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Dr. Vikas Jain is an alumnus of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He received his urological and renal Transplant training from the prestigious Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad (Gujarat). He further received training in deceased donor renal transplant at Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona (Spain). He has an excellent academic record, with various awards and accolades to his credit, the most prestigious being Prof C K P Menon’s Best Paper Award for the year 2010 and the European Association Urology Scholarship to visit Spain for training in deceased donor renal transplant.
He previously worked as a consultant at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. After working for two years at Fortis and gaining experience with nearly 500 renal transplants, he started Urology and Renal Transplant Services at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi. He independently started this First (and still the only) Renal Transplant and Urology department in a Delhi Government hospital. Under his dynamic leadership, the department became a recognized “centre of excellence” for minimally invasive urology and renal transplant in 5 years.
He is an advanced laparoscopic urologist and has been popularizing “Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN)”, i.e. removal of a kidney from the donor through a “keyhole” amongst patients and fellow transplant surgeons.
He is a reviewer for Indian J Urol. It is the official journal of the Urological Society of India (USI).
Achievements
One hundred fifty-seven renal transplants at ILBS, with 100% results.
Retrieved both the kidneys from a 16-month-old (Youngest) brain-dead donor and transplanted in an adult. This is the “first” and only case in India.
Retrieved both kidneys from a non-heart-beating donor (NHBD) and successfully transplanted in two patients. The first NHBD in Delhi/NCR.
Did four back-to-back transplants in 36 hours (two living donor swaps and two deceased donors).
Professional Memberships & Certifications
International Member: American Urological Association
Corresponding Member: European Association of Urology
Full Member: Urological Society of India
Member: North Zone Chapter of USI/ Delhi Urological Society
Member: Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
Member: American Society of Transplant
Member: Société Internationale d’Urologie
Awards and Accolades
First in Biochemistry at the First MBBS university exam held in Feb-March 1996
Recipient of award endowed by the All India Conference of ACBI, Manipal, for securing the highest marks in biochemistry in February-March 1996.
Surgical Society of Mysore, PG Best Paper Award for the paper entitled- Postnatal management and outcome of antenatal hydronephrosis due to pelvic-ureteric junction obstruction, presented at 22nd Annual Conference of KSC-ASICON at Bangalore in Feb. 2004.
2nd Best Paper Award in its category for a Video presentation titled “Laparoscopic pyeloplasty: How we do it! At the 18th West Zone USICON held at Sholapur, Maharashtra, between 13th and 16th November 2008.
The recipient of the USI-EAU Travelling Fellowship will attend the European Urology Resident Education Program (EUREP)-2009 in Prague between 28th August and 2nd September 2009.
I won the first prize in the MCQ examination conducted at the USI-AUA Instructional Course-Mock examination and Annual Review Course jointly by USI and AUA in Mumbai on 28th and 30th September 2009.
Prof. CKP Menon Best Paper Award: Tadalafil monotherapy is as efficacious as Tamsulosin in patients with LUTS secondary to BPH: results of the first head-on comparative, prospective, randomized study to evaluate the efficacy of Tadalafil and Tamsulosin, in patients with LUTS secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia at the USICON 2010.
2nd Prize Vijayawada Prize Poster category: Donor gonadal vein reconstruction for extension of the transected renal vessels in living renal transplantation at the USICON 2010.
The first Indian to have been awarded the European Association of Urology (EUSP) scholarship to visit Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain for a “Short-term”.
DUSCON Achiever’s Award for the year 2015, by Delhi Urology Society. This award was given on 20th November 2015 at the Annual DUSCON Meet held at PGIMER and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi.
Scholarship from the European Foundation of Urology (EFU) to participate in Semi-Live 2017, organized by the Department of Urology of the University Hospital of Heidelberg (Germany) between 16th & 18th February 2017.
