Dr. Kalyan Vijay Kumar

Consultant in Liver Transplant Anaesthesia

Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Qualifications:

M.B.B.S From Guntur Medical College. (2005-2010)

M.S General Surgery From Alluri Sita Rama Raju Academy of Medical Sciences(ASRAM), Eluru (2016-2019)

Experience:

Senior Resident from Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada 2019 to 2020.

Fellow in Abdominal Organ Transplantation at IKDRC - ITS since 2020 - 2023

Senior Resident in Department of Abdominal Organ Transplantation at IKDRC ITS (Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 2023

Observership/LTSI Surgical Fellowship in Living Donor Liver Transplantation & Pediatric Liver Transplantation under Dr Subhash Gupta at CLBS Max Hospital, New Delhi for 1 month.

Assistant Professor in Department of Abdominal Organ Transplantation Surgery at IKDRC ITS, 2024

Faculty Development Program at Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad, 2024

Observership at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research center (KFSH&RC), Riyadh in Robotic Donor Hepatectomy and Robotic Liver Transplantation (2025)

Areas Of Interest/ Expertise:

  1. Assisted/Performed around 100 multi organ procurement from DBD donors.
  2. Assisted around 10 Pancreas Transplant.
  3. Performed Pancreas Procurement and bench surgery.
  4. Assisted around 300 DDLT and performed recipient hepatectomy in 100 cases & implantation in 10 cases.
  5. Assisted around 40 LDLT.
  6. Assisted Retroperitoneoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
  7. Assisted Deceased & Live Kidney Transplant
  8. Assisted in Robotic Kidney transplant
  9. Assisted Robotic Donor Hepatectomy (4 converted, 1 totally robotic)
  10. Performed AV fistula
  11. OPD/Ward/ICU management of Pre/Post Liver Transplant Patients
  12. Assistance to Interventional Radiology Procedures in liver transplant like PTBD, TJLB, Liver Biopsy, HVPG, TIPPS, DIPPS, RFA, TACE
  13. Performed & Assisted in basic endoscopy & EVL in CLD patients
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Conferences Attended - Many state & national annual conferences organised by ASI (Association of Surgeons of India from 2016-2020)

  • ISOT Annual Conference Indore 2018
  • LTSI Annual Conference - 2021
  • DRILLS, New Delhi - 2023
  • LTSI Annual Conference, Medanta, New Delhi - 2024
  • LTSI Annual Conference, Hyderabad - 2024

Membership:

  • IMA
  • ASI
  • IAGES
  • AMASI
  • ACRSI
  • IHPBA 
  • ISOT
  • LTSI
  • ARIS (Association of Robotic & Innovative Surgeons)

Paper/Poster Presentations:

  1. “ Organ Procurement from DBD Donor on ECMO & short term outcomes of Recipients” in LTSI Annual Conforence - 2021 (online)
  2.  “ A difficult to treat Rejection “ in DRILLS 2023, New Delhi .
  3. Poster on “The impact of donor body mass index on safety and outcomes in living donor liver transplantation: An analysis of the national United States database” - LTSI 2024, New Delhi

Awards:

AWARDS & RECOGNITION : BEST POSTER AWARD IN STATE CONFERENCE (APASICON-2018), held at KADAPA.

Fellow of Indian Association of Gastro and Endo Surgeons ( FIAGES) since November 2019.

Award of Academic Excellence from IKDRC ITS during transplant surgery training (2020-23)

LTSI - Surgical Fellowship 2024