Clinical Interests
- Kidney transplantation
- Liver transplantation
- Pancreas transplantation
- Molecular mechanisms of injury repair and renewal and their links to organ regeneration and oncogenesis
- Dialysis access surgery
- Living kidney donation
- Endocrine surgery: parathyroidectomy, adrenalectomy
- Hepatobiliary surgery
Research Interests
- Organ transplantation and immunosuppression
- Social and racial disparities in transplantation care
- Ischemia reperfusion injury
- Organ donation improvement strategies
- Renal tumor biology
- BK virus nephropathy in renal transplant recipients
Education
- MD, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Training
- Fellowship, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Molecular Pathology (Research), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Fellowship, Abdominal Organ Transplantation Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
- Residency, General Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
- Residency, General Surgery and Urology, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery - Surgery
Memberships
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Society of Transplantation
- Association of Academic Surgeons
- Association of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgeons of America
Awards and Honors
- Top Doctors, Surgery, Philadelphia magazine, 2024
- Johns Hopkins Surgery Research Day Award for Best Paper
- Baltimore Academy of Surgery Best Paper Award
- Johns Hopkins Pathology Young Investigators Award for Excellence in Basic Research
- Daniel Nathans Young Investigator Award, Johns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins Pathology Young Investigators Award for Excellence in Basic Research
- American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Award
- Johns Hopkins Pathology Young Investigators Day Award for Excellence in Basic Research
- National Board of Medical Examiners of India Gold Medal in Urology
- The J. N. Tata Award for Higher Education of Indians Sir Dorab Tata Scholarship for Higher Education
- University of Bombay, Dr. Dipak L. Kothari, Gold Medal in Urology
- First Prize, Dr. G. M. Phadke Traveling Fellowship Competition of the Urological Society of India
- Travel Award III International Congress on Transplantation and Kidney Diseases
- University of Bombay Gold Medal in Surgery
- Wockhardt Prize for Ranking First in General Surgery Boards
- Dr. A. V. Baliga Prize, Ranking First at the General Surgery Boards of the University of Bombay
- Best Undergraduate Student Award
- Dr. Alka Pathare Prize Awarded for Excellence in Biochemistry
- Nair Golden Jubillee Research Foundation Prize in Biochemistry
- Dr. Jagdish S. Kalgutkar Prize in Human Anatomy
- Ripon Prize - Class Valedictorian St. Xavier’s High School
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