Best Kidney Transplant Surgeon in India
Last updated: April 15, 2026
MediTrawell collaborates with the best Kidney transplant surgeons in India, who are Board certified, internationally qualified and have years of experience behind them. These surgeons operate at state-of-the-art hospitals that have dedicated organ transplant units and are classified as top kidney transplant hospitals in India.
Here are our best Kidney transplant surgeons in India:
Dr. Madhav Kamat
Urosurgeon & Kidney Transplant Surgeon
MBBS, MS, FRCS (Canada)
Mumbai
Dr. Madhav Kamat is the most coveted and senior honorary urology consultant working at the Department of Urology in Jaslok Hospital.
He holds a very vast clinical and surgical experience of more than 45 years with his keen interest in Endoscopic prostate surgery, surgical management of urinary calculi, and kidney transplant.
He has an excellent record in academics and completed his Masters in Surgery and FRCS in Urology following which he completed a Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He also did the Certification from the American Board of Urology, USA, and has affiliations to several prestigious medical bodies including Societe Internationale D’Urologie, International College of Surgeons, American Urological Association, Association of Surgeons of India, and National Kidney Foundation of India.
Dr Sandeep Guleria
Kidney Transplant Surgeon
MBBS, MS, DNB, FRCS (Edin.), FRCS (Eng.), FRCS (Glas.), DNBE, PLAB, MNAMS
New Delhi
Dr. Sandeep Guleria is a highly experienced transplant surgeon with 33 years of experience in the field of solid organ transplantation. He is a professor in the Department of Surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, as well as a kidney transplant specialist at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi.
Dr. Guleria is one of the distinct surgeons to have successfully performed more than 10,000 successful kidney transplants and consulted more than 200,000 patients in his career.
The team led by the famous specialist performed India’s first two kidney pancreas transplants. His expertise has earned him life membership in a number of organizations, including the Indian Society of Gastroenterology, INASL, and others. He has a large number of publications to his credit. Vascular access surgery, dialysis, peritoneal dialysis surgery, percutaneous renal biopsies, and renal transplant surgery are among his special interests.
The team led by the famous specialist performed India’s first two kidney pancreas transplants.
Dr. Guleria has many Firsts to his credit. He was the first to do cadaveric renal transplantation in New Delhi. He is the one to have introduced “DONOR CARD” in Delhi. He owns the credit to establish a Pediatric Transplant Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and also set up the All India Institute of Medical Sciences’ Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy programme. He has received many honors and awards which include Padma Shri by the President of India for his contribution to the field of medicine. Dr. Guleria has more than 250 publications to his credit in both national and international journals.
Dr Priyadarshni Ranjan
Kidney Transplant Surgeon And Urologist
MBBS, MS, MCh
Mohali
Dr Priyadarshni Ranjan is the most reputed and leading kidney transplant surgeon in the country currently heading the Advanced Kidney Care Unit at Fortis Hospital, Mohali.
He is an expert in performing kidney transplant surgery at more than 95% success rates which are at par with the leading kidney transplant centers across the world. He has performed the first successful Laparoscopic and Retroperitoneoscopic Kidney Cancer Surgeries at the Fortis Hospital Mohali.He has to his name around 45 international publications and two books in Urology and Kidney Transplantation.
He is amongst the handful urologists in India who are extensively skilled in performing complex tumor and non-tumor Kidney surgeries by Retroperitoneoscopy and Laparoscopy. He also has his name recorded in the Limca Book of Records for his extraordinary results in the treatment of kidney cancer. With this vast experience, he has around 3000 surgeries under his belt which includes Laparoscopic donor nephrectomies, kidney transplantation, Kidney cancer, Urinary bladder cancer, Prostate Operations for BPH etc.
He is amongst the handful urologists in India who are extensively skilled in performing complex tumor and non-tumor Kidney surgeries by Retroperitoneoscopy and Laparoscopy. He also has his name recorded in the Limca Book of Records for his extraordinary results in the treatment of kidney cancer.
Dr Amol K Patil
Urology & Kidney Transplant Surgeon
M.B.B.S., M.S. (General Surgery), D.N.B. (Urology), MNAMS
Mumbai
Dr. Amol Kumar Patil is a Consultant Urologist & Transplant Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai. He comes with more than 14 years of experience in the ?eld of Urology and Renal Transplant.
His area of special interest lies in Kidney Transplant Surgery, Uro-Oncology, Endourology, Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery. He has been a part of renal transplant team for more than 500 renal transplants and more than 25 cadaver organ harvesting, out of which he has done 120 Renal transplant surgeries as Primary surgeon.
Dr. Amol Kumar Patil has also performed major surgeries in Reconstructive Urological procedures, (like Augmentations, Urethroplasties, Hypospadias correction) Uro-Oncology procedures (like Radical Nephrectomy, Cystectomy Penectomy, Adrenalectomy), Endourological procedures, (like TURP,TURBT, URS,PCNL,RIRS,VIU) with a special interest in Holmium Laser Enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) male infertility and female Urology.
Dr Bharat V Shah
Urology & Kidney Transplant Surgeon
MBBS, MD, DNB (Nephrology), Clinical Fellowship in Nephrology, University of Cincinnati Medical Centre, Clinical Research Fellowship in Nephrology New England Medical Centre, Boston, USA.
Mumbai
With over four decades of professional experience, Dr. Bharat V. Shah is considered one of the senior most nephrologists in India. He has held prominent roles, including heading the Renal and Nephrology departments at various esteemed hospitals in Mumbai.
Dr. Shah is a prolific author, having penned numerous books on Kidney failure and Kidney transplant, along with contributing to numerous journals and publications in the field. He is actively engaged in several ongoing research projects concerning renal disease and transplant procedures.
Dr. Shah presently serves as a Consultant Nephrologist within the Nephrology department at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre.
Following the completion of his MBBS, MD, and DNB (Nephrology), Dr. Bharat Shah pursued further specialization with a Clinical Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and a Clinical Research Fellowship in Nephrology at the New England Medical Centre, Boston, USA.
Dr. S V Kotwal
Urology & Kidney Transplant Surgeon
MBBS, MS, MCH (Urology)
Gurgaon
Dr. S V Kotwal is a highly reputed and recognized Uro and kidney transplant surgeon in the country holding a very extensive and rich experience of more than three decades in all fields of urology.
He has performed one of the largest personal series of percutaneous nephrolithotomy procedures in North India which is around 4000 and approximately 300 kidney transplantations.
He has gained international acclaim for his dedicated work in Endourology and vascular reconstructions. He has been involved in conducting operative workshops in the country and also participates actively in various national and international annual conferences.
Trans-urethral surgery, PCNL, URS, Pediatric urology, Urological oncology, female urology, renal transplantation, micro surgery for infertility are the areas of his expertise.