Dr. S. Sahariah — Senior Consultant & Head of Organ Transplantation Centre in Hyderabad

Dr. S. Sahariah is Senior Consultant and Head of the Organ Transplantation Centre at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 48 years of experience. His profile records urology together with the transplantation side of surgical gastroenterology.

Transplantation is most of his list. He performs kidney transplant surgery, living donor and deceased donor kidney transplant and ABO-incompatible kidney transplant, and also treats BPH or enlarged prostate and overactive bladder.

His training runs from Assam to Chandigarh and then to the United States. He passed the higher secondary examination at Jorhat, Assam, in 1962, read MBBS at Gauhati University and completed a surgical residency at Government Medical College, Gauhati. Both his MS in surgery and his MCh in urology were taken at PGI Chandigarh. He was an ICMR research fellow in the Department of Renal Transplantation at the University of Minnesota from November 1976 to August 1978, and held fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.

His record credits him with performing the first renal transplantation in Andhra Pradesh in 1983 and in Assam, with the first cadaveric renal transplantation in multiple states of India, and with an award for outstanding contribution to cadaveric organ transplant programme development.

He is a life member of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, the Urological Society of India and the Association of Surgeons of India, a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and a selected member of The Transplantation Society.