Dr. Sanjay Goja

Dr Sanjay Goja is the Program Director and Clinical Lead - Liver Transplantation, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Robotic Liver Surgery at Narayana Health. He carries a rich experience of more than 28 years in Gastrointestinal and Hepato- pancreatico-biliary Surgery (HPB). He has more than 15 years of experience in Liver Transplantation. He has performed over 2500 liver transplants including both living and deceased donor liver transplants. His areas of special expertise have been living donor liver surgeries, paediatric transplants and minimally invasive liver surgeries. Besides he has a keen interest and expertise in complex surgeries for the liver, biliary system and pancreas requiring vascular resection and reconstructions, and doing such procedures using a robotic platform. A big part of his operating time is dedicated to surgeries for cancers of the liver, gall bladder, biliary tract (cholangiocarcinoma) and pancreas. 

He is credited with performing 1st robotic hepatectomy in India in 2015.

Dr Goja and his team currently perform 10-15 live donor liver transplants every month with 95% success - results which are at par with the world's best centres. The success is paediatric transplants is 98%. Apart from treating patients from all over India, he treats patients from the rest of South Asia, The Middle East and Africa.

As the lead liver transplantation surgeon, he oversees the dedicated liver transplantation treatment units at: 

1. Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Gurgaon 

2. Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, Narayana Health, Bangalore

3. Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Jaipur

4. SRCC Children Hospital, Mumbai (Specialised paediatric liver treatment facility)

5. Rabindranath Tagore Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Narayana Health, Kolkata

6. Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Delhi

These hospitals are equipped with the most advanced medical infrastructure for carrying out both liver transplantation surgeries & complex liver and other HPB surgeries. 

Formerly, Dr Goja has been associated with Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi (2008-2010)  Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon as Senior Consultant Surgeon – HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation (2010-2018) 

Academic Credentials of Dr Sanjay Goja

• Doctor Goja is an alumnus of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Raipur (MBBS) and Pt B D Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak (MS). He completed his Senior Residency in General Surgery from Rajendra Prasad Medical College, Himachal Pradesh which was followed by a DNB in Surgical Gastroenterology and Clinical Fellowship in Liver Transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. 
• He has a Fellowship from the European Board (UEMS) of Surgery in Multi-organ and Liver Transplantation (FEBS). He has obtained a Diploma of Fellowship from Glasgow (FRCS) & American College of Surgeons (FACS). 
• Dr Goja had Advanced Laparoscopic Liver Resection training from Ethicon Institute, Cincinnati, USA.  
• He has his Da Vinci (Robotic) Console Surgeon training from Intuitive Surgical, Asia Direct, Seoul South Korea. 
• He underwent Robotic HPB Surgery training from Yonsei Medical Centre, Seoul, South Korea

Clinical Research

Dr Sanjay Goja has pursued deep clinical research in the field of HPB diseases liver transplantation and is credited with 40+ articles including 12 articles as the first and corresponding author in renowned high indexed international medical journals like Liver Transplantation, Transplant International, Clinical Transplantation and Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg.

He has also presented his research at prominent International Conferences including IHPBA 2008, ILTS Sydney 2013, CRSA Congress Chicago 2015, Inaugural ACRS Hongkong 2015, ACRS 2016 HICO, Korea and International Joint Congress ILTS, ELITA and LICAGE San Francisco 2011. 

He presently sits on the Editorial Board of ‘The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery’ – the official journal of an international organisation, CRSA (Clinical Robotic Surgery Association).

Area of Expertise

Dr Goja actively performs complex surgeries including: 

1. Living Donor Liver Transplant

2. Cadaveric Liver Transplant

3. Combined Liver and Kidney Transplant

4. Paediatric Liver Transplant 

5. Domino Liver Transplant

6. Swap Liver Transplant

7. ABO Incompatible Liver Transplant

8. Orthotopic Liver Transplant

9. Auxiliary Liver Transplant 

10. Robotic Liver Hepatectomy

11. Minimally Invasive HPB Surgery (Robotic, Laparoscopic method)

12. Split Liver Transplant

His expertise lies in the treatment of diseases like Chronic Liver Disease, Liver cancer, Wilson's Disease, Liver Cysts, Acute Liver Failure, Liver Cirrhosis, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Biliary Atresia, Liver Haemangioma, Budd Chiari Syndrome, Crigler Najjar Syndrome, bile duct cancer, gall bladder cancer and more such complicated diseases of the hepatobiliary system.

His passion reflects his deep interest in the areas of minimally invasive donor surgeries,  HPB surgeries, patient & donor surgery safety and a compassionate approach towards affordable liver transplantation.