About Dr. Vivek Vij
• Dr. Vivek Vij is presently working as Director with Department – Organ Transplantation Fortis Escorts, Delhi. • He is presently heading the Fortis Liver Transplant team with a growing experience of over 2000 liver transplants. • He performed over 500 liver transplants with minimum difficulties. • He also executed combined liver-kidney and dual transplants as one of the firsts in India. • Dr. Vij has performed 350 major hepatectomies without blood transfusion and bile leak. • He initiated Liver transplant processes • He executed the whole kind of advanced GI surgical procedures comprising the Whipple's pancreaticoduodenectomy to colonic interposition in corrosive injuries. • He performed over 500 non-transplant liver resections comprising radical cholecystectomies and segmental liver resections. • He is the only applicant from India to be chosen in esteemed Roche Preceptorship Program from Alabama, the USA in the year 2006 • His specialties are GI cancers, he believes in delivering a holistic method for treating patients. Pancreaticoduodenectomy and biliary injuries especially interest him as a gastro surgeon. • He printed in the top indexed journal for transplantation (American Journal of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation) about his work in liver transplant.Hospitals
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Specialization
- Organ Transplantation
- GI cancers
- Pancreaticoduodenectomy
- Biliary injuries
Work Experience
- Director, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, and Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
- Fortis Hospital, Mohali.
Education
- MBBS
- MS
- DNB
