With 20+ years of experience, Dr. Vivek Vij is one of the most sought-after liver surgeons in India known for expertise in Liver Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Sciences. He and his team is recognized for conducting more than 4000+ cumulative liver transplants with minimum possible complications. He is currently the Director of ‘Liver transplant and Gastrointestinal Surgery’ at Fortis Group of Hospitals..

• 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.

Recognized for liver transplants with the lowest biliary complication rate, Dr. Vivek Vij is applauded for minimum expenses on post-operative biliary complications. He aims to take Liver Transplant in India to a much higher level by improving basic research facilities for high-end research.

Areas Of Interest

• Liver Transplant
• Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic Surgery
• Laparoscopic Living Donor Hepatectomy
• Advanced Upper & Lower GI Surgery
• Adult & Paediatric Liver Transplant
• Complex Liver Surgery
• Advanced Pancreato-biliary Surgeries
• Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeries
• Basic Science Research and Regenerative Medicine

• MBBS
• MS
• MRCS (Ed.)
• DNB

Current Experience

• Chairman & Director of ‘Advanced Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences' at Fortis Group of Hospitals.

Previous Expereince

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

• The only candidate from India to be selected in the prestigious ‘Roche Preceptorship Training Program in Liver Transplantation’ (2006) at the University of Alabama, USA.
• Vivek Vij, Decision-Analysis for selection of Graft type in right Lobe LRLT Selection of Donor Grafts – Oral presentation and travel award in ILTS
• Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<4%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.
• First to Graft harvest of the posterior sector for living-donor liver transplantation
• First active Liver transplantation Centre in Uttar Pradesh
• First to transplant with Cavo-atrial Anastomosis in India
• First to carry out combined liver-kidney transplants (CLKT) for children suffering from hyperoxaluria (excessive urinary excretion of oxalate)
• A first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic donor hepatectomy in ‘Liver Transplantation’.
• Member of International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago
• Esteemed Member of International Hepato-Pancreato Biliary Association (IHPBA)
• Member of Indian Society Of Organ Transplantation (ISOT)
• Two awards for clinical excellence from Fortis Healthcare
• Awarded by Ministry of Health (Mongolia)
• International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago.