Priyadarshi Ranjan

While practising and helping numerous critically ill kidney disease patients in Fortis Mohali, he observed tremendous anguish, sadness and struggle for survival due to unbearable physical pain and financially crippling character of kidney disease in patients this made him very restless and moved him to such extent that he decided to help those less fortunate souls by founding an NGO. In 2015, with whatever resources were available to him he founded Chandigarh Kidney Foundation a not for profit charitable Non-Governmental Organization in Chandigarh (UT) currently acting President.

He founded and pioneered the Comprehensive Kidney Transplant Programme at Fortis Hospital, Mohali in 2011, currently, the chief of Urology and Kidney transplantation also serves as the academic chairman of the National Board for super speciality training in urology at the same hospital. He is also the Executive Director & Chairman of the TransCare group & services, which has announced a new beginning in the long-term outcome of transplant recipients by optimizing the Immunosuppression & follow-up protocols. Apart from Paediatric Kidney Transplants, Double or Triple Vessel Kidney Transplants, ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplants and Swap Kidney Transplants, he conceptualized a mobile application by the name of iKidney for the facilitation of Swap Kidney transplant. Dr Ranjan is an active faculty at numerous Urological and Kidney Transplantation forums across the globe and has 35 international publications in leading journals of the world. A frequent speaker at many transplant meetings and a reviewer of various international Journals, aside from authoring three books in the field of Urology & Kidney Transplant.

To further enhance his skills and introduce the concept of ABO-incompatible transplant in India, he committed himself to high-level training in mismatched ABO-incompatible kidney transplant at the Johns Hopkins Transplant centre under Professor Robert A. Montgomery, also trained on optimization of Immunosuppressive medicines from the Aula clinic, Barcelona, Spain. Fortis hospital, Mohali (Punjab, India) persuaded him to start a kidney transplant programme in 2011. While the world moved to Robotic surgeries, he was still handling surgeries conventionally, a strong supporter and promoter of modern technological progress in the field of medical sciences, he felt restless till he qualified and mastered the technique of Advanced Robotic surgery starting the Robotic kidney surgery programme in Punjab. He has mentored and trained several national and international super speciality fellows in the discipline of Urology and Kidney Transplant and took DNB Urology programme at Fortis to new heights.

In 1996, Dr Ranjan got admittance in King George's Medical College of Lucknow for MBBS graduate program and achieved it in 2002. From the same institute, he entered for specialization and endured MS (General Surgery). He topped his batch throughout his graduation (MBBS) & post-graduation (MS) with 14 gold and 7 silver medals. He was then chosen for super-specialized MCh (Magister-de-Chirurgie) Urology programme in the coveted PGI Chandigarh and undergone training in kidney surgery and kidney transplant, making him the most qualified and trained kidney transplant surgeons in India securing him a faculty position at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute, Lucknow, India.