Vijay Saradhi Gorantla MD, PhD, FRCS

Dr. Vijay Gorantla is the President-Elect of the ISVCA and Associate Professor of Surgery, Ophthalmology, and Bioengineering at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Health Sciences in India and pursued clinical training at King George Hospital. After surgical training in the United Kingdom, he completed microsurgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the University of Louisville. He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Louisville with a dissertation focused on the transplantation immunology of composite tissue allografts. He was a post-doctoral fellow in hand surgery at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute and played a key role in the hand transplant program at the University of Louisville.