Dr. Vibha Varma

Dr. Vibha Varma is a Liver Transplant and Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgeon at Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai. Lilavati describes more than two decades of dedicated expertise and reports that she has participated in over 3,000 liver transplants and complex hepatobiliary-pancreatic procedures. The current hospital profile does not publish a more precise numerical years-of-experience figure.

Her qualifications include MBBS, MS and DNB in General Surgery, DNB in Surgical Gastroenterology, MRCSEd in the United Kingdom and fellowship training in organ transplantation involving liver, pancreas and small bowel. Her practice covers living- and deceased-donor liver transplantation, adult and paediatric transplantation, and complex HPB surgery for both benign and malignant disease.

Lilavati lists expertise in surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma, biliary cancer, pancreatic disease, acute liver failure and portal hypertension. She also has experience with minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic living-donor surgery. Transplant assessment may require liver-function trends, cross-sectional imaging, tumour staging where relevant, donor evaluation and review of cardiovascular, infectious and nutritional risk.

Her professional memberships include ASI, IASG, AMASI, ISOT and the Liver Transplant Society of India. Lilavati reports 145 publications and academic contributions across journals, abstracts, case reports and textbook chapters, along with national and international teaching activity.

For referral or second opinion, patients should provide recent CT/MRI, pathology when applicable, endoscopy reports, transplant evaluations and previous operative records for review.