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Dr. Vibha Varma

Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, Liver Transplant

MBBS, MS(Gen.Surg.), DNB(Gen.Surg.), DNB(Surg. Gastro.) MRCSEd(UK), Fellowship Organ Transplant(Liver, Pancreas, Small bowel)

OPD Schedule

Mon - Sat: 12: 00 PM - 4: 00 PM

Profile

Introduction

Dr Vibha Varma is a Liver Transplant, and Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgeon, with over two decades of dedicated expertise. She has been a key member in the pioneering team to perform successful Liver Transplant in India and has been instrumental in establishing liver transplant programs in many cities in our country. She carries a huge experience of over 3000 liver transplants and complex hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgeries. She has expertise in minimal invasive (Laparoscopic

and Robotic) living donor surgery.

Years of Experience: More than 2 decades

Membership

  • Life Member of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
  • Life Member of Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG)
  • Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI)
  • International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association – Indian Chapter (IHPBA-IC)

  • Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT)

  • Founding Member of Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI)

  • Regular member of iLDLT group (International Living Donor Liver Transplantation)

  • Ex-Expert Member of the Core committee for Acute Liver Failure listing in ZTCC Mumbai

  • Ex-Co-Chairperson of Liver Subcommittee in ZTCC Mumbai

  • South Asian Association for Study of the Liver (SAASL) - Women in Hepatology Forum

  • Executive Council Member (North Zone) – International Hepato-Pancreato- Biliary Association – Indian Chapter (IHPBA-IC), 2024-2026

  • Executive Council Member – Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterologist, 2024-2026

Area Of Interest

  • Living Donor and Deceased Donor Liver Transplants
  • Adult and Paediatric Liver Transplantation
  • Whole and Split Liver Transplant procedures
  • Comprehensive Acute Liver Failure Management
  • Liver Transplant for Acute on Chronic Liver Failure
  • Comprehensive management (including transplantation) for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Complex liver resections for liver cancer
  • Complex liver and bile duct surgery for biliary cancer
  • Advanced Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery for Benign and Malignant Diseases
  • Surgery for Portal Hypertension (Shunt surgery, Splenectomy and Devascularisation)
Awards and Recognition
  • Distinction/Honours in Anatomy (1990).
  • Winner of Intra-collegiate round of 5 th Indian Academy of Pediatrics Quiz (1991).
  • Merit scholarship recipient throughout MBBS course.
  • Best paper award at the ASI/ Bangalore Surgical Society Meet in 1998
  • Poster, Awarded 1 st prize “Early Exteriorization & Enteral feeding in Intestinal fistulae” - 41 st Annual conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology, in 2000, New Delhi.
  • Best E-Poster award for “Outcome Analysis of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma undergoing Liver Transplant - Downstaging versus Upfront Transplant – Is there any difference?” at the 6 th iLDLT Congress, 6th LTSI and 9th CLBS symposium- “Liver Transplant Beyond Borders”, 17 th -19 th November, 2023, Jaipur, India.
  • Second best award in Oral presentation for “Early Recipient Outcomes following Neo-Middle Hepatic Vein thrombosis in Modified Right Lobe Graft” at the 6 th iLDLT Congress, 6th LTSI and 9th CLBS symposium “Liver Transplant Beyond Borders” 17 th - 19 th November, 2023, Jaipur, India.
Research Publications
  • Published extensively (145) - subject of my interest both in indexed, non-indexed journals, and textbooks, as original papers, case series, case reports, abstracts & book chapters.

  • I have been an invited Faculty in various National and International Fora.

  • Lead Editor/Academic Editor – Special issue of International Journal of Surgical Oncology, Recent Trends in the Surgical Management of Liver Tumors, 2018.

  • Invited reviewer for many journals:

    • Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hepatology

    • World Journal of Transplantation

    • World Journal of Gastroenterology

    • World Journal Gastrointestinal Surgery

    • World Journal of Surgical Oncology

    • World Journal of Clinical Cases

    • BMJ case reports

    • Case reports in Hepatology

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