Dr. Saurabh Pokhariyal

Principal Director – Nephrology & Renal Transplant Medicine

Max Super Speciality Hospital, Dwarka

Dr. Saurabh Pokhariyal is a graduate of Kanpur Medical College and did his Nephrology training from Sanjay Gandhi PGI Lucknow. He was then an Assistant Professor of Nephrology at Nizams Institute in Hyderabad before embarking on a 3-year Fellowship in Nephrology and Renal Transplant from the University of Toronto. Since then, he has set-up and headed nephrology units at major hospitals in the Delhi NCR region.

EDUCATION

• MBBS, GSVM Medical College, Kanpur

• MD (Internal Medicine) GSVM Medical College, Kanpur

• DNB (Nephrology) Sanjay Gandhi PGI

• DM (Nephrology), Sanjay Gandhi PGI, Lucknow

• Fellowship in Adult Nephrology and Renal

Transplantation, University of Toronto

EXPERIENCE

• Director – Nephrology & Renal Transplant Medicine, Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, (2018-2024)

• Director & HOD – Nephrology & Renal Transplant

Medicine, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, (2013-2018)

• Associate Director, Nephrology, Medanta – The Medicity, (2012-2013)

• Senior Consultant, Nephrology, Medanta – The Medicity (2010-2012)

• Consultant in Nephrology, Fortis Hospital,Vasant Kunj (2006-2010)

• Fellow – Adult Nephrology & Renal Transplant Medicine, University of Toronto (2002-2005)

• Assistant Professor (Nephrology) – Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, 2001-2002)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Renal Transplantation including ABO incompatible transplants & transplants in highly sensitised recipients

• Primary glomerular diseases

• Critical care nephrology

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

• An Analysis of the Monitoring in Dialysis (MiD) Study. Kidney360.

• Diagnostic Dilemma: Cardiorenal Syndrome as an Unusual Presentation of IgG4-Related Disease. Indian J. Nephrol. 2022

• Electrolyte Changes in Contemporary Hemodialysis: A Secondary Analysis of the

Monitoring in Dialysis (MiD) Study. Kidney360.

• A retrospective multi-center experience of renal transplants from India during COVID-19 pandemic. Epub 2021

• Intradialytic Hypotension and Cardiac Arrhythmias in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis.: CJASN June 2020

MEMBERSHIPS

• Indian Society of Nephrology

• Indian Society of Organ Transplantation