About Dr. Swaminathan Sambandam

• Dr. Swaminathan Sambandam, a distinguished Organ Transplant Surgeon, has over 24 years of clinical experience in multi-organ transplantation and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgery.
• He led the largest pediatric liver transplant program in South Tamil Nadu and is credited with performing the second youngest pediatric living donor liver transplant in Tamil Nadu for a 6-month-old child.
• He has performed over 750 liver transplants, including both cadaveric and living donor procedures, and more than 1,000 kidney transplants, making his team the first in Tamil Nadu to perform robotic kidney transplantation.
• With over 20 robotic kidney transplants in obese patients and a leading record in ABO-incompatible and swap kidney transplants, he has set new benchmarks in the field.
• In addition to this, Dr. Sambandam has performed hundreds of pancreas and kidney-pancreas transplants for patients with advanced diabetes, as well as small bowel and multivisceral transplants for intestinal failure.
• His surgical expertise extends to laparoscopic donor nephrectomies and complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeries, where he has performed more than 2000 procedures, including robotic HPB surgeries.
• Dr. Sambandam has a proven academic presence, with multiple indexed publications in reputed national and international journals and presentations at leading transplant conferences worldwide.
• His passion lies not only in delivering high-quality surgical care but also in mentoring future surgeons and advancing the standards of transplant surgery in India.
• Dr. Sambandam completed his MBBS from Chengalpattu Medical College, MS in General Surgery from Madras Medical College, and earned MRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK.
• He further honed his skills with a Fellowship in Transplant Surgery from the University of Iowa, USA.
• He is widely recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of transplantation and minimally invasive surgery, having trained extensively in Liver, Kidney, and Pancreas Transplantation and HPB Surgery in the USA, and worked for over a decade across the USA, UK, and Australian healthcare systems.
• Dr. Sambandam is an active member of global and national medical associations, including the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA), and the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT).