Arvinder Singh Soin

Dr. A S Soin

Arvinder Singh Soin (abbreviated as Dr. A. S. Soin) is a surgeon and pioneer in the field of liver transplantation. Currently, he is the Chief Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon and Chairman of the Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, India. In 2010, Dr Soin was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions to the field of medicine.

Professional career

Dr A S Soin is recognised all over the world for his pioneering work in liver transplantation. From 2001 to mid-2010, he established a big liver transplant center at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. However, in June 2010, he moved to Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon to start a new center. Medanta at a current bed strength of 925 (and soon to be 1500) is one of the largest and the most modern tertiary care hospitals in the country. Here, Dr. Soin has established a 150-bed (including 36 Liver ICU beds) dedicated Liver Treatment facility, carrying out 250 liver transplants and hundreds of complex liver and biliary tract surgeries every year.

Dr Soin has performed more than 1000 living donor liver transplants in India, which is the highest in the country and the second highest in the world. He and his team currently perform 22–25 live donor liver transplants every month with an immediate success rate of about 90% – which is at par with the world's best centres. Apart from referrals from all over the country, he handles cases from the rest of South Asia, The Middle East and Africa.

Besides running their own highly successful program, he and his team are also responsible for training most of the remaining liver transplant teams in India and neighbouring countries. In disseminating expertise across the country and beyond, building confidence in the procedure among patients and their referring physicians, moving it from experimental status to a highly reliable life-saving procedure, he has in a true sense, pioneered the development of this speciality in India and the subcontinent in the last 15 years. In his extensive experience of 21 years as a Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary surgeon, he has performed more than 1500 liver transplants and more than 12000 other complex liver, gall bladder and bile duct surgeries.

Dr Soin serves on the committees of all the important National and International societies, as well as on the National Advisory Board in Liver Transplantation. He is a regular Faculty member and speaker (often the only one from India) at most world fora in Liver Transplantation such as ILTS, AASLD, APDW, IHPBA, IASGO, APASL, Asian Living Donor Liver Transplant Group and Asia Pacific Organ Transplant Forum, many more.

Research papers and Invited lectures

Dr. Soin has published more than 110 research papers and book chapters, and delivered more than 750 invited lectures and papers all over the world.

He is also the Editor of India's first comprehensive book on his field called "Liver Transplantation" which has been published by Elsevier. The book has sold over 15,000 copies.

Awards and achievements

National Awards

• Padma Shri in 2010 for pioneering the development of Liver Transplantation in India.^[1]
• Received the Rameshwar Das Birla National Award for the Best Clinician for the Year 2010
• Zee TV – Swasth Bharat Samman Award for excellence in Medicine – 2010
• Medical Statesman of the Year 2010 – e-MEDINEWS AWARDS, 2010

Other awards

• Annual research awards of the British Transplantation Society – 1994
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Research Award – 1996
• Annual research awards of the British Transplantation Society – 1997
• Delhi Medical Association Distinguished Service Awards – 2005 and 2010 for pioneering contributions in the field of Transplantation in India
• Medindia Oration Award for 2008 for pioneering contributions to Liver Transplantation in India

Orations

• Naseem Ansari Oration at King George Medical College, Lucknow, 2007
• Medindia Oration at Chennai, 2008
• K.E.M. Mumbai, Oration, 2009
• Dr Phani Dhar Memorial Oration, Mumbai, March 2011

Honorary Fellowship

• Bestowed Honorary Fellowship of the King George Medical College, Lucknow at the Annual Convocation in 2007.

Visiting Professorship

• Appointed Visiting Professor in Liver Surgery at K.E.M. College and Hospital, Mumbai – 2009

Milestones

• First successful cadaveric liver transplant in India – 1998
• First successful left lobe transplant in India – 1999
• First successful right lobe transplant in India – 2000
• First successful long distance cadaveric Liver Transplant in which the liver was flown in from Chennai and transplanted in Delhi – 1999.
• First successful transplant at SGRH – 2001
• First and the only successful combined liver and kidney transplant in India – 1999
• First successful reduced cadaveric liver transplant in a child – 2003
• First successful transplant in India on a Pakistani patient – 2004
• First bloodless liver transplant in India – 2005
• First successful emergency liver transplant on a patient transported to Delhi by air ambulance in deep coma – 2005
• He transplanted the youngest ever child to receive a successful liver transplant in India – 2006.
• He transplanted India's oldest recipient (70 years) of a successful liver transplant in 2006; and then again in 2010 (78 years)
• In November 2006, his team became the first in South Asia to complete 100 liver transplants
• May 2007: World's first combined liver and kidney transplant from two live donors saves 15-year-old with Hyperoxaluria
• July 2007: South Asia's first double liver transplant in the same patient.
• September 2007: India's first combined liver and kidney transplant in an adult (with both liver and kidney failure) using organs from two separate living donors.
• India's first successful dual lobe liver transplant (two liver transplants in one man – 2007)
• India's first combined liver and kidney transplant in an adult (with both liver and kidney failure) using organs from two separate living donors – 2007
• India's first successful re-liver transplant (in a patient who received a liver transplant 1.5 years earlier) – 2008
• India's first and world's youngest successful domino liver transplant in 2009
• India's first (and the World's first reported) swap liver transplant (exchange of liver donors between two families) 2009
• India's smallest liver transplant recipient (5 kg) – 2010
• India's first team to complete 50 liver transplants in children – 2010
• India's first to complete 1000 liver transplants
• India's first and the world's youngest transplant for Factor VII A deficiency – 2010
• First to perform 3 life-saving liver transplants simultaneously, on the same day 2011
• First to perform upside down (two left lobes from two donors) liver transplant 2011
• First to perform laparoscopic donor hepatectomy and first to perform Robotic donor hepatectomy 2011
• First to perform successful ABO-incompatible liver transplant in India 2012
• First to cure Factor VIII deficiency (hemophilia) with liver transplant 2012

References

• Transfusion-free liver transplant The Telegraph 9 May 2005
• NDTV expert panel
• R D Birla Award Indian Express 17 April 2011
• Dr. Soin at MyDocAdvisor
• Dr. Soin receives R.D. Birla award
• Miracle Worker
• Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine

External links

• Arvinder Singh Soin – Official website
• Profile at Medanta