Dr. Vivek Vij

Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols to ensure the highest level of donor safety since the time when the field was introduced 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 program initially at its Noida center and then at Mohali. Dr. Vij and his team have a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed the majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Sector 62, Noida with a record 97% patients. He has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<6%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide.