Dr. Sandeep Guleria

Dr. Sandeep Guleria
Dr. Sandeep Guleria

Designation of Dr. Sandeep Guleria

Dr. Sandeep Guleria 
Transplant Surgeon, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, GI Surgeon, General Surgeon
Senior Consultant – Transplant Surgery
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi

Profile Snapshot of Dr. Sandeep Guleria

  • With more than 33 years of experience, Padma Shri awardee Dr. Sandeep Guleria is renowned for being the key member of the team that conducted the first two Kidney Pancreas Transplants in India.
  • Currently, he is a top-notch Kidney Transplant Specialist working at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi.
  • He has worked as an additional professor, in the department of surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Currently, he is a senior consultant surgeon in General Surgery, GI Surgery, and transplantation.
  • Dr. Guleria puts emphasis on diet and lifestyle changes as they are quite an important part of treatment in treating early kidney diseases.
  • His special area of interest is organ transplantation. He has spent around two years in the United Kingdom at the Royal Free Hospital in London where he was actively involved in the renal transplant program. From London, he was appointed as a Transplant Fellow in the Academic Surgical Unit at St. James’s University Hospital. There, he trained extensively in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation.
  • Every year, he performs around about 70 live-related renal transplants.
  • He also started a simultaneous kidney and Pancreas Transplant program in India and performed the first successful simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant in the country.

Dr. Sandeep Guleria’s Expertise

Work Experience of Dr. Sandeep Guleria

  • Junior Resident, Dept. Of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Senior Resident, Deptt of Surgery, India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
  • Senior Fellow, (Senior Registrar) Dept. Of Organ Transplantation, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds
  • Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
  • Consultant Surgeon, Organ Transplantation and Surgery St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, U.K.
  • Additional Professor Department of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
  • Professor, Department of Surgery India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
  • Senior Fellow, (Senior Registrar) Dept. Of Organ Transplantation, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds
  • Currently working at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi

Dr. Sandeep Guleria’s Qualifications

  • MBBS
  • MS
  • DNB
  • FRCS (Ed)
  • FRCS (Glas)
  • FRCP (Edin)
  • MNAMS

Memberships of Dr. Sandeep Guleria

  • Association Of Surgeons Of India (11947)
  • Indian Society of Nephrology
  • Indian Society of Emergency Services Delhi Nephrology Society
  • Association of Minimal Invasive surgeons of India
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
  • India Hernia Society Society of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons of India (SELSI)
  • Member: Transplantation Society
  • Life Member: Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
  • Indian Society of Emergency Services
  • Delhi Nephrology Society

Awards & Recognitions received by Dr. Sandeep Guleria

  • In 2019, Dr. Sandeep Guleria was honored with India’s fourth-highest civilian award Padma Shri by the President of India.
  • Smt. Rukmani Gopalkrishnan Award for standing First in Surgery
  • University College of Medical Sciences, Distinguished Alumni Award 1996
  • Awarded the “Luminary Award” by the IMA South Delhi Branch in Delhi in Recognition of his outstanding contribution rendered to the medical profession and the community
  • Awarded Exemplary Contribution Award by Indian Medical Association
  • Awarded the Himachal Gaurav Himalayan Jagriti March
  • ATLS Accredited Provider 2011 Identified as Instructor Potential
  • Led the team that did the first two Kidney Pancreas Transplants in India
  • Invited by the Government of Nepal in order to set up the Renal Transplant Program at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu Nepal.
  • Pioneered Cadaveric Renal Transplantation in New Delhi.
  • Introduced the “DONOR CARD” in the city of New Delhi
  • Set up the Pediatric Transplant Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Set up the Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy program at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

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