program in Liver Transplantation’ (2006) at the University of Alabama, USA.
Vivek Vij, Decision-Analysis for selection of Graft type in right Lobe LRLT Selection of Donor Grafts – Oral presentation and travel award in ILTS
Lowest Biliary Complication rate (< 4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.
First to Graft harvest of the posterior sector for living-donor liver transplantation
First active Liver transplantation Centre in Uttar Pradesh
First to transplant with Cavo-atrial Anastomosis in India
First to carry out combined liver-kidney transplants (CLKT) for children suffering from hyperoxaluria (excessive urinary excretion of oxalate)
A first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic donor hepatectomy in ‘Liver Transplantation’.
Member of International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago
Esteemed Member of International Hepato-Pancreato Biliary Association (IHPBA)
Member of Indian Society Of Organ Transplantation (ISOT)
Two awards for clinical excellence from Fortis Healthcare
Awarded by Ministry of Health (Mongolia)
About
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 and then at Mohali.
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 (< 6%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.
