He is recognized worldwide for his pioneering work in establishing Liver Transplant in India.
From 2001 to mid 2010, he established a large Liver Transplant Center at Sir Gangaram Hospital. However, in June 2010, he shifted along with his entire team to Medanta MediCity Hospital, Gurgaon (Delhi-NCR). Medanta Hospital with its current bed strength of 1300 is one of the largest and most modern tertiary care hospitals in the country Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin has established a 150 bed (including 36 Liver ICU beds) dedicated to liver treatment facility performing 250 liver transplants and hundreds of liver surgeries and complicated bile ducts every year.
Medanta Liver Institute is the first specialized institute of its kind in Asia and one of the few in the world, which combines state-of-the-art facilities for living donors, cadaver donors, pediatric and adult liver transplantation along with a large research program for stem cell and hepatocyte transplantation. These innovative technologies may be able to treat liver failure without a transplant.
Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin has performed more than 3,800 living donors including more than 400 pediatric liver transplants in India, which is the highest in the country, and the second highest in the world. It currently performs 22-25 living donor liver transplants each month with a success rate of 95%, which is comparable to the largest clinics in the world. He handles cases from the rest of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa as well as referrals from across the country.
He and his colleagues not only oversee their highly effective programme, but also teach the majority of the remaining liver transplant teams in India and other neighboring countries that have recently started performing this surgery. He has, in the true sense of the word, pioneered the development of this specialty in India and the Indian sub-continent over the past 15 years by spreading knowledge across the country and abroad, promoting confidence in the procedure among patients and referring physicians, and transforming from an experimental procedure into a highly successful one. to save lives.
Over his extended career of 21 years as a cholangiologist and liver transplant surgeon, he has performed more than 12,000 other challenging surgeries of the liver, gallbladder and bile duct.
Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin is a member of the National Advisory Board on Liver Transplantation as well as the committees of all important national and international societies. He frequently serves as the sole speaker from India in the majority of international conferences on liver transplantation, including the International Liver Transplantation Society
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Asia Pacific Digestive Week, International Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Association, International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists, Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver, Asian Living Liver Transplantation Group, and Asia Pacific Transplantation Forum.
Academic work of Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin
Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin’s initial surgical training was at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He taught there for 11 years, earning his MBBS and MS degrees before specializing in gastroenterology and hepatology, where he later wrote a dissertation on portal hypertensive gastropathy.
After obtaining two FRCS degrees from Glasgow and Edinburgh in the UK, he underwent training and placement for six years at two of the most renowned centers in the world (University of Cambridge for five years and University of Birmingham for one year) for liver and biliary tract surgery as well as transplantation of the liver, kidney, small intestine and pancreas.He qualified and was awarded the FRCS in Transplant Surgery, making him one of the few surgeons in the UK to do so.
He has performed hundreds of transplants and has been Professor at two Royal Colleges of Surgery as well as being Professor of Surgery at the University of Cambridge. He also conducted pioneering research in the field of agriculture at the University of Cambridge. In national and international journals and books, more than 110 of his original research articles and book contributions have been published.
In 1997 and 2000, he worked as a visiting fellow at the Asan Medical Center in Seoul and Kyoto University Hospital. In 2004, he held visiting faculty positions at Izmir, Turkish University of Ege, and Istanbul, Turkey’s Ege University. These facilities are among the best in the world for living donor liver transplantation.
Beginning in 1998, he turned down the opportunity to accept a faculty position at the University of Cambridge in favor of returning to India to start a liver transplant center of excellence there.
Notable Operations and Some Firsts in Dr. Soein’s Credit-
Achievements in Organ Transplantation in India
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