Dr. Chetan Kalal — Associate Director of Hepatology & Liver Transplant in Mumbai

Dr. Chetan Kalal is Associate Director of Hepatology and Liver Transplant at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 14 years of experience. His profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with surgical gastroenterology for liver transplant.

His practice is entirely on the liver. He works in liver transplant and manages chronic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, chronic hepatitis B and C, autoimmune liver diseases and refractory ascites.

He read MBBS through MUHS University at Dhule in the 2001 to 2006 batch and took his MD at Seth GS Medical College under MUHS in Mumbai. He holds a DM in hepatology and completed a post doctoral fellowship in transplant medicine.

His hospital record runs through several of the liver programmes in Mumbai and one outside it. Alongside Gleneagles Hospital in Parel he has been at Max Nanavati Hospital, Sir HN Reliance Hospital and Research Centre, Global Hospital and Seth GS Medical College, all in Mumbai, at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi, and at VKPIM in Ahmednagar.

His research record is international in reach. He received AASLD Foundation Young Investigator Travel Awards in 2016 for Boston and 2017 for Washington DC, and full bursaries for top ten percent abstracts in Slovenia and Barcelona in 2016 and Amsterdam in 2017. He became a member of the European Association for the Study of Liver Disease in April 2016.

He has published over 20 original research papers in leading national and international journals and has contributed to multiple global clinical trials on new drug development, which places him on the trial side of hepatology as well as the clinical one.