Speciality : Liver transplantation Surgery Experience: 35 years of experience Hospital : Medanta- The Medicity
Brief about doctor:
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.
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.
Education & Training:
MBBS Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 1972
MD Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi University 1978
FRCA Royal College of Anesthesia, London 1986
Clinical Fellowship in Liver Transplant St. James Hospital, U.K. 1998
Special areas of interest:
Liver Transplantation
GI Surgery
Laparoscopic Surgery
Bariatric Surgery
Award:
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
