About Dr. Rahul Saxena

Dr. Rahul Saxena is a Liver Transplant And Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgeon, currently based at Nagpur.

• MBBS and M.S from Government Medical College, Nagpur
• Fellowship in Liver Transplantation and Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery from Medanta-the Medicity, Gurgaon (India)
• International visiting fellowship in Liver transplant - Asan Medical Centre, Seoul (South Korea)
• Multiorgan transplant Fellow - University of Minnesota, U.S.A

Dr Rahul Saxena ‘s initial surgical training was at Government Medical College, Nagpur. He spent 15 years there gaining his MBBS and MS degrees followed by specialist experience in Gastro-intestinal and Liver Surgery as an Assistant Professor.

He completed his Senior Fellowship in Liver Transplant & Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery from Medanta- The Medicity, Gurgaon and was an integral part of the liver transplant team under
Prof (Dr) A S Soin. This team pioneered and performed the first liver transplantation in India and does maximum number of liver transplants in the world.

He was a Visiting Fellow at the Asan Medical Centre, Seoul University, (South korea) in 2014-2015 under the mentorship of Prof. S. G. Lee. This center is among the world’s most renowned for living donor liver transplantation.

He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical Center (USA) in 2016. This is among the world’s foremost center doing Deceased donor and Segmental Pancreas Transplantation as well as Autologous Islet Cell Transplantation.

Dr Rahul Saxena has an extensive experience of more than 1000 Living donor and cadaveric donor liver transplants as well as kidney transplant, small bowel transplant, pancreas transplant and complex hepatobiliary surgeries in both adults & children.

Before coming to Nagpur, he worked as a consultant at one of the largest & busiest liver transplant unit in Western Maharashtra at Sahyadri Speciality Hospital, Pune. He was instrumental in starting the Living donor liver Transplant Programme at Sahyadri Hospital in 2016-17 and this team performed 65 liver transplants (both DDLT and LDLT) in the very first year of its inception.

In June 2017, he gave up the opportunity of a Faculty post at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow and chose to return to central India (Nagpur) to establish a center of excellence in liver transplantation for providing high level expertise & affordable, personalized & comprehensive transplant services to the deserving patients in this part of India.

His mission in life is to make liver transplant affordable & within reach of the common Indian masses.

Clinical experience

He is passionate about Liver Transplantation in adults & children & counts complex hepatobiliary surgeries as his primary interest. He has been very active in the critical management of patients with Decompensated End-stage-liver-disease(ESLD) with a multidisciplinary approach.

Dr Rahul Saxena has a rich experience in :

• Living Donor Liver Transplantation
• Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation
• Combined Liver- Kidney transplantation
• Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
• Isolated Pancreas Transplantation
• Autologus Islet Cell Transplantation
• Modified Multi visceral organ Retrievals and Transplantation
• Laparoscopic Liver Resections
• Complex HPB Procedures
• Advanced Gastro-intestinal procedures

Affiliations

• Life Member Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Life Member Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC)
• Life member of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT)
• Member of International Liver Transplantation Society (2015-16)
• Member of International Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study Group (ILDLTSG)
• Member of International Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Association (IHPBA-Indian Chapter)
• Life Member of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
• Life Member of Association Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI)
• Life member of Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG)

Dr Rahul Saxena is an avid reader, researcher and has published in many major Indian and International indexed journals. He is a regular attendee and faculty member at most of the world forums associated with Liver Transplantation.