Vikram Bhatia

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, 2002

MBBS Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), Delhi
Medical College from where you did MD / MS Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), Delhi
] Medical College from where you did DM / MCh All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi
Year when you obtained your last degree December 2002
Any overseas training / fellowships
  • International fellowship for the year 2007, awarded by the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE). Training in endoscopic ultrasound under Dr Peter Vilmann, at the Gentofte Hospital, Denmark, for 2 months from January to March, 2007.
  • Fellowship awarded by the Japan Cancer Society. Training in endoscopic ultrasound under Dr Kenji Yamao, at the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan for 4 months from September to December, 2005.
  • Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) overseas fellowship award for the year 2004.Training in endoscopic ultrasound and advanced endoscopic procedures at the Osaka University Hospital for 3 months from September to November, 2004.
Any awards
  • Alkem Om Prakash Memorial Award by the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG) for the year 2010.
  • First prize at the oral plenary session of the 17th annual INASL conference, New Delhi, 2009.
  • Young investigator award at the Asian Pacific Digestive Week (APDW), at Cebu city, Philippines, 2006.
  • First prize at the oral plenary session of 14th annual conference of the Indian Association for Study of the Liver (INASL), Nagpur, 2006.
  • Dr Rakesh Tandon ‘best outgoing DM student award’ for the year 2003.
  • Presidential poster award at Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG) annual conference, Chennai, 2003.
Places where you worked before joining ILBS AIIMS, Delhi
Year when you joined ILBS 2008
Area of expertise / sub speciality / research interest Pancreatobiliary disorders, ERCP, and Endoscopic Ultrasound
Total number of publications 36 Papers published in indexed journals, 1 Accepted, 2 Papers in non-indexed journals, 9 Chapters in books,
Details of 5 best publications:
  • Acharya SK, Bhatia V, Sreenivas V, Khanal S, Panda SK. Efficacy of L-Ornithine L-Aspartate in acute liver failure: A double-blind, randomized, placebo - controlled study. Gastroenterology. 2009;136:2159-68.
  • Bhatia V, Singhal A, Panda SK, Acharya SK. A 20-year single-center experience with acute liver failure during pregnancy: is the prognosis really worse? Hepatology. 2008;48:1577-85.
  • Nakahara O, Yamao K, Bhatia V, Sawaki A, Mizuno N, Takagi T, Shimizu Y, Koshikawa T, Yatabe Y, Baba H. Usefulness of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for undiagnosed intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy. J Gastroenterol.2009;44:562-7.
  • Bhatia V, Singh R, Acharya SK. Predictive value of arterial ammonia for complications and outcome in acute liver failure. Gut.2006;55:98-104.
  • Bhatia V, Garg PK, Tandon RK, Madan K. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-induced acute pancreatitis often has a benign outcome. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2006;40:726-31.
Any research grants None