A
brief profile of Dr. A. S. SOIN
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 MBBS
(AIIMS), MS (AIIMS), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Transplant
Surgery)-Cambridge, UK
Dr. Soin is presently a Senior Consultant
Multi Organ Transplant and Gastrointestinal Surgeon, and Head
of Liver Transplantation and Surgical Gastroenterology (Unit
3) at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), New Delhi, India.
At SGRH, he has established the country's busiest and most
successful liver transplant and complex liver surgery Department
which handles referred cases from all over India, rest of
South Asia, The Middle East and Africa. In his extensive experience
of 17 years as a Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary surgeon,
he has performed hundreds of liver transplants and more than
5000 other complex liver, gall bladder and bile duct surgeries.
He and his team currently
perform 10-12 live donor liver transplants every month with
results which are at par with the world's best centres i.e.,
a success rate of more than 90% for the patients and a 100% safety record
for the donors.
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He spent 12 years there gaining his MBBS and MS degrees followed
by specialist experience in Liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery.
During this period he also published a thesis on his research on
Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy which was later published as a paper
in an international journal.
He then went to U.K where within six months, he obtained
FRCS from both Glasgow and Edinburgh, and then trained and worked
in two of the world's most renowned centres for Liver and Biliary
Surgery, and Liver, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation for 6 years.
He became the first Indian and only the fifth surgeon in the UK
to qualify and obtain an Intercollegiate FRCS in Transplant Surgery.
He spent a year at University of Birmingham with Prof P McMaster
and 5 years at University of Cambridge with Prof Sir Roy Calne who
is acknowledged worldwide as one of the pioneers and founders of
modern transplantation. Initially as a trainee and then as Faculty
Lecturer at Cambridge, he accumulated an experience of conducting
hundreds of liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplants,
expertise in complex liver and pancreatic surgery, and open and
laparoscopic biliary surgery.
At Cambridge, he was a Surgical Tutor for the University
MBBS students and Faculty for Royal College Training courses in
Basic surgical skills and Laparoscopic Surgery for junior surgeons.
In addition, he conducted pioneering research in experimental intestinal
transplantation, and clinical liver transplantation. He has written
nearly 60 original research papers and book chapters in international
and national publications. He has delivered more than 160 papers
and invited lectures all over the world in major international meetings
in his field. He won the annual research awards of the British Transplantation
Society for the years 1994 and 1997.
He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of
Liver Transplantation and Immunology at the Kyoto University Hospital,
Kyoto, Japan in 1997 and Visiting Faculty at the Asan Medical Centre,
Seoul, Korea in 2000. These two centres are the world's most experienced
and renowned for living donor liver transplantation.
In the beginning of 1998, he gave up the opportunity
of a permanent Faculty post at University of Cambridge and chose
to return to India to establish a centre of excellence in liver
transplantation in his own country.
In India, he has the unique distinction of having
established two centres for liver transplantation in Delhi. Initially,
within 8-9 months of joining Delhi's Indraprastha Apollo Hospital,
he and his team established India's first successful liver transplant
programme. In the subsequent 2 years, his team attained acclaim
and recognition as being among South Asia's leading multiorgan transplant
units.
In pursuit of academic excellence, he subsequently
joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, where also he established a state-of-the
art and successful facility for liver transplantation.
Among his pioneering achievements is the credit of
having performed India's first ever successful cadaveric liver transplant
in Nov 1998. This patient is also the longest survivor after a liver
transplant in India. He then performed India's first successful
left lobe transplant (living donor) in 1999 and then also the country's
first successful adult-adult living donor right lobe liver transplant
in March 2000.
He was also the first surgeon to successfully perform
laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (removal of kidney by keyhole surgery)
in India. He has successfully used this technology for kidney transplantation
in nearly 250 cases so far, which is the among the largest experiences
of this technique outside of the USA. His team offer kidney transplantation
with high success rates which are comparable to those at the best
centres in the world.
He was voted by Outlook magazine in 1999 as one of
the four most prominent Sikhs with significant contributions in
the medical field in India.
After returning to India, he has kept up his academic
and research activities. Apart from postgraduate teaching at his
Institute, he served as Surgical Faculty to the Indian Medical Association
postgraduate teaching course. He is a one of the three Faculty Members
for one of India's most sought after super speciality DNB courses
in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation that is run
at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He has also been appointed
Faculty Member at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Basic
Surgical Skills Training courses to be held in Delhi quarterly from
September 2003.
He is one of the founder members and Trustee of the
HOPE (Human Organ Procurement and Education) Trust which is a non-governmental,
non-profit body aimed at spreading awareness about brain death and
organ donation in order to benefit hundreds of thousands who die
from organ failure in India annually. This organization is currently
functional in Delhi, but it aims to spread its activities to the
rest of the country in due course.
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