About Dr. Rahul Saxena
Dr. Rahul Saxena is a renowned Multi-Organ Transplant Surgeon 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)
Multi-organ 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 its liver transplant team.
He was a Visiting Fellow at the Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, 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, Pancreas transplant, Kidney transplant and complex hepatobiliary surgeries in both adults & children.
Before coming to Nagpur, he worked as a consultant at one of the largest & busiest transplant unit in Western Maharashtra at Sahyadri Speciality Hospital, Pune. He was instrumental in starting the Living donor liver Transplant Program at Sahyadri Hospital in 2016-17 and this team performed around 65 liver transplants (both DDLT and LDLT) in the very first year of its inception. He was also part of this team when it performed the first pancreas transplant in Pune in 2017.
In June 2017, he gave up the opportunity of a Faculty post at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute (SGPGI), Lucknow and chose to return to Central India (Nagpur) to establish a Center of Excellence in Multi-organ transplantation for providing high level expertise & affordable, personalized and comprehensive transplant services to the deserving patients in this part of India.
He is credited with performing the first Deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT), first living donor liver transplant (LDLT) as well as the first combined liver-kidney transplant (CKLT) in Central India. Within just one year of the start, his team has successfully performed more than 25 liver transplants with a success rate of around 95%; this is comparable to some of the major high-volume transplant centers in India & abroad.
His mission in life is to make liver transplant affordable & within reach of the common Indian masses.
Dr. Rahul Saxena has a rich experience in :
Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation
Combined Liver- Kidney transplantation
Pancreas Transplantation
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
Autologous Islet Cell Transplantation
Modified Multi visceral organ Retrievals and Transplantation
Laparoscopic Liver Resections
Complex HPB Procedures
Advanced Gastro-intestinal procedures
He is passionate about Liver Transplantation in adults & children & counts complex hepatobiliary surgeries as his primary interest. He team has been very active in the critical management of patients with Decompensated End-stage-liver-disease (ESLD) with a multidisciplinary approach.
He is member of several prestigious professional organisations:
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 (ILTS)
Life Member of Liver Transplantation Society of India (LTSI)
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 Multi-organ Transplantation.
