Dr. Gandhe Sridhar — Director of Nephrology & Transplantation in Hyderabad

Dr. Gandhe Sridhar is Director of Nephrology and Transplantation at Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, in Hyderabad, with more than 20 years of experience. His profile records nephrology together with kidney transplantation.

His list is transplant-heavy. Alongside chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, glomerulonephritis, haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, continuous renal replacement therapy and percutaneous renal biopsy, he performs living donor, deceased donor and ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation, and covers pre-transplant evaluation, post-transplant follow-up and graft dysfunction management.

The volumes on his record are specific. He has been involved in more than 600 renal transplants, which his profile places in the top tier of practising transplant nephrologists in south India, and more than 90 of those were ABO-incompatible, a category that requires the recipient's antibodies to be removed before an otherwise mismatched donor can be used. He was also the first to establish the SWAP kidney transplantation registry in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the mechanism by which incompatible pairs are matched with each other.

His research record includes nine indexed publications, among them a randomised controlled trial in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and work on focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in renal allografts in the Indian Journal of Nephrology and on the clinical and histological correlation of diabetic nephropathy. He has given more than 20 international conference presentations across five countries, including the World Congress of Nephrology at Milan in 2009 and Vancouver in 2011, the ISN Asian Chapter Meeting at Beijing in 2009 and the ISPD World Congress in Mexico in 2010.

He has also worked at Star Hospitals in Banjara Hills and Nanakramguda.