Rohan Chaudhary
Dr Rohan Chaudhary
Associate Director
Qualification
  • MBBS
  • MS (Gen Surg)
Experience
10 Years
Gender
Male
Language Spoken
English
Hindi
Marathi
Location
Mumbai,Parel
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About

Dr. R.J. Chaudhary is a highly experienced Transplant Surgeon with over 10 years of expertise in Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery. He has performed more than 1,000 liver transplants in adults and pediatric patients with a 95% success rate, along with 500+ complex hepatobiliary surgeries with a 98% success rate. Renowned for excellent outcomes, he ensures minimal complications in recipient surgeries and 100% safety in living donor surgeries, maintaining one of the lowest biliary complication rates (<4%).

 

He specializes in minimally invasive robotic liver surgeries, including Robotic Living Donor Hepatectomy, and is recognized in India for performing minimal incision (midline, small incision) donor hepatectomy surgeries (>200 surgeries). Dr. Chaudhary has trained over 50 surgeons in liver transplantation and serves as an international faculty in his field. He has numerous publications in indexed journals and has contributed significantly to advancements in liver transplant surgery.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Living Donor & Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation
  • Combined Liver–Kidney Transplantation
  • Robotic Liver Surgery
  • Complex Hepatobiliary Procedures including surgery for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma, HCC, Portal Hypertension (Shunt Surgery), Biliary Atresia, Choledochal Cysts, Biliary Strictures, and Biliary Tract Malignancies

 

Scientific Memberships:

  • Life Member, Association of Surgeons of India
  • Life Member, Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology
  • Life Member, Association of Minimal Access Surgery of India (AMASI)
  • Life Member, Indian Chapter of IHPBA
  • IHPBA (International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association)
  • International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS)
  • Founder Member, Liver Transplant Society of India

Experience

  • Associate Director, Transplant Surgery – Nanavati Max Superspeciality Hospital, Mumbai, 2024
  • Consultant & Co-lead, Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplant Surgeon – Apollo Hospitals (Navi Mumbai, Ahmedabad & Nasik), 2022–2024
  • Consultant, Liver Transplant Surgery – Medanta Liver Institute, Gurgaon, 2018–2022
  • Consultant Incharge, Liver Transplant Program – Medanta Lucknow, 2021–2022
  • Visiting Consultant Surgeon – HN Reliance Hospital, Mumbai (Medanta Team), 2019–2022

Achievements

  • 100+ pediatric liver transplants, including the smallest recipient of 4 kg
  • 50+ complex procedures: SWAP LDLT, ABO-incompatible LDLT, Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant, Domino LT, Split DDLT, Reduced DDLT
  • First successful triple SWAP liver transplant in India, 2022
  • Top Downloaded Paper, Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, Feb 2020
  • Travel grant to South Korea – Asan Medical Center, Nov 2019
  • Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery Scholarship, Apr 2017
  • IASG Bursary Award, Aug 2016

Qualifications

  • MBBS – Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, 2005
  • MS (General Surgery) – BJMC & Sassoon Group of Hospitals, Pune, 2011
  • Fellowship in Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplant Surgery – Medanta Liver Institute, 2014–2016
  • Senior Clinical Fellowship in Liver Transplant Surgery – Medanta Liver Institute, 2017
  • Visiting Fellowship – Tokyo Women's Medical University, 2017 (3 months)
  • FACS – Fellowship of American College of Surgeons, 2021

Publications

  1. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Ryota Higuchi, Masato Nagino, Michiaki Unno, Masayuki Ohtsuka, Itaru Endo, Satoshi Hirano, Katsuhiko Uesaka, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Toshifumi Wakai, Shinji Uemoto, Masakazu Yamamoto: Survey of preoperative management protocol for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma at 10 Japanese high-volume centers with a combined experience of 2,778 cases. Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences 09/2019; 26(11). DOI:10.1002/jhbp.668
  2. Arvinder Singh Soin, Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Hirak Pahari, Elizabeth A Pomfret: A Worldwide Survey of Live Liver Donor Selection Policies at 24 Centers with a Combined Experience of 19,009 Adult Living Donor Liver Transplants. Transplantation 10/2018; 103(2):1. DOI:10.1097/TP.0000000000002475
  3. Sanjay Goja, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Manoj Kumar Singh, Arvinder Singh Soin: Transition from open to robotic assisted liver resection: A retrospective comparative study. Is experience of laparoscopic liver resections needed? 09/2019; 2(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.lers.2019.08.002
  4. Ryota Higuchi, Takehisa Yazawa, Shuichiro Uemura, Wataru Izumo, Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Toru Furukawa, Masakazu Yamamoto: ENBD is Associated with Decreased Tumor Dissemination Compared to PTBD in Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 07/2017; 21(Suppl 3). DOI:10.1007/s11605-017-3492-0
  5. H Pahari, R J Chaudhary, S Thiagarajan, V Raut, R Babu, P Bhangui, S Goja, A Rastogi, V Vohra, A S Soin: Hepatic Venous and Inferior Vena Cava Morphology No Longer a Barrier to Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome: Surgical Techniques and Outcomes. Transplantation Proceedings 10/2016; 2016(48):2732-2737. DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.08.009
  6. Rohan J. Chaudhary, Narendra S. Choudhary, Neeraj Saraf, Dheeraj Gautam, Tarun Piplani, Srinivasan Thiagrajan, Prashant Bhangui, Sanjiv Saigal, Amit Rastogi, Arvinder S. Soin: Delayed Graft Dysfunction due to Invasive Hepatic Mucormycosis After Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.jceh.2020.04.008
  7. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary: (2018), Newsletter, January 2018. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci, 25: 112–114. DOI:10.1002/jhbp.527
  8. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Rastogi A, Pahari H, Thiagarajan S, Bhangui P, Goja S, Gautam D, Piplani T, Soin AS: Leiomyosarcoma of Intrahepatic IVC – Treatment with Radical Resection and IVC Replacement with PTFE Graft: A Case Report and Review of Literature. DOI:10.26420/austinjclincaserep.2017.1118
  9. Sanjay Goja, Manoj K Singh, Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Arvinder S Soin: Robotic-assisted right hepatectomy via anterior approach for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. 05/2017; 21(2):80-83. DOI:10.14701/ahbps.2017.21.2.80
  10. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Amit Rastogi, Manoj K Singh, Arvinder Singh Soin: Right Lobe Donor Hepatectomy using Upper Midline Incision. (https://youtu.be/fv8Irj5U3EM). Tropical gastroenterology 09/2016; 37(3 (supplement 1)):69
  11. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Amit Rastogi, Prashant Bhangui, Thiagarajan S, V Raut, Sanjay Goja, Manoj Singh, A Srivastav, R Babu, AS Soin: Liver resection for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma– surgical planning and outcome: A single centre experience. Tropical gastroenterology 09/2016; 37(3):86
  12. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Prashant Bhangui, Sanjay Yadav, Amit Rastogi, Arvinder Singh Soin: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma involving all the major hepatic veins– liver resection with MHV reconstruction. Tropical gastroenterology 09/2016; 37(3 (Supplement 1)):68
  13. N Mohan, Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Rahul Roy, C. Kumari, A. Rastogi, S. Goja, P. Bhangui, V. Vohra, A. Soin: Does Outcome of Liver Transplantation in Post Kasai Biliary Atresia (BA) Differ from Non-Operated BA Cases? Tropical gastroenterology 09/2016; 37(3 (Supplement 1)):79
  14. A S. Soin, H. Pahari, R. J. Chaudhary, A. Rastogi, S. Goja, S. Saigal, N. Saraf, P. Bhangui, S. K. Ramachandra, M. Balachandran, N. Mohan, C. Narendra, S. Thiagarajan, B. Raghavendra, V. Raut, M. Singh, T. Piplani, S. Baijal, G. Dheeraj, V. Vohra: Expansion of Donor and Recipient Selection Criteria in Live Donor Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of 1245 Cases. Transplantation 05/2016; 100(5s):187
  15. AS. Soin, H. Pahari, R. J. Chaudhary, A. Rastogi, S. Goja, S. Saigal, N. Saraf, P. Bhangui, S. K. Ramachandra, M. Balachandran, N. Mohan, C. Narendra, S. Thiagarajan, B. Raghavendra, V. Raut, M. Singh, T. Piplani, S. Baijal, G. Dheeraj, V. Vohra: Surgical Technique and Complications in 1245 Consecutive Live Donor Liver Transplants. Transplantation 05/2016; 100(5s):94
  16. S Yadav, Neeraj Saraf, Jayant Saha, Kamal Yadav, Sujeet Saha, Rohan J. Choudhary, Prashant Bhangui, S. Thiagarajan, Amit Rastogi, A.S. Soin: 25. Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Grade-3 Acute on Chronic Liver Failure. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology 05/2019; 9(3):434-435. DOI: 10.1016/j.jceh.2019.04.028
  17. S Yadav, Amit Rastogi, Kamal Yadav, Rohan J. Choudhary, Jayant Saha, Sujeet Saha, Prashant Bhangui, S. Thiagarajan, A.S. Soin: 35. Ex-vivo Organ Perfusion Technique for Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation (DDLT). Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology 05/2019; 9(3):439-440. DOI: 10.1016/j.jceh.2019.04.038
  18. Kamal S. Yadav, S Yadav, Sujeet Saha, Sanjeev Rohatgi, Rohan C., Thiagarajan, Prashant Bhangui, Amit Rastogi, S. Saigal, N. Saraf, N. Choudhary, A.S. Soin: 43. Strategies and Outcome in Small for Size Grafts in Living Donor Liver Transplant. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology 05/2019; 9(3):443-444. DOI: 10.1016/j.jceh.2019.04.046
  19. Minakshi Bhosale, Ajay Chandanwale, Aarti Kinikar, Dasmit Singh, Rohan Chaudhary: Impact of splenectomy on quality of life of children with β-thalassemia. 01/2015; 5(4):322. DOI:10.4103/2230-8598.165963
  20. Rohan Jagat Chaudhary, Vandana Dube, Chirag Bhansali, Amit Gupta, Sachin Balwantkar: Parosteal lipoma of humerus—A rare case. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports 11/2013; 4(12). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2013.09.007

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