Shiv Kumar Sarin
Shiv Kumar Sarin | |
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Born | (1952-08-20) 20 August 1952 (age 71) 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; an outstanding hepatologist (Liver specialist), gastroenterologist, translational scientist, accomplished researcher, mentor, and a gifted teacher. Under the aegis of Delhi Govt., he set-up the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS); the largest liver hospital and a deemed Liver University, and a WHO Centre. He is a prolific researcher with an H-index of 113. He has received Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize,[1] The World Academy of Science Prize, and Padma Bhushan in 2007. 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 the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) of India (2021–2024).
Biography
Prof. Shiv Kumar Sarin, Chancellor, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, is an astute clinician, a liver specialist, a front-line researcher, a gifted teacher and a public health champion. He is a visionary and established the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) under Delhi Govt., a Liver University, with most advanced hospital with therapeutic, academic and research outputs in liver diseases. Dr. Sarin is a leader in science and is currently the President of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India). He is also serving as an Adjunct Faculty of Molecular Medicine[2] at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
Academic career
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 800 publications, with an H-index of 113, and more than 65,000 citations]. His seminal work on band ligation for prevention of variceal bleeding in The NEJM[3] and Sarin's Classification of Gastric Varices[4] 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 of Hepatology International, a Springer Nature publication.[5] Dr. Sarin was able to set-up the Asian 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'[6] 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 for Integrating Ayurveda and Modern System of Medicine at Niti Aayog.
He helped and led the GoI in 2021 into Integration of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) within the ambit of NCDs, making India the first country globally (covered by the Lancet,[7] 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. Launch of pilot National Hepatitis B Vaccination program by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2002). 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. Initiated HepiSchool (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.
Positions
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.[8] He is also the Patron of the APASL-ACLF Research Consortium (AARC), having 26 member countries.
Awards and honors
Sarin was awarded the Japanese Research Science Award in 1986[9] and the Hoechst Om Prakash Memorial Award in 1987.[10] He received the Ranbaxy Research Science Award in Medical Sciences in 1994 followed by Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the highest Indian award in the science category in 1996.[11] The Association of Physicians of India (API) awarded him the Gifted Teacher Award in 1999 and Amrut Mody Unichem Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) reached him in 2003.[10] He received the TWAS Prize of The World Academy of Sciences in 2004, the Silver Jubilee Award of the Medical Council of India the same year and the FICCI Award of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 2005.[10] The Government of India included him in the 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[12] and he received the Mahaveer Award of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation in 2008.[9] 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.[13]
Sarin, a 1988 Fogarty Fellow of the National Institutes of Health,[9] had been elected as its Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) the previous year.[14] 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),[9] Indian Academy of Sciences (2005),[15] and National Academy of Medical Sciences (2005).[16] 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.[9]
References
- ^ "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". ssbprize.gov.in. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Adjunct Faculty | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University". jnu.ac.in. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Sarin, Shiv Kumar (1999). "Comparison of endoscopic ligation and propranolol for the primary prevention of variceal bleeding". The New England Journal of Medicine. 340 (13): 988–993. doi:10.1056/NEJM199904013401302. PMID 10099140.
- ^ Sarin, Shiv K.; Lahoti, Deepak; Saxena, Sanjay P.; Murthy, Nandguri S.; Makwana, Uday K. (December 1992). "Prevalence, Classification and Natural History of Gastric Varices: A Long–Term Follow–Up Study in 568 Portal Hypertension Patients". Hepatology. 16 (6): 1343–1349. doi:10.1002/hep.1840160607. ISSN 0270-9139. PMID 1446890.
- ^ "Hepatology International". SpringerLink. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20130717115215/http://www.mciindia.org/tools/announcement/MCI_booklet.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
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(help) - ^ Sarin, Shiv Kumar; Prasad, Manya; Ramalingam, Archana; Kapil, Umesh (1 October 2021). "Integration of public health measures for NAFLD into India's national programme for NCDs". The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 6 (10): 777–778. doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(21)00264-8. ISSN 2468-1253. PMID 34509189.
- ^ "The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver [APASL] » Steering Committee". apasl.info. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Indian Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "NAMS Fellow" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "Om Prakash Bhasin Award". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "NASI Fellow". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "IAS fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "List of Fellows: July 2005" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
External links
- "Dr. S. K. Sarin on World Hepatititis Day (28 July 2012)". Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2016 – via YouTube.
- Sarin, Shiv Kumar (29 July 2014). "World Hepatitis Day". Radio Amity (Interview). Interviewed by Samiksha Mehra, Amit Bhaskar. Noida: 107.8 FM. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
Further reading
- S K Sarin, Hess (December 2000). Transfusion Associated Hepatitis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention. CBS. ISBN 978-8123905860.
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