Viniyendra Pamecha MS, MBBS, MRCS, FRCS, FEBS

Professor Pamecha has over 20 years of clinical, academic, and teaching experience. He has been spearheading the department at ILBS over the last 10 years. Department has become a high-volume center for Liver Transplant and Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery under his leadership.   

He has successfully established a Liver Transplant program for both Adults and Children at ILBS, with results at par with the best International centers – a first for a public sector hospital in India. He has extensive experience in Hepato Pancreato Biliary cancer surgery. Under his leadership department has become one of the high-volume referral centers for complex resections for HPB malignancy.

He was instrumental in starting MCI-recognized super specialty M.Ch. training program in Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery – a first in the Country. Under his leadership the M.Ch. seats have increased by three times and the program has become one the most sought Super-specialty training program in the country. He has also trained teams from many public sector Institutes such as JIPMER Pondicherry, SGPGI, KGMC Lucknow, SMS Jaipur, IGIMS Patna, and RML New Delhi. Under his leadership, the Liver Transplant program at SMS Jaipur was started.

He is one of the rare doctors who after having such extensive experience from abroad have joined a public sector hospital. Before joining ILBS he worked in the UK, from 2003 to 2010, initially at the renowned Liver Unit of King's College Hospital (2003 - 2005) and subsequently at Sheila Sherlock Liver Centre, Royal Free Hospital (2005 - 2010). He was awarded Fellowships in Multi-organ Retrieval, Liver Transplantation & Hepato Pancreatic Biliary Surgery by the European Board of Surgery in 2009. He received the prestigious FRCS in Hepato Pancreatic Biliary Surgery in 2010. His clinical and basic science research has been published extensively in leading journals of the specialty.