• The Director of the Institute of Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery, Dr Thiagarajan S is a world renowned HPB and liver transplant surgeon who has an experience of 15 years in this field.
• This Thanjavur Medical College and PGI Chandigarh alumnus has a personal experience of more than 1,700 liver transplants and he has a cumulative experience of more than 3,500 liver transplants (both living and deceased donor as well as pediatric liver transplants) and 1,000 advanced complex open and laparoscopic hepatopancreatic biliary surgeries.
• He is proficient in all types of complex gastrointestinal, liver (both laparoscopic and open) and pancreatic biliary surgeries.
• He has been trained in advanced robotic and minimal access surgery at Severance Hospital (Yonsei University), Seoul, South Korea.
• He has also amassed a wealth of experience at Medanta - The Medicity, the country’s top liver transplant centre, as a Minimal Access, Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon.
• He has to his credit more than 90 peer reviewed scientific articles published in national and international journals and book chapters, and he has delivered more than 50 lectures including plenary lectures in various national and international fora.
• His special interests include living donor liver transplants, pediatric liver transplants and complex liver resections. He is an avid researcher who has won many awards and has trained hordes of liver transplant and HPB surgeons around the world.

Milestones:

• India’s first and world’s youngest domino liver transplant
• India’s smallest liver transplant recipient – 6 kg
• India’s first (and the world’s first reported) successful swap liver transplant
• World’s first chain of three simultaneous liver transplants – combined domino and swap
• India’s first successful ABO-incompatible liver transplant
• India’s first successful Intestinal Transplant
• India’s youngest and smallest ever recipient – 4 months, 4 kg – to receive successful liver transplant
• India’s first successful combined living donor liver and deceased donor kidney transplant
• India’s and the world’s smallest liver transplant recipient – 2.1 kg
• Largest ABO-incompatible liver transplant programme
• Largest Pediatric liver transplant program in India
• India’s first surgeon to perform 40 hybrid (small incision) 3D laparoscopic right lobe donor hepatectomies

• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery).
• MS (General Surgery).
• DNB (Diplomate of National Board) in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation.
• Senior Liver Transplant Fellowship

• Best Paper Award for the paper titled ‘C Reactive Protein and Thrombocytosis in Esophageal Carcinoma’.
• Best Special Mention (Poster presentation) for the paper titled ‘Clavien’s Grading in Gastrointestinal Surgery’.
• Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Hepatobiliary Tuberculosis – A Diagnostic Dilemma’.
• Young Investigator Award (Plenary presentation) for the topic ‘Infective complications in Living donor liver transplantation – Patterns and Factors Influencing Outcome’.
• ICMR Travel Award for plenary presentation.
• Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Predictors of Graft Survival in LDLT’.
• Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Accuracy of MRCP in biliary Anatomy in LDLT’.
• Best Poster Award for the topic ‘Rare Bacterial infections in LDLT’.
• Best Special Mention Paper Award for the topic ‘Toraymyxin Filtration in LDLT’.
• Best Oral Paper for the topic ‘‘Safe Optimization’ of GRWR and Remnant Liver Volume in LDLT: Interlobar vascular plane is not a watershed’.
• Best Paper Award for the paper titled ‘Techniques and outcomes of Portal vein thrombosis in Pediatric LDLT’
• Best Video Award for the video titled ‘Hybrid 3D Laparoscopic Right Lobe Donor Hepatectomy – First Series from South Asia’