Dr Thiagarajan Srinivasan
Senior Consultant & Director Institute of Liver Diseases, Transplant & HPB Surgery
The Director of the Institute of Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery, Dr Thiagarajan S is a world renowned HPB and liver transplant surgeon who has an experience of 15 years in this field. This Thanjavur Medical College and PGI Chandigarh alumnus has a personal experience of more than 1,700 liver transplants and he has a cumulative experience of more than 3,500 liver transplants (both living and deceased donor as well as paediatric liver transplants) and 1,000 advanced complex open and laparoscopic hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeries. He is proficient in all types of complex gastrointestinal, liver (both laparoscopic and open) and pancreatico biliary surgeries. He has been trained in advanced robotic and minimal access surgery at Severance Hospital (Yonsei University), Seoul, South Korea. He has also amassed a wealth of experience at Medanta - The Medicity, the country’s top liver transplant centre, as a Minimal Access, Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon. He has to his credit more than 90 peer reviewed scientific articles published in national and international journals and book chapters, and he has delivered more than 50 lectures including plenary lectures in various national and international fora. His special interests include living donor liver transplants, paediatric liver transplants and complex liver resections. He is an avid researcher who has won many awards and has trained hordes of liver transplant and HPB surgeons around the world.
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2009
India’s first and world’s youngest domino liver transplant
India’s smallest liver transplant recipient – 6 kg
India’s first (and the world’s first reported) successful swap liver transplant
2012
World’s first chain of three simultaneous liver transplants – combined domino and swap
India’s first successful ABO-incompatible liver transplant
2013
India’s first successful Intestinal Transplant
India’s youngest and smallest ever recipient – 4 months, 4 kg – to receive successful liver transplant
2015
India’s first successful combined living donor liver and deceased donor kidney transplant
2016
India’s and the world’s smallest liver transplant recipient – 2.1 kg
2012-2020
Largest ABO-incompatible liver transplant programme
Largest Paediatric liver transplant program in India
2016-2020
India’s first surgeon to perform 40 hybrid (small incision) 3D laparoscopic right lobe donor hepatectomies
2001
MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery)
Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
2006
MS (General Surgery)
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
2006
DNB (Diplomate of National Board) in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
2013
Senior Liver Transplant Fellowship
Medanta – The Medicity
International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (Executive Council Member)
Liver Transplant Society of India (Founder Member)
International Liver Transplant Society (Member)
2008
Best Paper Award for the paper titled ‘C Reactive Protein and Thrombocytosis in Esophageal Carcinoma’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2010
Best Special Mention (Poster presentation) for the paper titled ‘Clavien’s Grading in Gastrointestinal Surgery’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, Telangana
2010
Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Hepatobiliary Tuberculosis – A Diagnostic Dilemma’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, Telangana
2011
Young Investigator Award (Plenary presentation) for the topic ‘Infective complications in Living donor liver transplantation – Patterns and Factors Influencing Outcome’
International Liver Transplant Society World Congress, Valencia, Spain
2011
ICMR Travel Award for plenary presentation
International Liver Transplant Society World Congress, Valencia, Spain
2011
Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Predictors of Graft Survival in LDLT’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
2011
Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Accuracy of MRCP in biliary Anatomy in LDLT’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
2014
Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Rare Bacterial infections in LDLT’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
2015
Best Special Mention Paper Award for the topic ‘Toraymyxin Filtration in LDLT’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Pune, Maharashtra
2017
Best Oral Paper for the topic ‘‘Safe Optimization’ of GRWR and Remnant Liver Volume in LDLT: Interlobar vascular plane is not a watershed’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Puducherry
2018
Best Paper Award for the paper titled ‘Techniques and outcomes of Portal vein thrombosis in Pediatric LDLT’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Chandigarh
2018
Best Video Award for the video titled ‘Hybrid 3D Laparoscopic Right Lobe Donor Hepatectomy – First Series from South Asia’
Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Chandigarh
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