Professional overview
About Dr. Shyam Bihari Bansal
He organises Kidney Transplant Update yearly for the transplant professionals in India and South Asian countries, which includes faculty from leading centres in World.
He has been the organising secretary of the Indian society of Nephrology annual meeting twice in 2013 and 2017.
He is the honorary secretary of the Delhi Nephrology Society and an executive member of both the Indian society of Nephrology and the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation.
Dr Shyam B Bansal is the Director of Medanta’s Institute of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant. Dr Bansal has been trained in Nephrology in SGPGIMS Lucknow, which is considered one of the best institutes for Nephrology in India. Dr Bansal established the department of Nephrology in Medical College Gwalior in 2006. Subsequently, he has worked as a consultant in Fortis hospital and joined the Department of Nephrology at Medanta Hospital, Gurugram since its inception in 2009 and has been instrumental in establishing this department as one of the leading centres for Nephrology and Kidney Transplant in India. He is also the coordinator of the DNB teaching program in Nephrology and is actively involved in the training of new Nephrology doctors. Dr Bansal has been involved in care of more than 2000 kidney transplant recipients till now. Dr Bansal is also an avid researcher and has published extensively in the field of Nephrology and kidney transplantation. Some of his notable research work includes Kidney Transplantation in HIV positive patients, the First report and subsequent series of ABO-incompatible kidney transplants in India, Steroid free kidney transplant in India, paired kidney transplantation in India etc.
Clinical focus
Areas of expertise
- Dialysis: Hemodialysis, CAPD, Hemodiafiltration and CRRT
Training and experience
Qualifications
- F.R.C.P. Royal College of Physicians, London 2020
- D.M. (Nephrology) Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 2005
- M.D. (General Medicine) NSCB Medical College & Hospital, Jabalpur 1999
- M.B.B.S. GR Medical College, Gwalior 1996
Professional network
Memberships
- Executive member: Indian society of Nephrology and Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
- Member: American Society of Nephrology
- Member: Transplantation Society
- Member: International Society of Nephrology