Shiv Kumar SARIN

Senior Professor, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India

Prof Shiv Kumar SARIN is the Senior Professor, Hepatology, Chancellor and Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences. He is the Director, WHO Collaborative Centre on Chronic Liver diseases and Viral Hepatitis at ILBS, and President, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India).

Prof. SARIN has contributed internationally to develop Hepatology Discipline by developing new treatment protocols in Liver diseases and has published over 800 articles and 13 books. He has helped develop 20 major guidelines; including six major Asian Pacific Treatment Guidelines in Liver diseases. His research interests include Portal Hypertension, Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure, Alcoholic Hepatitis, Liver Regeneration, Gut microbiome, NAFLD, Liver cancer.

Prof. SARIN has shown leadership roles in being the President of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology, Indian Association for the Study of the Liver, Asian Pacific Association of Liver, and Chairman Steering Committee of the APASL. He has been awarded the prestigious Henry L. Bockus Medal by World Gastroenterology Organization, as also Ralph Kohn Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Hepatology, London, Prof. Telfer Reynolds Memorial Oration at the University of Southern California. He is also a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, The World Academy of Medical Sciences (TWAS) International Prize, EASL International Recognition Award, and the ‘Best Teacher’ Award, besides being a founding Editor of Hepatology International.