Dr. Saurabh Pokhariyal is an internationally recognized Nephrologist and Renal Transplant Physician with more than 24 years of extensive clinical and academic expertise. He serves as Head & Director of Nephrology & Renal Care at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI), Gurugram (Delhi NCR).
He completed his MBBS from MLB Medical College, Jhansi, followed by MD in General Medicine from the prestigious Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College, Kanpur. Driven by his dedication to renal sciences, Dr. Pokhariyal completed his super-specialization (DM in Nephrology) from the country's premier Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow. He also completed clinical fellowships in adult nephrology and renal transplantation at the University of Toronto, Canada.
With over two decades of experience managing thousands of complex nephrology cases and guiding more than 1,500 successful kidney transplants, Dr. Pokhariyal is recognized as a leader in ABO-incompatible kidney transplants, high-risk sensitized re-transplants, and acute critical care nephrology. He has pioneered innovative protocols in managing acute kidney injury (AKI), severe glomerulonephritis, and multi-organ failure requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).
His clinical practice focuses on living and deceased donor kidney transplantation, desensitization therapy for mismatched transplants, diabetic nephropathy, resistant hypertension, systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus nephritis), maintenance hemodialysis, and home peritoneal dialysis (CAPD/APD).
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