About Dr. Joy Varghese

Dr Joy Varghese is currently the Director of Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology at Gleneagles Health City, Chennai, India. He is the one among the senior most transplant hepatologist in India. Dr Joy has been in the medical field for more than a decade and successfully performed more than 1500 liver transplantations. He has played vital role in setting up liver transplant program in both Government as well as Private institutions at Tamil Nadu & Kerala. Having a vast experience in the field of general hepatology, Dr Joy has delivered more than 1000 lectures on liver disease / liver transplantation in India and abroad. He is the first person in India who initiated therapeutic plasma exchange in various liver conditions and successfully performed hepatitis B virus related liver transplantation using hyper immune plasma. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in the field of liver diseases.

Academic posts:

• Program Director – Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI) Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology, Gleneagles Health City, Chennai
• Program Director – Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology, Gleneagles Health City, Chennai affiliated by The Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai
• National Board Examiner for DNB (Gastroenterology)
• Teaching faculty at SRM medical university, Chennai

Achievements