Dr. (Prof.) Naimish N. Mehta

MBBS, MS, FACRSI, FAIS, FEBS, FALS (HPB)
Chairman, Centre for Digestive Sciences
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology,
(GI Surgery, HPB Surgery, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation)
Professor & Head Department of HPB & Liver Transplantation Surgery.
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur.

Ex- Co-Chairman, Institute of Surgical Gastroenterology, GI-HPB Oncology and Liver Transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi.

Dr. Naimish Mehta, Chairman, Centre for Digestive Sciences, Professor & Head Department of HPB & Liver Transplantation Surgery. Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur. He gained extensive training in Liver transplantation from various centres of excellence in UK and USA and is recognized as an Expert in the filed of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation worldwide. He has experience of over 1500+ liver transplants cases and has also been awarded Diploma in Liver Transplantation by the European Board of Surgery and Fellowships from academic institutes. He has delivered various lectures in the filed of Liver transplantation and is an invited faculty in academic meetings in India and abroad. He is the only Indian Transplant surgeon serving as a faculty in Certified Course in Liver Transplantation surgery conducted by European Society of Organ Transplantation.

He is a member of various academic societies and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. His credits include performing successful Liver Transplantation in smallest weighing child of 4.5 kg, performing the first living donor intestinal transplantation in India, Dual Lobe Liver transplantation where two donors donate liver to a single individual, Liver Transplantation in Acute Liver failure in pregnant women and many such cases.

Academic Qualifications

• M.B.B.S, Mumbai University, December 1994
• M.S.(Gen. Surgery), Mumbai University, July 1999
• FACRSI, Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons of India, April 2003
• Certified for Multi-organ Retrieval surgery & Diploma in Liver Transplantation (European Board of Surgery) Under the aegis of European Society of Organ Transplantation

Awards & Prizes

• First position : M.S. Gen. Surgery, Mumbai University July 1999
• First position : Final MBBS, MGM Medical College, October 1994
• Distinction : Microbiology. April 1993
• Travel Grant : FESTA – (Foundation of Endocrine surgery training and advancement), October 2003
• Travel Grant : Liver surgeons training course, Basingstoke, UK. March 2006

Current Position

Chairman, Centre for Digestive Sciences, Professor & Head Department of HPB & Liver Transplantation Surgery. Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur.

Previous Positions

Consultant Surgeon, Liver Transplantation & Surgical Gastroenterology Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi 110060, 15th December 2008 to June 2023.

Liver Transplant programme at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is one of the largest programme in India performing both cadaveric and living donor liver transplants. It is comparable to any other international liver transplant centre. The living donor liver transplant programme attracts patients from around the world. We have one of the lowest Vascular and Biliary complications rate following Living donor liver transplant.

In addition to liver transplantation, major hepato-pancreato-biliary and other gastrointestinal surgeries are also performed. Over 725 liver transplantation surgeries have been performed with many firsts to its credit.

Fellowship in HPB and Transplantation Surgery, 9th January 2008 – 14th December 2008., St. James University Hospital, Leeds, UK.

Work description: Participating in on-call specialist registrar rota, lead the multi organ retrieval team, back bench preparation of liver for OLT, ex-situ splitting of the liver allograft, liver implantation and HPB surgery. Also participate in work-up and surgery for living donor liver transplantation.

Fellowship in Liver transplantation, 2nd October 2006 – 30th September 2007, Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London. UK

Work description: Managing outpatient clinics and participating in multi-organ retrieval and major HPB surgeries.

Fellowship in HPB and Liver Transplantation Surgery, 12th June 2005 – 8th September 2006, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham, UK.

It is a tertiary referral centre for complex HPB cases and one of the largest adult and paediatric liver transplant centre in Europe.

Work description: Participating in on-call rota and involved in multi organ retrievals, back bench preparation of liver for OLT, liver transplantation and HPB surgery. Also gained experience in ex-situ splitting of the liver allograft.

Consultant   Gen. Surgery and GI services, 1st March 2005 – 8th June 2005, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Hospital(BARC), Mumbai -India

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients and operation theatre list, teaching and supervising Surgical SHO and Registrars in major and minor procedures. Managing emergency services.

Junior Consultant (Asst Professor) – Gen Surgery and GI services, 24th April 2001 – 28th February 2005, T.N. Medical College & B.Y.L.NAIR Municipal Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, India

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients and operation theatre list. Teaching medical students and nurses. Responsible for teaching and training senior house officers and Registrars. Attending emergency duties and involved in decision making. Managing the operation theatre list.

Clinical Assistant – Gen Surgery, 12th March 2001 – 23rd April 2001, P.D. Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai, India.

Work description: Managing inpatients and take ward rounds with consultant. Assist in all major general and paediatric surgical procedures and perform minor procedures.

Senior Registrar – Gen. Surgery, 1st August 2000 – 31 January 2001, Rajawadi Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, India

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients and performing major and minor procedures independently, teaching and supervising Surgical SHO.  Performing emergency duties.

Senior Registrar – Gen. Surgery, 1st August 1999 – 31st July 2000, Bhagwati Municipal Hospital, Borivali, Mumbai, India.

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients and performing major and minor procedures independently, teaching and supervising Surgical SHO. Performing emergency duties.

Registrar – Gen Surgery and Critical Care Unit, 1st February 1997 – 31st July 1999, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India.

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients and performing minor procedures independently and major procedures with assistance. Taking part in emergency duties. Managing critical care and trauma unit patients.

Senior House Officer – Gen Surgery and Critical Care Unit, 8th August 1996 – 31st January 1997, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India.

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients with help of registrars and performing minor procedures. Taking part in emergency duties.

Senior House Officer – Gen Surgery, 1st February 1996 – 31st July 1996, Holy Family Hospital, Bandra, Mumbai, India.

Work description: Attending Out patients clinic, managing inpatients with help of registrars and performing minor procedures. Taking part in emergency duties.

Presentations

International (Oral)

• N Mehta, P Rao, V Kumaran, V Varma, S Saigal, N Mohan, R Mohanka, A Rastogi, S Nundy, A S Soin. ‘Living donor liver transplant for Acute Liver Failure.’ 7th ELITA-ELTR Wintermeeting, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2011.
• Mehta N N, Guruswamy KS, Davidson BR. Methods of Biliary Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation: A Meta-analysis of Randomised Control Trials. IHPBA Mumbai, India, March 2008.
• Mehta N N, Gunson BK, Buckels JAC, Mirza DF. ‘Comparison between Recipients of Cadaveric Ex-Situ Right Lobe, “Marginal” Donor and Whole Liver Transplantation’: selected for presentation in IHPBA young investigator’s award IHPBA conference, Edinburgh, UK; September 2006.
• Mehta N N, Tamijmarane A, Buckels JAC, Olliff SP, Mirza DF. ‘Factors Influencing Outcome of Metal Stent Endoprosthesis in Malignant Hilar Biliary Obstruction’: selected for presentation in IHPBA young investigator’s award session. IHPBA conference, Edinburgh, UK; September 2006.
• Mehta N N, Imber CJ, Buckels JAC, Hubscher SG, Mirza DF. ‘Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NEC) on Liver Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases (CLM): IHPBA conference, Edinburgh, UK; September 2006.

National (Oral)

• Naimish Mehta, P. Rao, N Mohan, S Saigal, N Saraf, V Kumaran, R Mohanka, A Rastogi, S Nundy, A S. Soin. ‘Living Donor liver Transplantation for Acute Liver failure’. Awarded Best Paper prize at 20th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, IASG 2010, Hyderabad, India.
• Mehta N N, Rao S A, Shilotri P P.‘Conservative Management of Diabetic Foot – A Study of 100 cases’: Annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India – ASICON 2003, Pune, India.
• Mehta N N, Chabbria D, Joshi R M. ‘Rare Indications of Hepatic Resection: A Short Case Series’:  MASICON 2002, Nashik, Maharashtra, India.

International (Poster presentation)

• N. N. Mehta, B Nath, V Varma, P S. Rao, S Kapoor, S Nundy, V Kumaran.  Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: A Single Centre Experience. 18th Annual International Liver Transplant Society Congress, San Francisco, USA, May 2012.
• R Nagaraja, S Kapoor, V Varma, V Kumaran, S Nundy, N Mehta. Re-admission after Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Predictors, Causes and Outcomes. 18th Annual International Liver Transplant Society Congress, San Francisco, USA, May 2012.
• Mehta N, Varma V, Mahendran G, Thiagarajan S, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Rastogi A, Saigal S, Nundy S, Soin AS. Incidence of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in 522 consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants. 17th Annual International Liver Transplant Society Congress, Valencia, Spain, 2011
• N Mehta, Thiagarajan, V. Kumaran, R. Mohanka, D Chawla, R Malhotra, S Nundy, A Soin. Role of Doppler Ultrasonography in diagnosis of early hepatic artery thrombosis in 470 consecutive living donor liver transplants. 16th Annual International Liver Transplant Society Congress, Hongkong. June 2010
• N. Mehta, S. Saigal, V. Kumaran, R. Mohanka, N. Saraf, S. Nundy, A. Soin. Living donor liver transplantation for hepatopulmonary syndrome. International Liver Transplantation Society, 15th Annual International Liver Transplant Society Congress, New York, USA. July 2009.
• Mehta N N, Sinha A, Joshi R M. ‘Bile Duct Injuries – Our Experience’: 1st National Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Conference (International Chapter), Nov. 2001, TATA Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.
• Bhati C S, Mehta N N, Desley N, D F Mirza. Early web-based image transmission facilitates communication and improves logistics for shared ex-situ split liver transplantation. IHPBA conference, Edinburgh, UK; September 2006.
• S Kanoria, N N Mehta, A Seifalian, D Sharma, B Davidson. ‘Effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on liver injury in patients undergoing hepatectomy for colo-rectal metastasis – a single center randomised controlled trial’. ‘The 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases: The Liver Meeting 2009, Boston, USA.

National (Poster presentation)

• Mehta N, Varma V, Mahendran G, Thiagarajan S, Rao P, Kumaran V, Chawla D, Nundy S, Soin AS. Incidence of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in 522 consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants. Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology conference. Jaipur, October 2011.
• Mehta N, Thiagarajan S, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Soin A, etal. Role of protocol Doppler ultrasonography for diagnosis of early hepatic artery thrombosis after LDLT. Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology conference. Mumbai, India. October 2009.
• Mehta N N, Rehman A, Pandya J S, Shilotri P P. ‘Benign Lympho-epithelial Cysts: A pointer to HIV Infection’: Annual Conference of the Maharashtra State Chapter of the Association of Surgeons of India – MASICON 2004, Thane, Mumbai, India.
• P S Rao, N N Mehta, B Nath, A Mallya, V Varma, V Kumaran, S Nundy, A S Soin. ‘Pre-operative Thrombocytopenia as a Predictor for post-operative outcome in Living Donor Liver Transplantation’. Special Mention Poster at the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology conference. Jaipur, October 2011.
• Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Pandey S, Rao P, Nath B, Bansal N, Ghuman S, Bhalla S, Nundy S. ‘Living Donor Intestinal Transplant using a Standardized Technique: First Report from India.’ Special Mention Poster at the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology conference. Jaipur, October 2011.
• Koirala R, Mehta N, Thiagarajan S, Mahendran G, Chattopadhyay S, Varma V, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Indications and outcomes of Urgent Redo-laparotomy in a Surgical Gastroenterology Unit.’ Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology conference. Jaipur, October 2011.

Publications Papers/Chapters Published

• Naimish N Mehta, Darius F Mirza. ‘Liver Transplantation,’ Surgery; 27(1), 2009: 38-42
• Mehta N N, Ravikumar R, Coldham CA, Buckels JAC, Hubscher SG, Bramhall SR, Wigmore SJ, Mayer AD, Mirza DF. Effect of preoperative chemotherapy on liver resection for colorectal liver metastases. European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO); 34(7), 2008: 782-786
• Naimish N Mehta, Darius F Mirza. ‘Liver Transplantation,’ Surgery; 25(1), 2007:42-46.
• Mehta N, Thiagarajan S, Wadhwa N, Mwangi J, Varma V, Kapoor S, Kumaran V, Nundy S. “Avoiding Liver Transplantation in Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis : Role of Partial Biliary Diversion.” Submitted to Journal of Paediatric Surgery. JPEDSURG-D-12-00763
• Mehta Naimish, Shetty Tilak S, Suhas U, Patnaik P S, Joshi Rajeev.Metastatic amelanotic melanoma. Indian J Gastroenterol 2002; 21:160-161
• Mehta Naimish. ‘Follow up in Liver Transplantation – A Hand book for patients.’ New Delhi: Byword Books; 2010; 42 –7
• Naimish Mehta, Prashantha Rao. Swap living donor liver transplantation: Is it feasible? – Journal scan’. The Ganga Ram Journal; 1(2), 2011:97-98
• Naimish Mehta. ‘Liver Transplantation in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.’ The Gyan Burman Liver Surgery Unit: A decade of achievement.’ 2011:11-13
• Naimish Mehta, Vibha Varma, Vinay Kumaran. Information brochure on liver transplantation. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
• Vibha Varma, Naimish Mehta, Samiran Nundy. Liver Transplantation in India-History, Chapter in the book titled ‘Liver transplantation, ECAB Clinical Update: Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation’; 2010:8-14
• Vibha Varma, Naimish Mehta, Vinay Kumaran, Samiran Nundy. Indications and Contraindications for Liver Transplantation. International Journal of Hepatology, 2011, Article ID 121862, doi:10.4061/2011/121862
• Perwaiz A, Mehta N, Mohanka R, Kumaran V, Nundy S, Soin AS. Right-sided diaphragmatic hernia in an adult after living donor liver transplant: a rare cause of post-transplant recurrent abdominal pain. Hernia. 2010;14(5):547-9
  1. Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Pandey S, Rao P, Nath B, Bansal N, Ghuman S, Bhalla S, Nundy S. ‘Living Donor Intestinal Transplant using a Standardized Technique: First Report from India.’ Accepted for publication. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology.
  2. Gurusamy Kurunchi S, Mehta Naimish, Davidson Brian R. ‘Techniques of biliary reconstruction for liver transplantation.’ Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD007055. DOI: 10.1002/14651858
  3. Joshi R M, Mehta N N, Patnaik P S, Darbari A, etal. Efficacy of Netilmicin and Ceftriaxone in clean-contaminated and contaminated surgical cases. IJS 2002; 64(4): 339-343
  4. Katrak MP, Mehta N N, Sinha AS, Patnaik PS, Khithani AS, Joshi RM. Extraserosal pedunculated leiomyoma of stomach; Indian J Gastroenterol 2002; 21(5):200-201
  5. Sujay Shad, Naimish N Mehta, Vinay Kumaran. ‘Procurement and Transplantation of Multiple Organs from a Deceased Donor’. The Ganga Ram Journal. 2011;1(4):221-226
  6. Abhishek Mitra, Naimish N Mehta, Vibha Varma, Vinay Kumaran, Samiran Nundy. ‘Colorectal Metastases- Current Perspective’. The Ganga Ram Journal; 2011;1(5):247-253
  7. Soin A, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Mohan N, Nundy S.Bridge venoplasty: A new technique to simplify venous outflow reconstruction in living donor domino liver transplantation. Surgery. 2010;148(1):155-7.
  8. Rowe I, Webb K,Gunson BK, Mehta N N, Haque S, Neuberger J. Graft loss due to recurrent disease: a single centre experience. European Society for Organ Transplantation 2008; 21: 459–465
  9. Mistry J, Varma V, Mehta N, Nundy S, Kumaran V, Gupta A. Percutaneous Transhepatic Hepaticogastrostomy: An Innovative Option for Portal Biliopathy. Tropical Gastroenterology. 2011; 32(S3): S 51
  10. Gupta M, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N,Soin AS, Nundy S. Roux loop obstruction by a migrated endobiliary stent- A case report. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3):240–241
  11. Govindasamy M, Srinivasan T, Varma V, Mehta N, Yadav A, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Biliary Tract Tuberculosis – a Diagnostic Dilemma’. J Gastrointest Surg. 2011: doi 10.1007/s11605-011-1685-5
  12. Lalwani S, Gupta M, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. Small Bowel stricture following blunt abdominal trauma. Trop Gastroenterol, 2011;32(4):304-308
  13. Chattopadhyay S, Singla P, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Operations for portal biliopathy in patients with non cirrhotic portal hypertension. Does the type of surgery affect outcome?’ HPB-2011-0309. Accepted for publication.
  14. Bansal N, Arora A, Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Sharma P, Tyagi P, Sachdeva M, Kumar A. Atypical Presentation of Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Liver Transplant Patient. J Clin Exp Hepatol 2011;1:207–209
  15. Soin AS, Kumaran V, Rastogi AN, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Saigal S, Saraf N, Mohan N, Nundy S. Evolution of a reliable biliary reconstructive technique in 400 consecutive living donor liver transplants. J Am Coll Surg. 2010;211(1):24-32.
  16. Saigal S, Nayak NC, Jain D, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Saraf N, Rastogi A, Mehta N, Nundy S, Soin A. Non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis related end stage liver disease in adults: evaluation from a study on living donor liver transplant recipients. Hepatology International. 2011;5(4):882-889
  17. Srinivasan T, Govindasamy M, Chattopadhyay S, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Inferior vena cava leiomyosarcoma – Case report.’ The Ganga Ram Journal 2011 ;1:194
  18. Chattopadhyay S, Govindasamy M, Singla P, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Portal biliopathy in patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension: does the type of surgery affect outcome? HPB 2012(14): 441–447
  19. Lalwani S, Govindasamy M, Gupta M,  Siraj F,  Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Mohan N, Chopra P, Arora A, Agarwal S, Soin A, Nundy S. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis – four cases with different risk factors, involving different anatomical sites. Indian J Gastroenterol. doi: 10.1007/s12664-012-0215-z.
  20. Koirala R, Mehta N, Varma V, Kapoor S, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Urgent redo-laparotomies: Patterns and outcome – A Single centre experience.’ Accepted for publication in Indian Journal of Surgery. IJOS-D-12-00488

Abstracts published

• Mehta N, Varma V, Mahendran G, Thiagarajan S, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Rastogi A, Saigal S, Nundy S, Soin AS. Incidence of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in 522 consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants. Liver Transplantation, (S1) June 2011, Pages:
• N Mehta, P S Rao, V Kumaran, V Varma, S Saigal, N Mohan, R Mohanka, A Rastogi, S Nundy, A S Soin. Living donor liver transplant for acute liver failure. Transplant International; 2011: 24 (Suppl. 1), 3-9
• Mehta N, Varma V, Mahendran G, Thiagarajan S, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Rastogi A, Saigal S, Nundy S, Soin AS. Incidence of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in 522 consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Tropical gastroenterology 2011;32(3):
• N Mehta, P S Rao, N Mohan, S Saigal, N Saraf, V Kumaran, R Mohanka, A Rastogi, S Nundy, A Soin. Living donor liver transplant for acute liver failure. Tropical gastroenterology 2010; 31 (3):S49
• N N Mehta, S. Thiagrajan, V Kumaran, R Mohanka, D Chawla, R Malhotra, S Nundy, A S. Soin. Role of Doppler Ultrasonography in Diagnosis of Early Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in 470 Consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants. Liver Transplantation; 2010; 16(1): S165
• Mehta  N,  Saigal S, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Saraf N, Nundy S, Soin AS. Living donor liver transplantation for hepatopulmonary syndrome. International Liver Transplantation Society, 15th Annual International Congress, New York; 8 – 11 July 2009
• T Srinivasan, J Mwangi, N Wadhwa, V Varma, V Kumaran, S Nundy, N Mehta. ‘Novel Surgery for Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis: Partial Biliary Diversion. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3):S66
• PS Rao, N Mehta, B Nath, A Mallya, V Varma, V Kumaran, S Nundy, AS Soin. Pre-operative Thrombocytopenia as a Predictor for post-operative outcome in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Liver Transplantation. June 2011, 17: (S1) S100
• Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Rastogi AN, Shah A, Nundy S, Soin AS. Spontaneous Collateralization Following Hepatic Artery Thrombosis After Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Trop Gastroenterol. 2010 July-Sep;31(3)
• PS Rao, N Mehta, N Mohan, S Saigal, N Saraf, V Kumaran, R Mohanka, AN Rastogi, S Nundy, AS Soin. Emergency Living Donor Liver Transplantation in 31 patients with Acute Liver Failure. Liver Transplantation. June 2010: 16(S1) June 2010, Pages: S1–S284.
• S Kanoria, N N Mehta, A Seifalian, D Sharma, B Davidson ‘Effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on liver injury in patients undergoing hepatectomy for colo-rectal metastasis – a single center randomised controlled trial’ Hepatology Supplement: The 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases: The Liver Meeting 2009, Volume 50, Issue Supplement 4, page 157A, 2009
• P S Rao, N N Mehta, B Nath, A Mallya, V Varma, V Kumaran, S Nundy, A S Soin. ‘Pre-operative Thrombocytopenia as a Predictor for post-operative outcome in Living Donor Liver Transplantation’. Special Mention Abstract. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011; 32(3): S42
• Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Pandey S, Rao P, Nath B, Bansal N, Ghuman S, Bhalla S, Nundy S. ‘Living Donor Intestinal Transplant using a Standardized Technique: First Report from India.’ Special Mention Abstract. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011; 32(3):S27
• Koirala R, Mehta N, Thiagarajan S, Mahendran G, Chattopadhyay S, Varma V, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Indications and outcomes of Urgent Redo-laparotomy in a Surgical Gastroenterology Unit.’ Tropical Gastroenterology 2011; 32(3):S105
• B Palat, V Gupta, N. N. Mehta, Vinay Kumaran, Ravi Mohanka, Amit N. Rastogi, Sanjiv Saigal, Neeraj Saraf, Neelam Mohan, Samiran Nundy, Arvinder S. Soin. Graft to Recipient Weight Ratio Analysis of 414 Consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants: How Much Can the Bar Be Lowered?  Liver Transplantation Volume 16, Issue S1; S117
• Mitra A, Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Nundy S. Outcome after hepatectomy. Annual Conference of the International Hepato-Pancreato- Biliary Association- Indian Chapter. HPB 19th-21st November 2010, New Delhi.
• Koirala R, Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Nundy S. Outcome of redo- laparotomy in hepatobiliary surgery. Annual Conference of the International Hepato-Pancreato- Biliary Association- Indian Chapter. HPB 19th-21st November 2010, New Delhi.
• R. Mohanka, V. Kumaran, N. Mehta, A. Rastogi, S. Nundy, A.S. Soin Outcome of patients referred for living donor liver transplantation at a high volume centre. Liver Transplantation July 27, 2010, Volume 90 Number 2S; 850.
• Thiagarajan S, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. Postoperative morbidity after gastrointestinal surgery – Clavien grading and predictive factors. Tropical Gastroenterolgy 2010; 31(3) Suppl 1: S9.
• Goswami P, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Carcinoma Gall Bladder – 109 consecutive patients; A single centre experience.’  Tropical Gastroenterolgy 2011; 32(3): S77
• Jain M, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Post-operative Outcome and Predictors of Mortality after Pancreatico-Duodenectomy for Pancreatic Cancer in Elderly Patients.’ Tropical Gastroenterolgy 2011; 32(3): S82
• Thiagarajan S, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. Standardized morbidity assessment in hepatopancreatico biliary surgery – Clavien grading and predictive factors. Annual Conference of the International Hepato-Pancreato- Biliary Association- Indian Chapter. 19th-21st November 2010, New Delhi.
• Varma V, Kakodkar R, Mehta NN, Kumaran V, Nundy S, Soin AS. Double Graft Inflow Vessels in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Does Double Mean Trouble? Liver Transplantation, Vol (S1) June 2011,17: S 1 – 99
• Singla P, Kumaran V, Mehta N, Mohanka R, Saigal S, Saraf N, Nundy S, Soin AS. Intraoperative abandoning of the living donor liver transplant procedure in well worked up patients. Tropical Gastroenterology 2009; 30(3): S38.
• S Lalwani, V Varma, N Mehta, V Kumaran, R Mohanka, A Rastogi, S Nundy, A S Soin. ‘ Perioperative Factors in Long-Term Outcome and Quality of Life after Donor Hepatectomy. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3):S52
• Mistry J, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S, Gupta A. ‘ Percutaneous Transhepaticogastrostomy: An Innovative Option for Portal Biliopathy. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3):S51
• Mitra A, Kumaran V, Mehta N, Varma V, Nundy S. ‘Factors Determining Outcome after Hepatectomy for Malignancies’. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3):S57
• Mistry J, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Importance of Bactibilia in Outcome Following Pancreatoduodenectomy.’ Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3):S90
• Kumaran V, Verma V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Rastogi AN, Mohan N, Nundy S,Soin AS. Domino Liver Transplantation: A rare opportunity to expand the donor pool. Trop Gastroenterol2009;30(3):S38
• Soin AS, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Saigal S, Saraf N, Mohan N, Nundy S, Optimal utilization of  the living donor pool: How to use non-usable donor livers. Tropical Gastroenterol 2009;30(3);S37
• Singh T, Rao PS, Varma V, Mehta NN, Nundy S, Kumaran V. ‘Role of 18F FDG-PET in assessment of Hepatocellular carcinoma prior to Living Donor Liver Transplant. Tropical Gastroenterol 2011;32(3);S41
• Rastogi A, Verma V,  Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Saraf N, Mohan N, Soin AS. Pre-transplant portal vein thrombosis: Operative management and outcome in 375 consecutive living donor liver transplants( LDLT). Tropical Gastroenterology 2009; 30: S41.
• Sood D, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Saraf N, Saigal S, Nundy S, Soin AS.  Drain bilirubin as an indicator of biliary complications after living donor liver transplantation. Poster Session III, Page S270-1.  International Liver transplantation Society, 15th Annual International Congress, New York; 8 – 11 July 2009.
• Kumaran V, Singh T, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Rastogi A, Saigal S, Saraf N, Mohan N, Nundy S, Soin AS. Living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Tumour size and number may not matter. Liver Transplantation 2010;16:186.
• Singh T, Rao PS, Varma V, Mehta NN, Nundy S, Kumaran V. Role of FDG-PET in Assessment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Prior to Living Donor Liver Transplant. Liver transplanatation 2011;17: S 1 – 169
• Nagaraja R, Varma V, Govindasamy M, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Gupta A, Nundy S. ‘Changing Trends in Hepatic Artery Aneurysms – A Single Centre Experience’. Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3): S42
• Singh T, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Rastogi A, Nundy S, AS. Cryopreserved veins from explanted livers in living donor liver transplantion. Liver Transplantation 2010;16:113.
• Srinivasan T, Govindasamy M, Varma V, Mehta N, Nundy S, Kumaran V, Soin AS. ‘Infectious Complications in Living Donor Liver Transplantation – Patterns and Factors influencing Outcome.’ Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3): S45-46
• Singla P, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Rastogi A, Saraf N, Saigal S, Nundy S, Soin AS. The dilemma of abondoning a living donor liver transplant: Experience at a high volume centre. Liver Transplantation 2010;16:S137.
• Mahendran G, Thiagarajan S, Varma V, Mehta N, Yadav A, Kumaran V, Nundy S. Biliary tuberculosis—A diagnostic dilemma. Trop Gastroenterol 2010;31 (Suppl 1):S55.
• Mitra A, Chattopadhyay S, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Effect of Preoperative Biliary Stenting on the outcome of Pancreaticoduodenectomy. Trop Gastroenterol 2011;32(3):S94
• Nagaraja R, Arya V, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Jaggia A, Bhargava M, Nundy S. ‘Thrombophilia Investigation in Acute Mesenteric Ischaemia.’ Tropical Gastroenterology 2011;32(3): S27
• Saraf N, Saigal S, Kumaran V, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Sud R, Nundy S, Soin AS Do pre-transplant disease severity scores predict outcome after living donor liver transplantation. International Liver transplantation Society, 15th Annual International Congress, New York; 8 – 11 July 2009.
• Chattopadhyay S, Rastogi AN, Varma V, Shah A, Mohanka R, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Saigal S, Saraf N, Mohan N,Nundy S, Soin AS. Biliary anatomy in living related liver donors: Study of 501 cases. Trop Gastroenterol 2010;31:S44.
• Nath B, Rao PS, Mallya A, Varma V, Mehta NN, Nundy S, Kumaran V Neurological Complications Post Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Liver transplanatation 2011;17: S 1 – 282
• Gupta M, Singla P, Lalwani S, Mohanka R, Kumaran V, Mehta N, Rastogi A, Soin AS, Nundy S. Roux loop obstruction by an enterolith formation around migrated endobiliary stent. Trop Gastroenterol 2010;31:S55.
• Mallya A, Mistry J, Rao PS, Nath B, Varma V, Mehta NN Kumaran V, Nundy S. ‘Determinants of Cost in Living Donor Liver Transplant.’ Liver transplanatation 2011;17: S 1 – 155
• Govindasamy M, Chattopadhyay S, Singla P, Srinivasan T, Gupta V, Varma V, Mehta N, Kumaran V, Nundy S, Soin A. Factors Affecting Graft Survival after Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Liver transplantation 2011;17: S 1 – 227
• Mallya A, Rao PS , Nath B, Mistry J, Varma V, Mehta NN, Kumaran V, Nundy S. The Economics of Liver Transplantation in India – How much does it cost and what drives it?’ Tropical Gastroenterology 2011:32(3):S44

Workshops & Conferences

• Henri Bismuth Liver Symposium. Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. May 2006
• ‘Annual meeting of Pancreatic society of Great Britain and Ireland’, November 2005, UK.
• 4th International Workshop on Minimally Invasive Endocrine Surgery and 6th Postgraduate course in Endocrine Surgery’, in association with the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons at Lucknow, India, October 2003
• Training programme on Proximate staplers, Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education, Mumbai. November 2001
• CME on Gastroenterology, Hepatology & G.I. Endoscopy, Indian Medical Association, Academy of Medical Specialists, Mumbai, October 2002
• New Standards in Anorectal Surgery- Sphincter Conservation/ Neosphincters” G.I. Surgical Oncology department of TATA Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, March. 2003

Courses

• Hesperis course in Organ Transplantation – European society of organ transplantation, November 2006 and May 2007.
• European Donor Surgery Masterclass:Training in management of the donor and Multi-organ retrieval surgery – European society of organ transplantation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. May 2006.
• UK Liver Surgeons training course, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke and Tyco Laboratories, Paris; March 2006
• Annual Course on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, London, September 2005
• British Transplant Society Summer Training Programme’  , Birmingham, UK,  August 2005
• Advanced Course in Colo-Proctology’, The Association of Colon & Rectal Surgeons of India,’ Mumbai, September 2002.
• Basic Course in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo-surgeons, The Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education, Mumbai, July 2002
• Basic Instructional Course in Colo-Proctology, The Association of Colon & Rectal Surgeons of India, Bombay Hospital, April 2002.
• Advanced Trauma Life Support Care, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, November 2001.

Organizational skills

• Helped in organizing the ‘Annual Conference International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) – Indian Chapter’, Delhi, India. November 2010
• Actively helped in organizing the ‘Annual Pancreatic Society meeting’ conducted by the Association of Pancreatic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, UK, 2005.
• Successfully arranged multiple Final MBBS examinations; as chief supervisor during the tenure as a lecturer at T.N. medical college and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai. India, 2001 – 2005.