Shiv Kumar Sarin

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Shiv Kumar Sarin
Born (1952-08-20) 20 August 1952 (age 71)
India
Occupation(s)
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
TWAS International Prize
G-Files awards
Om Prakash Bhasin Award

Shiv Kumar Sarin is an Indian

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize[1] and the Padma Bhushan.[2]
He served as chairman of the Board of Governors of Medical Council of India. He was the president of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver and founder of Asian Pacific School of Hepatology.

Biography

Shiv Kumar Sarin graduated from the S.M.S.Medical College, Jaipur, in 1974, obtained his MD in internal medicine in 1978 and specialized with in gastroenterology  from

AIIMS, New Delhi in 1981.[3] After serving as lecturer at AIIMS, he joined G B Pant hospital under the Delhi University, where he became the Professor and Head of Gastroenterology in 1997.[4] He set up the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences.[5] He also serves as an Adjunct faculty of Molecular Medicine at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
, Delhi.

Career

The Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences

Sarin's researches have helped describe two major liver diseases, Portal Biliopathy and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure.[6][7] He has developed or significantly contributed to the development of several treatment protocols for liver diseases such as the band ligation to prevent variceal hemorrhage. He has worked on gastric varices, and their classification bears his name as Sarin's Classification of Gastric Varices.[8][9] Seventeen major treatment protocols have been credited to him including five major Asian Pacific treatment guidelines in liver disease, and the model he proposed on "endotoxemia induced portal hypertension and liver disease" is reported to have been universally accepted.[10] His work has assisted in the understanding of Chronic HBV Infection, liver cancer and the B and C variants of hepatitis.[6] His studies on "acute-on-chronic liver failure" disease and its therapy using Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), a glycoprotein, have been successful in clinical trials.[11] He has also contributed in analyzing the mother-baby transmission of Hepatitis B and its pathogenesis.[6]

Sarin is one of the initiators of the

Lancet and Annals of Internal Medicine.[10] He is the founder editor of Hepatology International, a Springer publication,[13] and has mentored 90 post-doctoral and 25 doctoral students.[10]

Positions

Sarin served as the chairman of the Board of Governors of the

World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) and is a board member of the Institute of Translational Hepatology, Beijing and Asian Pacific Digestive Week Federation (APDWF), Singapore.[10] He is also a Collaborating Investigator of the APASL-ACLF Research Consortium, a forum of the experts on Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) disease from the Asia Pacific region.[16]

Awards and honors

K. Shankarnarayanan, the Union Home Minister, Shri Sushilkumar Shinde and Padmavibhushan Dr. B. K. Goyal felicitated Dr. Shivkumar Sarin by “41th Dhanvantari Award 2013”, organized by Dhanvantari Medical Foundation

Sarin was awarded the Japanese Research Science Award in 1986

Republic Day honours list for the civilian award of the Padma Bhushan in 2007, the same year as he received the Om Prakash Bhasin Award[18] and he received the Mahaveer Award of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation in 2008.[4] 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.[6]

Sarin, a 1988 Fogarty Fellow of the National Institutes of Health,[4] had been elected as its Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) the previous year.[19] He is an elected fellow of several other science or medical academies such as the American College of Gastroenterology (2002), Indian National Science Academy (2004),[4] Indian Academy of Sciences (2005),[20] and National Academy of Medical Sciences (2005).[21] He has delivered several award orations; Dr. Dharamveer Datta Memorial Award Oration and Dr. Kunti and Om Prakash Award Oration of the Indian Council of Medical Research (2004), Netaji Oration by the Association of Physicians of India (2003), Dr. V. R. Khanolkar Oration of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (2004) and Dr. Yellapragada Subba Row Memorial Award Oration of the Indian National Science Academy (2005) are some of the notable ones.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Senior Professor and Head, Department of Hepatology Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Science (ILBS)". APASL ACLF Research Consortium. 2016. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Indian Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "ILBS Home". Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d "S K Sarin on APASL-ACLF Research Consortium". APASL-ACLF Research Consortium. 2016. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  7. S2CID 20919939.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  8. PMID 22942544
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  9. PMID 23899955
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  10. ^ a b c d e f g h "Chettinad Health City Medical Journal profile" (PDF). Chettinad Health City Medical Journal. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  11. ^ "New therapy holds promise for treating chronic liver failure". Zee News. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  12. ^ Medical Council of India (March 2011). "Vision 2015" (PDF). MCI Booklet. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2013.
  13. ISSN 1936-0533
    . Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  14. ^ "Brief Resume" (PDF). Asia Pacific Advanced Network. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  15. ^ "Steering Committee". APASL. 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  16. ^ "Collaborating Investigator". APASL-ACLF Research Consortium. 2016. Archived from the original on 26 May 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  17. ^ a b c "NAMS Fellow" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  18. ^ "Om Prakash Bhasin Award". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  19. ^ "NASI Fellow". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  20. ^ "IAS fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  21. ^ "List of Fellows: July 2005" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.

External links

Further reading

  • S K Sarin, Hess (December 2000). Transfusion Associated Hepatitis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention. CBS.
    ISBN 978-8123905860
    .
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