Doctor Profile

Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardising 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. Dr. Vij and his team has a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Noida with a record 95% patient and 100% donor success rate. Dr. Vij has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.

Education

• Medical School & Fellowships
• MBBS – BJ Medical college, Pune
• MS – General Surgery – Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, 2001
• DNB – General Surgery – National board of examinations, New Delhi, 2003
• Fellowship – Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2003

Previous Experience

• Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
• Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
• Fortis Hospital, Mohali
• Rajendra Hospital & Medical Collage, Patiala
• B.J.M.C, Pune

Professional Memberships