Full Name
Arvinder Singh Soin
Job Title
Group Chairman & Chief Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon
Company
Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker Bio
Brief profile of Dr. Arvinder S. Soin
Pioneer Liver Transplant Surgeon, Longevity & Health AI Expert, Innovator, Founder, Investor, Healthcare Influencer
Group Chairman & Chief Liver Transplant Surgeon, Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Gurugram, Lucknow, Patna, Mumbai, India.
Founder, Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer
BeyondAge Innovations
Qualifications: MBBS (AIIMS), MS (AIIMS), FRCS (Glas and Edin), FRCS (Intercollegiate, Transplant Surgery, Cambridge University, UK), D. Sc
Surgical Leadership Diploma, Harvard Medical School, USA
Pioneering Contribution to Liver Transplantation in India
• Recognized the world over for pioneering liver transplantation and live donor liver transplant (LDLT) in India, and putting India on the global liver transplant map
• Performed the first successful liver transplant in India on Nov 6, 1998 (adult DDLT)
• Performed the country’s first successful pediatric liver Transplant, Nov 15, 1998
• Established three major LT centers at Apollo Hospital (1998-2,001), SGRH (2001-2010), and Medanta-The Medicity (2010-present)
• Performed the highest - > 4500 liver transplants in India including over 500 pediatric transplants: with > 95% success.
• Credited with most of the firsts in living donor liver transplant in India - first left lobe, right lobe, dual lobe, swap, simultaneous liver and kidney transplants, ABO-incompatible, domino transplant, smallest (2kg) & oldest recipient (79 y) etc.
• One of the few worldwide to establish a successful Robotic Live Liver Donor Surgery program and has performed 400 robotic liver donor surgeries
• Trained over 200 liver transplant fellows, who now run more than 90 centers in India
• Trained visiting transplant doctors and paramedics from more than 50 centers in India
Mentor to new centers
• Have trained surgeons, hepatologists, intensivists, anesthetists, key staff and set up 28 liver transplant centers in India and abroad overt the past 25 years
Global Expert for Consensus Guidelines on Clinical Management Protocols
• Expert for 14 Global consensus guidelines from 2014-2025
Publications, lectures
• Over 270 original research articles and book chapters. Over 1300 lectures globally. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=soin+a)
• Editor of Elsevier book entitled ‘Liver Transplantation’, 2012
Awards, orations, honors
• Padma Shri (2010) (honoured with the highest civilian award by President of India)
• RD Birla Outstanding Clinician of the Year Award for the year 2010
• Zee TV - Swasth Bharat Samman Award for pioneering Liver Transplantation, 2011
• 7 other National and 3 international awards
• Awarded and delivered 21 Orations
• Honorary Fellowship, KGMC, Lucknow, 2007
• Visiting Professor, KEM College and Hospital, Mumbai, 2009 onwards
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), Amity University, 2025
Innovation in Healthcare, Entrepreneurship
• Innovated several surgical techniques – published 2000-2024
• Founder, Chairman, Chief Scientific Officer: BeyondAge Innovations Pvt Ltd (Longevity Company)
• Senior Scientific Advisor, Medanta Institute of Education and Research
• Scientific Advisor, Lead Liver Scientist, Shareholder: Y Trap. Inc. (Biotech company), USA
• Scientific Advisor and Investor, Zebra Medical Vision (AI company), Israel
• Founder, self-diagnostic and monitoring app ‘LiverPedia’ 2016-18
• Founder, ‘NEOLIVER’ Lab – projects: hepatic organoids, and humanized mice models of HCC
• Board of Director and Co-Founder: AAYNA Clinics, AKAB Healthcare Pvt Ltd
Positions in Professional Organizations
• Executive Council Member, International Liver Transplant Society, 2022 onwards
• Founder President, Liver Transplant Society of India 2018-19
• Senior Executive Councilor, International Live Donor Liver Transplant Society 2018-present
• Executive Committee Member – IASG – 4 years
• Vice-President, Indian Society of Transplantation, 3 years
• Member, Vice-Chair, then Chair, Membership & Communications Committee, International Liver Transplantation Society – 4 years
Research
• Primary investigator:
o National multi-center RCT on TCZ in COVID-19 (published as first author in The Lancet Resp Med 2021)
o International multi-center RCTs (resulted in 8 publications so far)
Protocol CRAD001H2307 (Everolimus – 2014-17)
Protocol CLJN452A2202 (NASH –LJN452: 2018-2021)
• Supervised 138 clinical research projects
• Supervised 3 PhDs – ‘Nutrition in Liver Transplantation’, ‘Navigational Liver Surgery’, IIT(D), “Factors influencing Long-term outcome among LT recipients”
Teaching, examining, conferences, workshops
• Surgical Tutor (for 33 years) – 1. AIIMS, New Delhi, 2. Cambridge University, UK, 3. SGRH, New Delhi, 4. Medanta Institute of Education and Research, Gurugram, India
• Examiner (2002 to date) : 2 Royal Colleges (UK) - FRCS, MRCS; DNB GI Surgery, FNB Liver Transplantation
• Organizing Chairperson: 27 liver congresses and workshops (1994-2024)
Pioneer Liver Transplant Surgeon, Longevity & Health AI Expert, Innovator, Founder, Investor, Healthcare Influencer
Group Chairman & Chief Liver Transplant Surgeon, Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Gurugram, Lucknow, Patna, Mumbai, India.
Founder, Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer
BeyondAge Innovations
Qualifications: MBBS (AIIMS), MS (AIIMS), FRCS (Glas and Edin), FRCS (Intercollegiate, Transplant Surgery, Cambridge University, UK), D. Sc
Surgical Leadership Diploma, Harvard Medical School, USA
Pioneering Contribution to Liver Transplantation in India
• Recognized the world over for pioneering liver transplantation and live donor liver transplant (LDLT) in India, and putting India on the global liver transplant map
• Performed the first successful liver transplant in India on Nov 6, 1998 (adult DDLT)
• Performed the country’s first successful pediatric liver Transplant, Nov 15, 1998
• Established three major LT centers at Apollo Hospital (1998-2,001), SGRH (2001-2010), and Medanta-The Medicity (2010-present)
• Performed the highest - > 4500 liver transplants in India including over 500 pediatric transplants: with > 95% success.
• Credited with most of the firsts in living donor liver transplant in India - first left lobe, right lobe, dual lobe, swap, simultaneous liver and kidney transplants, ABO-incompatible, domino transplant, smallest (2kg) & oldest recipient (79 y) etc.
• One of the few worldwide to establish a successful Robotic Live Liver Donor Surgery program and has performed 400 robotic liver donor surgeries
• Trained over 200 liver transplant fellows, who now run more than 90 centers in India
• Trained visiting transplant doctors and paramedics from more than 50 centers in India
Mentor to new centers
• Have trained surgeons, hepatologists, intensivists, anesthetists, key staff and set up 28 liver transplant centers in India and abroad overt the past 25 years
Global Expert for Consensus Guidelines on Clinical Management Protocols
• Expert for 14 Global consensus guidelines from 2014-2025
Publications, lectures
• Over 270 original research articles and book chapters. Over 1300 lectures globally. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=soin+a)
• Editor of Elsevier book entitled ‘Liver Transplantation’, 2012
Awards, orations, honors
• Padma Shri (2010) (honoured with the highest civilian award by President of India)
• RD Birla Outstanding Clinician of the Year Award for the year 2010
• Zee TV - Swasth Bharat Samman Award for pioneering Liver Transplantation, 2011
• 7 other National and 3 international awards
• Awarded and delivered 21 Orations
• Honorary Fellowship, KGMC, Lucknow, 2007
• Visiting Professor, KEM College and Hospital, Mumbai, 2009 onwards
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), Amity University, 2025
Innovation in Healthcare, Entrepreneurship
• Innovated several surgical techniques – published 2000-2024
• Founder, Chairman, Chief Scientific Officer: BeyondAge Innovations Pvt Ltd (Longevity Company)
• Senior Scientific Advisor, Medanta Institute of Education and Research
• Scientific Advisor, Lead Liver Scientist, Shareholder: Y Trap. Inc. (Biotech company), USA
• Scientific Advisor and Investor, Zebra Medical Vision (AI company), Israel
• Founder, self-diagnostic and monitoring app ‘LiverPedia’ 2016-18
• Founder, ‘NEOLIVER’ Lab – projects: hepatic organoids, and humanized mice models of HCC
• Board of Director and Co-Founder: AAYNA Clinics, AKAB Healthcare Pvt Ltd
Positions in Professional Organizations
• Executive Council Member, International Liver Transplant Society, 2022 onwards
• Founder President, Liver Transplant Society of India 2018-19
• Senior Executive Councilor, International Live Donor Liver Transplant Society 2018-present
• Executive Committee Member – IASG – 4 years
• Vice-President, Indian Society of Transplantation, 3 years
• Member, Vice-Chair, then Chair, Membership & Communications Committee, International Liver Transplantation Society – 4 years
Research
• Primary investigator:
o National multi-center RCT on TCZ in COVID-19 (published as first author in The Lancet Resp Med 2021)
o International multi-center RCTs (resulted in 8 publications so far)
Protocol CRAD001H2307 (Everolimus – 2014-17)
Protocol CLJN452A2202 (NASH –LJN452: 2018-2021)
• Supervised 138 clinical research projects
• Supervised 3 PhDs – ‘Nutrition in Liver Transplantation’, ‘Navigational Liver Surgery’, IIT(D), “Factors influencing Long-term outcome among LT recipients”
Teaching, examining, conferences, workshops
• Surgical Tutor (for 33 years) – 1. AIIMS, New Delhi, 2. Cambridge University, UK, 3. SGRH, New Delhi, 4. Medanta Institute of Education and Research, Gurugram, India
• Examiner (2002 to date) : 2 Royal Colleges (UK) - FRCS, MRCS; DNB GI Surgery, FNB Liver Transplantation
• Organizing Chairperson: 27 liver congresses and workshops (1994-2024)
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