Dr. Prakash Chauhan

Dr. Prakash Chauhan is an internationally trained transplant surgeon specialising in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation. With advanced fellowship training in India, Canada, and the United States, he brings extensive expertise in living- and deceased-donor transplantation, organ procurement, and complex abdominal transplant surgeries.

• M.B.B.S., B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad – 2004 – 2009
• M.S. (General Surgery Residency), B.J. Medical College, Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad – 2010 – 2013
• Fellowship in Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre (IKDRC), Ahmedabad, India – April 2015 – June 2016
• Transplant Surgery Fellowship – ASTS Accredited, Dalhousie University, QE2 Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Canada – Sept 2020 – Sept 2022
• Transplant Surgery Fellowship – ASTS Accredited, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Liver – Kidney and Pancreas – Dec 2023 – Dec 2025

• 7+ Years of Surgical Experience (USA, Canada, & India)
• Transplant Surgery Instructor/Fellow – Liver, Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA December – 2023 – 2025
• Transplant Surgery Instructor/ Fellow, Dalhousie University/QE2 Hospital, Halifax, Canada – 2020-2022.
• Clinical Associate – Vascular Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada – January 2023 – September 2023
• Consultant Laparoscopic & General Surgeon, Various Multispecialty Hospitals, India – 2016 – 2020
• Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Government Medical College Bhavnagar, India – December 2013 – March 2015
• Senior Resident – General Surgery & Urology, Medanta Hospital and B.J. Medical College – 2013

• The Corona Warrior Award 2021 for exceptional work for Covid patients, given by Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai General Hospital for exceptional frontline work done as a Chief Administrator and Physician in the COVID-19 pandemic for Samras COVID Care, Government centre, catering to more than 5000 patients every month for 1.5 years.
• Co-investigator in a survey on Iodine deficiency disorders in 2009, organised by the government of India, Gujarat State, at the provincial level for the health of school children.
• Project head in a project on Utilisation of antenatal care services carried out at the government civil hospital at Ahmedabad in 2007)

• Liver Transplant Society of India(LTSI)
• Indian Society of Transplant Surgeons
• Indian Medical Association
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons
• American Medical Association

• Liver, Kidney, Pancreas & Multivisceral Transplantation
• Living & Deceased Donor Transplants with Laparoscopic Donor Surgery
• Organ Retrieval & Preservation (Advanced Machine Perfusion)
• Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Cancers – Bile Duct, Gall Bladder & Pancreas
• Acute Liver Failure & Comprehensive Pre–Post Transplant Care

• Kimura J, Chauhan P, Cooper M, Eriksen C, Prasad R. Liver Transplantation Using an Iliac Artery Graft for a Patient With a Celiac Artery Aneurysm: A Case Report. Cureus. 2025;17(6):e86096. Published 2025 Jun 15. doi:10.7759/cureus.86096
• Kimura J, Chauhan P, Eriksen C, Cooper M, Prasad R. Spontaneous Refractory Intercostal Artery Haemorrhage in a Patient With Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis. Cureus. 2025;17(7):e87325. Published 2025 Jul 5. doi:10.7759/cureus.87325
• Kimura, B. Rawashdeh, A. Asassfeh, et al. “ Risk Factors for Failure to Rescue in Adult Liver Transplantation Recipients: A Systematic Review.” Clinical Transplantation 40, no. 3 (2026): e70497. https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.70497
• Successful Use of Kidneys from a Deceased Donor with Active Herpes Zoster Infection. 2021
• Asymptomatic renal arteriovenous fistula requiring endovascular embolisation in a living donor transplanted kidney, more than 15 years after the last protocol biopsy.
• Isolated case of Chilaiditi Syndrome presented in the emergency department as free gas under the right dome of the diaphragm and was managed conservatively successfully-case report published in the National Journal of Medical Research in the Jan-March 2013 issue.
• Gallstone ileus –A rare cause of acute intestinal obstruction-case report published in the National Journal of Medical Research in Jan-March 2013 issue.
• Comparative Study on Surgical Techniques of Incisional Hernia Repair- July 2016 – National journal of medical research.
• Research and analytical study of 50 cases of acute pancreatitis-IJSR Journal July 2014 Issue.