Priyadarshi Ranjan

Priyadarshi Ranjan is an Indian urologist, robotic surgery specialist, kidney transplant surgeon, and researcher. He is commonly perceived as the "Kidney Man of India". He is among the top 10 transplant surgeons across the globe who is certified of performing a Robotic Kidney Transplant. Currently, regarded as one of the pioneering leads for kidney transplantation across the globe.

He founded and pioneered the Comprehensive Kidney Transplant Programme at Fortis Hospital, Mohali in 2011, currently, the chief of Urology and Kidney transplantation also serves as the academic chairman of the National Board for super speciality training in urology at the same hospital. He is also the Executive Director & Chairman of the TransCare group & services, which has announced a new beginning in the long-term outcome of transplant recipients by optimising the Immunosuppression & follow-up protocols. Apart from Paediatric Kidney Transplants, Double or Triple Vessel Kidney Transplants, ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplants and Swap Kidney Transplants, he conceptualised a mobile application by the name of "iKidney" for the facilitation of [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/programs/kidney/incompatible/paired_kidney_exchange.html swap kidney transplant]. Ranjan is on faculty at numerous Urological and Kidney Transplantation forums across the globe and has 35 international publications in medical journals. A frequent speaker at many transplant meetings and a reviewer of various international Journals, aside from authoring three books in the field of uUrology and kidney transplantation.

Ranjan has ascended a new era of kidney transplantation in Mohali, Punjab to a global level ministering patient from worldwide shores for kidney transplant surgery. The list includes recently performed kidney transplant of former Kenyan Governor Philip Ruto Latilolo Rotino, apart from tutoring various international surgeons in the specialty he is identified in the field of transplantation for taking up and successfully managing most difficult transplant cases such as children, sensitised or blood group incompatible, obese patients and has launched the latest robotic kidney transplant in the region. He has performed the first cadaver kidney transplant in the state of Punjab, embarking cadaver transplant in the state. Listed in the Limca book of records for challenging and unmanageable kidney transplant on the heaviest patient in India.

He is among the few transplant specialist surgeons in India to start and develop ABO incompatible (when the blood of donor and recipient does not match) and swap kidney programmes. He was invited by the Government of Mauritania to establish a transplant facility there. Provided by Wikipedia