Dr. Shyam Bihari Bansal

Dr Shyam B Bansal is the Director of Medanta Institute of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant. Dr Bansal has been trained in Nephrology in SGPGIMS Lucknow, which is considered one of the best institutes for Nephrology in India. Dr Bansal established the Department of Nephrology at Medical College Gwalior 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. He is also the coordinator of the DNB teaching program in Nephrology and is actively involved in the training of new Nephrology doctors. Dr Bansal has been involved in the care of more than 2000 kidney transplant recipients till now. Dr Bansal 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.