Dr. Punit Singla

Dr Punit Singla is Director and Head of the Department of the Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery at Marengo Asia Hospitals, Faridabad, Marengo CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad, Marengo Asia Hospitals, Gurugram. With 23 years of experience, he was previously associated with Medanta the Medicity, Jaypee Hospital, Noida, and Venkateshwar Hospital, Dwarka, Delhi. In 2014, he established and raised the liver transplant program at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram.

When he joined Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Ludhiana in 2017, he helped to build the liver transplant team. Under his leadership and vision, the team launched the first independent living donor liver transplant program in Punjab, India. He also conducted an urgent liver transplant for acute liver failure.

Doctor Punit has performed more than 1500 liver transplants, including young pediatric cases needing reduced grafts, Living donor liver transplants with IVC replacement, Transplants with complex anatomy and ABO incompatible liver transplant.

The speciality interests of Dr Singla are:

1. Living Donor Liver Transplant
2. Minimal Invasive Liver Donor Surgery
3. Paediatric Liver Transplant
4. Liver Cancer

He is also an active member of the following organisations:

1. Association of Surgeons of India
2. Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology 
3. Liver Transplantation Society Of India
4. International Liver Transplant Society
5. AMASI

Dr Punit Singla completed his MBBS from Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, in 2000, followed by a Master's in General Surgery from Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, in 2006. He later pursued a DNB in Surgical Gastroenterology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, and completed a prestigious fellowship in Liver Transplantation at Medanta Institute, Gurgaon. 

He further enhanced his expertise by completing a Laparoscopy course at GEM Institute, Coimbatore, in August 2014 and a Micro-vascular Anastomosis course in January 2016 in Chennai, adding advanced skills to his surgical proficiency in hepatobiliary and liver transplant procedures.

Dr Punit has actively contributed to the online medical community through several webinars. In May 2021, he led a webinar on "Liver Care in COVID Times" in Delhi, discussing crucial liver care strategies during the pandemic. In October 2020, he presented on "Anidulafungin in Invasive Candidiasis." In September 2020, he spoke about "Managing Bacterial Infections with Penem Antibiotics," both aimed at advancing treatment approaches in complex medical conditions.

Dr Singla has contributed to several prestigious publications, including Ex Vivo Reconstruction of Right Lobe Liver Graft with Dacron Caval Interposition Graft for BUDD Chiari Syndrome without Venovenous Bypass" published in ACTA Scientific Clinical Research, "Complications of Living Donor Liver Transplantation" in the Textbook of Surgical Gastroenterology.

Doctor Punit Singla has been recognised with several honours and awards. In 2005, he secured the First Prize in the Inter-College Surgical Quiz on Coloproctology at JLN Medical College, Ajmer, and received the Best Poster Award at the IASG Conference in Mumbai in 2009.

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