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Shiv Kumar Sarin | |
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| Born | (1952-08-20)20 August 1952 (age 73) India |
| Occupation(s) | Gastroenterologist,Hepatologist |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize TWAS International Prize G-Files awards Om Prakash Bhasin Award |
Shiv Kumar Sarin is an Indian physician; ahepatologist and,gastroenterologist. Under of Delhi Government, he set up theInstitute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS); the largest liver hospital and a deemed LiverUniversity, and a WHO Centre. He has receivedShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize,[1] The World Academy of Science Prize, andPadma Bhushan in 2007.[2] He served as Chairman Board of Governors of Medical Council of India and shaped the New Medical Education Vision, including NEET and NEXT exams. He is a leader in science and served as the President of the Asian Pacific Association for study of Liver and is currently the President of theNational Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) of India (2021-2024).
Prof. Shiv Kumar Sarin, Chancellor, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, is an Indian physician; ahepatologist and,gastroenterologist, and public health advocate. He established theInstitute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) under Delhi Govt., a Liver University. Dr. Sarin is currently the President of theNational Academy of Medical Sciences (India).[3] He is also serving as an Adjunct Faculty of Molecular Medicine[4] atJawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
With 7 gold medals in M.B.B.S. and one in L.L.B (law), he continued academic excellence by being a Fogarty Fellow, Japanese SPH Fellow, and Fellow of all science academies in India. His research has enriched the discipline of Liver Diseases with nearly 850 publications, with an H-index of 116, and more than72,439 citations. His seminal work on band ligation for prevention of variceal bleeding in The NEJM[5] and Sarin’s Classification of Gastric Varices[6] are universally accepted. He described two new disease entities; Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure and Portal biliopathy. He is credited globally to give a large number of new protocols for the management of liver disease patients. His use of growth factors to stimulate bone marrow for liver regeneration as an alternative to liver transplant opened new treatment vistas. He pioneered fecal microbiota transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis.
He is the founder Chief-editor ofHepatology International, aSpringer Nature publication.[7] Dr. Sarin was able to set-up theAsian Pacific School of Hepatology at ILBS since 2012.
Policy Initiatives:
As Chairman of Board of Governors of Medical Council of India (MCI), he introduced seminal reforms in medical education, and scripted ‘Vision 2015’[8] of Medical Education in India. The ‘National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)’ and common exit examination (now called NEXT) were his brainchild and are serving well the country. He chaired policy initiatives forIntegrating Ayurveda and Modern System of Medicine at Niti Aayog.
He helped and led the GoI in 2021 into Integration ofNon-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) within the ambit of NCDs, makingIndia the first country globally (covered by the Lancet,[9] applauded by DG, WHO).
He initiated and guided the launch of the first Universal Hepatitis B vaccination program for newborns in India in Delhi, in 2001. He was instrumental in development of“National Viral Hepatitis Control Program”, implemented by the GoI in 2018. He helped set-up the National Liver Disease Bio-bank with the help of DBT.
Community service:
He championed to generate public awareness on Hepatitis B, by organizing "Yellow Ribbon Campaign" since 1998, observed as Hepatitis Awareness Day by GNCTD for 25 years. In 2013, he also initiated the “Healthy Liver-Healthy India”, a campaign to focus on liver health. Dr. Sarin launched“Empathy” (Empowering People Against Hepatitis), a program to give equal rights to more than 50 million people living with hepatitis [2018]. In 2020-2023 parliamentarians at the Sansad, pledged to eliminate hepatitis B and C from India. InitiatedHepiSchool (Hepatitis Initiated School) program [2018-19] for Delhi Govt. schools for protection of children from hepatitis. His “Liv Healthy” mission is core to major health programs [2018] and runs mobile Liver Vans in Delhi. Started SMiLES (Stronger India through a Million Health Educated Students) project for young and healthy India.
Set-up the First Plasma Bank in India for Covid patients at ILBS under the GNCTD. This 24x7 bank, served and issued more than 8,000 plasma units.
Dr. Sarin is a Senior Professor of Hepatology and Chancellor of ILBS University. He set-up a WHO collaborative center on liver diseases at ILBS and is its Director. He is a former President of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology, Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver, and the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) and is serving as Chairman of the Steering Committee of APASL.[10] He is also the Patron of the APASL-ACLF Research Consortium (AARC), having 26 member countries.
Sarin was awarded the Japanese Research Science Award in 1986[11] and the Hoechst Om Prakash Memorial Award in 1987.[12] He received the Ranbaxy Research Science Award in Medical Sciences in 1994 followed byShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of theCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the highest Indian award in the science category in 1996.[13] The Association of Physicians of India (API) awarded him theGifted Teacher Award in 1999 and Amrut Mody Unichem Award of theIndian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) reached him in 2003.[12] He received theTWAS Prize ofThe World Academy of Sciences in 2004, the Silver Jubilee Award of theMedical Council of India the same year and the FICCI Award of theFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 2005.[12] The Government of India included him in theRepublic Day honours list for the civilian award of thePadma Bhushan in 2007, the same year as he received theOm Prakash Bhasin Award[14] and he received theMahaveer Award of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation in 2008.[11] He is also a recipient of the Dhanvantri Medical Award, IEDRA Rashtriya Samman Puraskar, Lifetime Achievement Award of the Government of Delhi, Malaysia Liver Foundation Award and Vashisht Chikitsa Ratan Award of the Delhi Medical Association.[15]
Sarin, a 1988 Fogarty Fellow of theNational Institutes of Health,[11] had been elected as its Fellow by theNational Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) the previous year.[16] He is an elected fellow of several other science or medical academies such as theAmerican College of Gastroenterology (2002),Indian National Science Academy (2004),[11]Indian Academy of Sciences (2005),[17] andNational Academy of Medical Sciences (2005).[18] He has delivered several award orations; Dr. Dharamveer Datta Memorial Award Oration and Dr. Kunti and Om Prakash Award Oration of theIndian Council of Medical Research (2004), Netaji Oration by the Association of Physicians of India (2003), Dr. V. R. Khanolkar Oration of theNational Academy of Medical Sciences (2004) and Dr. Yellapragada Subba Row Memorial Award Oration of theIndian National Science Academy (2005) are some of the notable ones.[11]
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