Dr. Ajit K. Huilgol is one of India's foremost Kidney Transplant Surgeons and Nephrologists with more than 40 years of pioneering surgical experience. He serves as the Director and Chief Transplant Surgeon at the Karnataka Nephrology and Transplant Institute (KANTI) and as Consultant at Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore.
To date, Dr. Huilgol has personally performed over 2,000 successful renal transplants, maintaining exceptional graft and patient survival rates that align with global benchmarks. He is celebrated as one of the pioneers who established organized renal transplantation and dialysis care in South India.
An exceptional academic scholar, Dr. Huilgol was a rank holder in his pre-university examinations at Bangalore University and graduated from Bangalore Medical College in 1975 as the Best Outgoing Student with top honors in Forensic Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology. He completed his post-graduation as a medalist in General Surgery from the premier Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, in 1979.
His clinical practice focuses on living-donor renal transplants, cadaveric (deceased donor) kidney transplantation, ABO-incompatible kidney transplants, pediatric renal transplantation, complex vascular access creation (AV fistulae and grafts), and the medical management of end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
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