Dr. Vivek Vij
Experience: Over 26 years
Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI),
Gurugram, India
Introduction
Dr. Vivek Vij is the Chairman of Liver Transplant and Hepato-Biliary Sciences for the entire Fortis Group. Patients usually end up in his clinic when end-stage liver failure makes a transplant their only survival option, when severe jaundice signals bile duct cancer, or when a child needs a complex blood-mismatch liver. He actually holds one of the most incredible safety records in the surgical world, maintaining a 100% donor safety rate across thousands of operations.
About Dr. Vivek Vij
With over twenty-six years in the operating room, Dr. Vivek Vij handles the highest-pressure surgeries imaginable. He did his MS in General Surgery before picking up his MRCS from Edinburgh and getting selected for a highly specialized transplant preceptorship right at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Then came back to India and basically built the liver transplant programs at Fortis Noida and Mohali from scratch.
Alongside his team, he has successfully pulled off over 4,000 liver transplants. He also actually holds the lowest biliary complication rate in the entire world for living donor liver transplants, keeping it safely under 4%. Was also the very first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a major series on removing donor livers laparoscopically.
Qualifications
- MBBS — B.J. Medical College, Pune.
- MS (General Surgery) — Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot.
- DNB (General Surgery) — National Board of Examinations, New Delhi.
- MRCS — Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK.
- Roche Preceptorship in Liver Transplant — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA.
Awards & Recognition
- Chairman of Liver Transplant across Fortis Hospitals (Gurugram, Noida, Okhla, Mohali).
- Executed over 4,000 liver transplants with a 97% success rate.
- Maintains an unmatched 100% donor safety record.
- Special Award from the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Chicago.
- Honored by the Ministries of Health in Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
- First Indian surgeon to publish on laparoscopic donor hepatectomy.
- Personally trained over 50 advanced liver surgeons.
Specialities & Expertise
- Living and deceased donor liver transplant
- Pediatric and ABO-incompatible liver transplant
- Laparoscopic donor hepatectomy
- Robotic liver and bile duct cancer surgery
- Gallbladder cancer resection
- Complex hepatobiliary surgery
Patient Experience & Approach
Families stepping up to be living donors say Dr. Vivek Vij completely shifts the consultation to focus heavily on their safety first. His 100% donor safety record basically tells you everything you need to know about his strict surgical discipline. Parents of kids needing scary blood-mismatch transplants mention how his Birmingham training really shows up in the ICU, where he calmly manages the harsh realities of immunosuppression and the long recovery timeline.