Dr. Vijay Vohra

Speciality : Liver transplantation Surgery
Experience: 35 years of experience
Hospital : Medanta- The Medicity

Headed the anaesthesia team that participated in all the firsts of liver transplantation in India.
Trained anaesthetists and intensivists from India and abroad in Transplant Anaesthesia.
Dr Vijay Vohra has more than 35 years of experience in Anesthesiology after his qualification. He headed the team that established Liver Transplant Anaesthesia and Critical Care at two major centres in India- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Medanta- The Medicity.

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He also has 5 years of experience as the Vice-Chairperson in policy making and running a large department of 40 anaesthetists at Sir Ganga Ram
He has imparted training in Transplant Anaesthesia to visiting / fellow anaesthetists and intensivists from 26 centres within India and abroad in the last 10 years.
He also has experience of over 1500 liver transplants.
He was the first in India to develop and introduce a hemodynamic and coagulation monitoring protocol for a bloodless liver transplant.
He headed the anaesthesia team that participated in all the firsts of liver transplants in India.
He has been a reviewer of the Journal of Clinical Anaesthesia, Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hepatology.

Distinguished Service Award in Cardiac Surgery, Government of India, 2002
Achievement Award for starting the cardiac surgery programme in Norvic Hospital, 2002
Gold medal for best scientific publications by Cardiologist Society of India, 2001
Distinguished Services Award for starting the cardiac surgery programme in Jammu Medical College, 2001

Hospitals

Medanta – The Medicity is amongst India’s largest and most renowned multi-super speciality healthcare centre with 1250 beds, 29 super speciality units and more than 800 accomplished doctors.
Supported by state-of-art infrastructure, all the departments in the hospital are fully equipped with cutting-edge technology, modular Operation Theatre and modernized monitoring systems in ICUs.
The panel of doctors from Medanta, headed by A.S.Soin performed the first successful intestinal transplant in India.