About

Dr Shyam B Bansal is the Director of Medanta’s Institute of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant. Dr Bansal has been trained in Nephrology in SGPGIMS Lucknow, which is considered one of the best institutes for Nephrology in India. Dr Bansal established the department of Nephrology in Medical College Gwalior in 2006. Subsequently, he has worked as a consultant in Fortis hospital and joined the Department of Nephrology at Medanta Hospital, Gurugram since its inception in 2009 and has been instrumental in establishing this department as one of the leading centres for Nephrology and Kidney Transplant in India. He is also the coordinator of the DNB teaching program in Nephrology and is actively involved in the training of new Nephrology doctors. Dr Bansal has been involved in care of more than 2000 kidney transplant recipients till now. Dr Bansal is also an avid researcher and has published extensively in the field of Nephrology and kidney transplantation. Some of his notable research work includes Kidney Transplantation in HIV positive patients, the First report and subsequent series of ABO-incompatible kidney transplants in India, Steroid free kidney transplant in India, paired kidney transplantation in India etc