MBBS(AIIMS), MS (AIIMS), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Transplant Surgery)-Cambridge, UK
Dr. A.S. Soin is presently a Senior Consultant Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, and Director of Liver Transplantation at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Soin has spent 12 years there gaining his MBBS and MS degrees followed by specialist experience in Liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery. During this period he also published a thesis on his research on Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy which was later published as a paper in an international journal.
He then went to U.K where within six months, he obtained FRCS from both Glasgow and Edinburgh, and then trained and worked in two of the world’s most renowned centres for Liver and Biliary Surgery, and Liver, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation for 6 years. He became the first Indian and only the fifth surgeon in the UK to qualify and obtain an Intercollegiate FRCS in Transplant Surgery. He spent a year at University ofBirmingham with Prof P McMaster and 5 years at University of Cambridge with Prof Sir Roy Calne who is acknowledged worldwide as one of the pioneers and founders of modern transplantation. Initially as a trainee and then as Faculty Lecturer at Cambridge, he accumulated an experience of conducting hundreds of liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplants, expertise in complex liver and pancreatic surgery, and open and laparoscopic biliary surgery.
At Cambridge, he was a Surgical Tutor for the University MBBS students and Faculty for Royal College Training courses in Basic surgical skills and Laparoscopic Surgery for junior surgeons. In addition, he conducted pioneering research in experimental intestinal transplantation, and clinical liver transplantation. He has written nearly 60 original research papers and book chapters in international and national publications. He has delivered more than 160 papers and invited lectures all over the world in major international meetings in his field. He won the annual research awards of the British Transplantation Society for the years 1994 and 1997.
He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Liver Transplantation and Immunology at the Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan in 1997 and Visiting Faculty at the Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea in 2000. These two centres are the world’s most experienced and renowned for living donor liver transplantation.
In the beginning of 1998, he gave up the opportunity of a permanent Faculty post at University of Cambridge and chose to return to India to establish a centre of excellence in liver transplantation in his own country.
In India, he has the unique distinction of having established two centres for liver transplantation in Delhi. Initially, within 8-9 months of joining Delhi’sIndraprastha Apollo Hospital, he and his team established India’s first successful liver transplant programme. In the subsequent 2 years, his team attained acclaim and recognition as being among South Asia’s leading multiorgan transplant units.
In pursuit of academic excellence, he subsequently joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, where also he established a state-of-the art and successful facility for liver transplantation.
Among his pioneering achievements is the credit of having performed India’s first ever successful cadaveric liver transplant in Nov 1998. This patient is also the longest survivor after a liver transplant in India. He then performed India’s first successful left lobe transplant (living donor) in 1999 and then also the country’s first successful adult-adult living donor right lobe liver transplant in March 2000.
He was also the first surgeon to successfully perform laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (removal of kidney by keyhole surgery) in India. He has successfully used this technology for kidney transplantation in nearly 250 cases so far, which is the among the largest experiences of this technique outside of the USA. His team offer kidney transplantation with high success rates which are comparable to those at the best centres in the world.
He was voted by Outlook magazine in 1999 as one of the four most prominent Sikhs with significant contributions in the medical field in India.
After returning to India, he has kept up his academic and research activities. Apart from postgraduate teaching at his Institute, he served as Surgical Faculty to the Indian Medical Association postgraduate teaching course. He is a one of the three Faculty Members for one of India’s most sought after super speciality DNB courses in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation that is run at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He has also been appointed Faculty Member at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Basic Surgical Skills Training courses to be held in Delhi quarterly from September 2003.
He is one of the founder members and Trustee of the HOPE (Human Organ Procurement and Education) Trust which is a non-governmental, non-profit body aimed at spreading awareness about brain death and organ donation in order to benefit hundreds of thousands who die from organ failure in India annually. This organization is currently functional in Delhi, but it aims to spread its activities to the rest of the country in due course.
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