Dr. Vivek Vij 

MS, DNB, MRCS, MBBS

Chairman & HOD – Liver Transplant & GI Surgery

Fortis Escorts Liver & Digestive Diseases Institute

PAST EXPERIENCE

• Consultant Liver Transplant and Surgical Gastroenterology-Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
• Consultant Liver Transplant and Surgical Gastroenterology- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

ABOUT

Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols to achieve a 100% 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 programme initially at its Noida centre and then at Mohali. He and his team has a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed the majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Noida with a record 95% patient and safe donor surgery. He has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<5%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide. He is well known for his skills not only in India but also in many Asian countries (Mongolia, Pakistan, Iraq, CAS countries, SAARC countries and African countries). With such work and experience, he has published and presented his work in various national and international forums. He has also published his work and results in various international journals of repute.

EXPERTISE

• Adult & Chronic Pediatric Liver Transplant
• Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy
• Complex Liver Surgery
• Advanced Pancreato-biliary Surgeries
• Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeries
• Basic Science Research and Regenerative Medicine
• Surgeries of Gastrointestinal tract
• GI Oncosurgery