Dr Suresh Hanji is a European board-certified, internationally trained consultant Renal Transplantation and vascular access surgeon (for ESRD patients)
He obtained both his medical graduation, MBBS in 1998, and postgraduate degree, MS (General Surgery) from J.J.M Medical College, Karnataka, India in 2002. He has more than 20 years of surgical experience with more than 15 years being in Renal Transplantation and Vascular Access Surgery for dialysis access in End-stage renal disease patients.
He joined as an Assistant professor in the Department of General Surgery at the prestigious St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore. India where he developed his interest in Renal transplantation and vascular access surgery for dialysis access for Renal failure patients. To gain more experience, he traveled overseas for 2 years to work as a senior fellow at Manchester Royal Free Hospital, UK before returning back to St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India as Associate Professor/Consultant surgeon in the Department of General Surgery / Renal Transplantation. He has vast teaching experience for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students during his tenure here. He has also been an examiner for undergraduate medical students.
Subsequently, to pursue his career in Renal transplantation/Vascular access surgery, he returned to the UK and worked at world-renowned hospitals like Guy’s & St.Thomas Hospital and Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK . He obtained a European Board Certified Fellowship (FEBS) in Renal transplantation & abdominal multi-organ retrieval. He has been involved in various research projects and to his credit, he has presented at various regional, national, and international conferences/ forums and also has publications in reputed national and international journals.
- Renal transplantation both living and cadaveric.
- Laparoscopic (minimal access surgery)/Open donor nephrectomy.
- Vascular access surgery like AV fistula /AV graft for hemodialysis access including complex vascular access surgeries like revision/redo procedures to salvage AV Fistula/AV Graft.
- Laparoscopic/open peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion for end-stage renal disease patients
- Abdominal Multi-organ procurement from deceased donors for the purpose of organ transplantation from both donor after brain death (DBD) and donor after cardiac death (DCD)
- Poster-Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis (TRAS): Characteristics and Long term Follow up of a Single Center Experience -Presented at Charing Cross Vascular Surgery Meet at London, UK in 2024
- Poster -Transplantation of Deceased Donor Horseshoe Kidney-Presented at British Transplant Society Annual Congress at Edinburgh, UK in 2023
- Poster -Salvage of deceased donor renal transplant with iatrogenic external iliac artery dissection following catheter angiogram-Presented at British Transplant Society Annual Congress at Edinburgh, UK in 2023
- Poster-“Renal Auto-transplantation preserves renal function in carefully selected cases” at16th Congress of European Society for Organ Transplantation Vienna, Austria in September 2013
- Publication -Subclavian vein Stent Fracture treated using the stent within a stent technique. in Journal of Vascular Access.
- Publication: “A cost-effective Alternative To Synthetic Graft –Vein TranspositionAVF” In Indian Journal of Transplantation.(January –March 2011)
- Poster – “AV Transposition Fistulae –A Cost-effective Alternative toGraft” at Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation held on October 2010 at Hyderabad, India. Graft” at the Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation in October 2010 in Hyderabad, India
- Best Paper Award-“Breast Reconstruction in Breast Conservation Surgery” in May 2004 by Surgical Society of Bangalore A.S.I.C.C, India.
- Poster – “Pancreatic Necrosectomy” in May 2004 by Surgical Society of Bangalore A.S.I.C.C, India.
- The Association of Surgeons of India. (Membership #FL16710).
- Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India.(Membership # 3562).
- Indian Medical Association. (Membership KAR/7622/5/1345/136957/2008-09/L).
- British Transplantation Society.
- European Society of Organ Transplantation.
