Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin has performed nearly 1000 liver transplants in India, the maximum in the country. Liver transplantation team at Medanta currently performs 25 live donor liver transplants every month with 95% success results; at par with the world's best liver transplantaion centres. As a practice the team not only treats referrals from India; but also handles cases from the rest of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Medical Qualification

• MS (THESIS) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 1989

• MBBS All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 1985

• Primary FRCS Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1992

• FRCS (Edin) Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1993

• FRCS (Glass) Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1993

• FRCS (Gen Surg) Intercollegiate Board in General Surgery (subspecialty - Transplant Surgery) 1997

Department Institute

Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine

Expertise

Expertise in treating Liver Cancer ,Cirrhosis, Bile Duct cancer, Gall Bladder Cancer, Biliary stricture, Liver Cyst, Liver Metastases, Biliary A

Doctor's Experience

• Medanta - The Medicity Chairman - Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine June 2010 - present

• Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi Senior Consultant Transplant / Hepato- biliary Surgery April 2001 June 2010

• AIIMS, New Delhi, India Junior Resident ( Surgery) Jan 1987 to Dec 1989

• AIIMS, New Delhi, India General Surgery, Senior Resident Jan 1990 to May 1992

• Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool Locum SHO June 1992 to Sept 1992

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Surgery University of Birmingham, Birmingham SHO in Transplant Oct. 1992 to Sept. 1993

• Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge; Registrar in Transplant (Surgery) Sept. 1993 to May 1995

• Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Senior Registrar June 1995 to Feb 1998

• Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, Senior Consultant Hepatobiliary / Transplant March 1998 to March 2001

Memberships & Certifications

• Life member of association of Surgeons of India

• British Transplantation Society

• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

• Indian Society of Organ Transplantation

• Indian Society of Gastroenterology

• Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology

• Indian Society of Nephrology

• Asian Society of Organ Transplantation International Society of Liver Transplantation

• Founder Member and Trustee of the Human Organ Procurement and Education (HOPE) Trust

Awards & Accomplishments

• Padma Shri by the President of India 2010 For pioneering work in the development of Liver Transplantation programme in India.

• RD Birla 2011 Outstanding clinician of the year

• Swastha Bharat Samman 2011 For development of liver surgery in India

• E- medinews award 2011 Medical statesman of the year

• Achievements listed in Limca Book of records 2007, 2008, 2009,2010 Highest liver transplants

• DMA Award 2010 Excellence in Organ Transplantation

• Ranked first in All India selection exam 1990 Senior resident in surgery at AIIMS

• Awarded research grant 1996 From the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

• Best Student 1985 Best Student in Surgery medal at AIIMS, New Delhi.

• Best Postgraduate Student 1989 Best Postgraduate Student in Surgery medal at AIIMS, New Delhi

• Awarded British Transplantation Society Bursary 1994 Research presentation at the Kyoto World Transplant Congress

• Awarded British Transplantation Society Bursary 1997 Visiting Fellowship at the Kyoto Liver Transplant Unit

• DMA Distinguished Services Award July 1, 2005 Outstanding contribution to and pioneering achievements in Liver Transplantation in India

• Medindia Oration and Medindia Award 2008 Pioneering contribution in Liver Transplantation, Chennai

Publications

• Segment IV preserving middle hepatic vein retrieval in right lobe living donor liver transplantation Journal of American College of Surgeons 2011

• Evolution of a reliable biliary reconstructive technique in 400 consecutive living donor liver transplants. Journal of American College of Surgeons 2010

• Bridge venoplasty: A new technique to simplify venous outflow reconstruction in living donor domino liver transplantation. Surgery 2009

• End-stage nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: evaluation of pathomorphologic features and relationship to cryptogenic cirrhosis from study of explant livers in a living donor liver transplant program. Human Pathology 2009

• Right-sided diaphragmatic hernia in an adult after living donor liver transplant: a rare cause of post-transplant recurrent abdominal pain. Hernia 2009

• Does the presence of a lump or jaundice in a patient with gall bladder cancer mean the lesion is not respectable Dig Surg 2009

• Liver hemangioma mimicking cholangiocarcinoma - a diagnostic dilemma Trop Gastroenterol 2009

• Improving outcome of liver resection in patients with colorectal metastases. National Medical Journal of India 2008

• Small bowel enterocutaneous fistulae: The merits of early surgery Indian Journal of Surgery 2008

• Malignant masquerade at the hepatic hilun. Indian Journal of Surgery 2008

• Portal vein stenosis following living donor liver transplant: Manifestations and management. Transplant International 2009

• Isolated Loop Pancreatic Remnant Drainage Following Pancreaticoduodenal resection Hepatogastroenterology 2008

• Use of banked cryopreserved veins from explanted recipient livers in living donor liver transplantation Surgery 2008