About

Dr. Divakar Jain

M.B.B.S. M.S. F.A.C.S. D.N.B. (Surgical Gastroenterology)
Fellowship in HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation
Senior Consultant
HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation
KD Hospital, Ahmedabad.

Education & Training

Dr. Divakar Jain completed his primary medical education and specialization in surgery at B. J. Medical College in Ahmedabad. He completed his superspeciality training in Surgical Gastroenterology at Lakeshore Hospital & Medical Research Centre at Kochi and was awarded Diplomate of National Board by National Board of Examinations. He received his fellowship in Hepato-pancreatico-biliary Surgery & Liver Transplantation after one-year rigorous training at Fortis Hospital in Noida, Fortis Escorts Hospital in New Delhi, and Fortis Memorial Hospital & Research Centre in Gurugram. He is also a Fellow of American College of Surgeons.

Work experience

Dr. Divakar Jain worked for 5 years as Assistant Professor in Surgery at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Medical College in Rajkot, and Govt. Medical College in Surat. During this period, he trained many students in surgical skills. He has also worked in reputed institutes like Fortis Hospital in Noida, Fortis Escorts Hospital in New Delhi, FMRI in Gurugram, Dr. B. L. Kapur Memorial Hospital in New Delhi, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai and Zydus Hospital in Ahmedabad. During his 16 years as a surgeon, he has an experience of more than 800 living donor and cadaver liver transplants, ABO -incompatible liver transplants, pediatric liver transplants, and all kinds of complex liver, gall bladder, biliary and pancreatic surgeries.

Publications and presentations

  1. “Hepatic Artery Thrombosis after Living Donor Liver Transplantation-Looking beyond Re-Transplantation” e-poster presentation at “The 2017 Joint International Congress of ILTS, ELITA, LICAGE at Prague conducted during May 24-27, 2017
  2. Paper on “Pancreatic head masses – how to predict malignancy” at IASG conference in Kolkata, 2013
  3. Poster on “Total pancreatectomy – is it worthwhile” at IASG conference in Kolkata, 2013 4. Poster on “Does the level of esophageal anastomosis decide the postoperative morbidity in esophageal surgeries” at IASG conference in Kolkata, 2013
  4. Poster on “Construction and validation of a probability model to predict malignancy in tropical calcific pancreatitis patients with pancreatic head masses” at IHPBA conference in Hyderabad, 2015

Core Interests

Donor safety, Transplant immunology, pediatric liver transplant, pancreatic surgeries

Membership of professional societies

  • Founder member of Liver Transplantation Society of India (LTSI)
  • International Liver Transplantation Society

Our Mission

In the words of Doug Larson, “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening”. We are proud to say that we have become wiser by listening to what our patients have to say and finding solutions for their problems. We are available for our patients 24 hours a day in person and on phone call.

Health care is not just about curing a patient of his/her disease. It is about providing a better quality of life. We are here for you and with you in good times and bad times for life, like a family member.

We strive relentlessly to provide the best possible outcomes to our patients. And who can vouch for that, better than anyone but the patients themselves! Our results are among the best in the world in the field of liver, pancreatic, and biliary diseases, and liver transplantation. Our aim is to improve and improvise our results, so that we can set newer benchmarks over each passing day.

800 +

Liver Transplants

16 +

Years of Experience

2000 +

Hepatobiliary Surgery

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