Dr. Sanjiv Saigal works as Principal Director & Head of Hepatology and Liver Transplant Medicine at Max Super Specialty Hospital, Saket, Delhi, India. As a skilled hepatologist, he has spearheaded the medical team of liver transplantation in India for over 24 years, with an experience in dealing with more than 5000 liver transplants, both living donor and cadaveric. He has over 175 peer-reviewed publications in reputed Journals, and has been the Editor of two books in Hepatology. He has received numerous awards, including the Calcutta University Gold Medal, National Pfizer Award and Human Care Award, and is an INLAKS Scholar trained at King's College Hospital, London. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP, Edinburgh) and a Fellow of the same (FRCP, Edinburgh). He is also the Fellow of the Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (Fellow-INASL), and the Master of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (Master-ISG). He has been the Governing Council member of the Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL). He has been a Member of several taskforces of INASL, such as Alcoholic Liver Disease, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Acute Liver Failure & MASLD, and has regularly conducted Liver Transplant SIG meetings at the Annual INASL meetings.
He conducts Transplant Hepatology Fellowship program as the Course Director for over a decade now. He also conducts online certificate courses on management of various aspects of liver diseases. He is the Associate Editor of Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hepatology. He has been actively involved with the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) as its Education Committee Member (2017-2021), Member of Infectious disease SIG (2022-2025) and Membership & Communications Committee (2023-2026). He is currently the President of Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI).
Dr Dinesh Jothimani qualified from Madras Medical college and pursued his higher medical followed by higher specialist (Hepatology) training in Birmingham in the UK. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK and a Fellow of Royal college of Physicians and surgeons, Glasgow. He is a member of Indian association for the study of the liver (INASL), Indian society of gastroenterology (ISG), International Liver transplant society (ILTS) and member of Liver transplant society of India (LTSI). He is the Director of Hepatology at the Institute of Liver disease and transplantation, Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre (RIMC), affiliated to Bharat Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India,
Dr Jothimani loves sharing knowledge, spreading technical skills through simplified teaching.
He is the course director for Transplant Hepatology Fellowship program at his institute, where he actively trains and guides Gastroenterologists and hepatologists. He has several publications and actively collaborates with other centers nationally and internationally.
