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ISOT-1.1 South Asian transplant infectious disease guidelines for solid organ transplant candidates, recipients, and donors

Shyam Bansal MD,DM, India

Director and Head
Nephrology and Kidney Transplant
Medanta-Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Biography

I am currently working as Director and Head of the Department of Nephrology at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon, which is a multispeciality hospital of 1200 beds in the National capital region Delhi. Dr Bansal has been trained in Nephrology at SGPGIMS Lucknow, considered one of India's best institutes for Nephrology. I am also the coordinator of the DNB Nephrology teaching program in Nephrology and am actively involved in training new Nephrology doctors. Dr Bansal has been involved in the care of more than 3000 kidney transplant recipients till now. Dr Bansal is also an avid researcher and has published more than 100 original articles and many book chapters in the field of Nephrology and kidney transplantation. Some of his notable research work includes the first report of Kidney Transplantation in an HIV-positive patient in India, the First Report and subsequent series of ABO-incompatible kidney transplants in India, the first report of Steroid free kidney transplant in India, paired kidney transplantation in India etc. Recently he published a supplementation on Transplant Infectious disease guidelines for South Asia in the Indian Journal of Transplantation as guest editor and a summary of these guidelines has been published in `Transplantation`. I have published multiple articles in Infection in Transplant patients including HIV, Histoplasmosis, Mucormycosis, Dengue, Scrub Typhus etc.

 

I am also the current general secretary of the Indian Society of Nephrology. I have been the past secretary of the Delhi Nephrology Society and an executive member of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation. I am also a member of the educational committee of transplantation, a member South Asia Regional Board International Society of Nephrology and have been appointed as Chair of the local organising team World Congress of Nephrology 2025 to be held in India.

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