INTRODUCTION:

Dr Shyam B Bansal is the Director of Medanta Institute of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant. SGPGIMS Lucknow, regarded as one of the top nephrology institutes in India, is where he received his training. The Department of Nephrology at Medical College Gwalior was founded by him in 2006. Subsequently, he has worked as a consultant at Fortis Hospital, Noida and joined the Department of Nephrology at Medanta Hospital, Gurugram since its inception in 2009 and has been instrumental in establishing this department as one of the leading centres for Nephrology and Kidney Transplant in India. In addition, he oversees the DNB teaching program in nephrology and actively participates in the education of aspiring nephrologists. Up to now, he has assisted in the treatment of almost 2000 recipients of kidney transplants. He is also an avid researcher and has published more than 50 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.

Experience

• Every year, he hosts the Kidney Transplant Update, bringing together experts from top global centers to educate transplant physicians in India and other South Asian nations.
• Twice, in 2013 and 2017, he served as the organizing secretary for the annual meeting of the Indian Society of Nephrology.
• He is an executive member of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation as well as the Indian Society of Nephrology, serving as the society’s honorary secretary.

Specialization and Expertise

• Dialysis: Hemodialysis, CAPD, Hemodiafiltration and CRRT
• Critical Care Nephrology
• Chronic kidney diseases
• Acute Kidney Injury
• Kidney Transplantation

Milestones Achieved

• FRCP: Fellow Royal College of Physicians, London, 2020.
• FASN: Fellow American Society of Nephrology, 2020.
• FISN: Fellow Indian Society of Nephrology, 2016.
• Honorary Secretary, Delhi Nephrology Society since 2017.
• Accoladed with the best Oral paper award in 2005 at the Indian Society of Nephrology Conference on `Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection’ in Kidney Transplant recipients, 2005.