• Poster presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Plasma Exchange in Transplant Free Survival in Pediatric ALF with advanced Hepatic Encephalopathy ISPGHAN 2018 (5th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) held in Mumbai on 26th-28th October, 2018.

• New Delhi August 2018 Central venous obstruction in hemodialysis - a case series with vascular interventions: a single centre experience at ILBS Dibyajyoti Kalita

• “Spectrum of glomerular diseases in patient with chronic liver disease in north India : a single centre study.” Dibyajyoti Kalita, Strongyloid Hyperinfection Syndrome (HIS) in IgA nephropathy on steroid: a case report Dibyajyoti Kalita

• IHPBA international congress 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease; Does Abstinence Correlate with Recidivism? (Oral presentation) : Dr. Brahmadatta Pattnaik.

• Annual congress of International Liver Transplant Society-ILTS, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal: Adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells in cirrhotics and healthy individuals- Are they the same?(Poster presentation): Dr Kumaraswamy P.

• Annual congress of International Liver Transplant Society-ILTS, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal: Liver transplantation in acute on chronic liver failure. (Poster presentation): Dr Shashwat Sarin.

• Hilar cholangiocarcinoma-Surgical experience from tertiary care hospital, (poster presentation at RGCON, New Delhi 2018- by Dr Kumaraswamy (Received the best poster award).

• Dr. Shakti Prasad: Received 'Young investigator award and best abstract award' for presenting his work on 'Continuous infusion of terlipressin is more effective and safe than bolus administration in HVPG reduction in patients with acute esophageal variceal bleed- A randomized controlled trial' at AASLD , USA.

• Dr.Anand Kulkarni: APASL transplant quiz winner(first prize) with honorary membership in march APASL 2018 plus cash prize

• Dr Arpit Taunk got best paper award at Interventional Radiology CME organized by IRIA, Delhi Chapter

• Dr Pradheer Gupta, PDCC student presented poster on "Incidence and Predictors of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Non Cirrhosis"

• at AASLD 2019, San Fransisco, USA.

• Dr Nitya Batra attended,MYCOCON2018, IAMMDCand ICCMID 2018, Delhi

• Dr P. Girisha atteneded HISICON 2018, Hyderabad and presented poster on "Elizabeth kingia: waiting to strike”

• Dr Arvind Khodare presented poster on "Incidence and microbiological profile of central line assaociated blood stream infection (CLASI) in era of bundle care”

Conference Presentations

Annual Conference of American Association of Liver Disease ‘The Liver Meeting 2018’ held in San Francisco, USA

• Poster presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Plasma Exchange in Transplant Free Survival in Pediatric ALF with advanced Hepatic Encephalopathy

ISPGHAN 2018 (5th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) held in Mumbai on 26th-28th October, 2018.

• Oral Plenary Presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Predictors of Hepatitis A virus induced Pediatric Acute Liver Failure- An Etiology specific Study’

• Oral Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay titled ‘ Budd-Chiari syndrome in children – outcome following radiological intervention

• Poster Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay titled ‘Changing Spectrum of Pediatric Liver Abscess in Indian Subcontinent

  • Poster Presentation by Dr. Snehavardhan Pandey titles ‘Natural History of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome in Biliary Atresia versus other Chronic Liver disease’

59th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology" (ISGCON 2018) at Kochi, Kerala, India [28thNovember-1st December 2018]

• Oral Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay in the ‘Liver Clinics’ titled ‘A case of Pediatric Acute-on-chronic liver failure.

27th Annual conference of Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver Diseases (APASL) Annual Meeting 2018 – March 14-18, 2018, New Delhi

• Oral paper presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey – Liver involvement in celiac disease in children

Resident’s Awards

• Dr. Shakti Prasad: Received 'Young investigator award and best abstract award' for presenting his work on 'Continuous infusion of terlipressin is more effective and safe than bolus administration in HVPG reduction in patients with acute esophageal variceal bleed- A randomized controlled trial' at AASLD , USA.

• Dr.Anand Kulkarni: APASL transplant quiz winner(first prize) with honorary membership in march APASL 2018 plus cash prize

Resident’s Presentation at International Conferences:

1. IHPBA international congress 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease; Does Abstinence Correlate with Recidivism? (Oral presentation) : Dr. Brahmadatta Pattnaik.

2. Annual congress of International Liver Transplant Society-ILTS, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal: Adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells in cirrhotics and healthy individuals- Are they the same?(Poster presentation): Dr Kumaraswamy P.

3. Annual congress of International Liver Transplant Society-ILTS, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal: Liver transplantation in acute on chronic liver failure. (Poster presentation): Dr Shashwat Sarin.

Resident’s Presentation at National Conferences:

1. Pretransplant monocyte as a biomarker to predict sepsis and acute rejection after liver transplantation (poster presentation at LTSI 2018, AIIMS , New Delhi by Dr Imtiakum Jamir.

2. Hilar cholangiocarcinoma-Surgical experience from tertiary care hospital, (poster presentation at RGCON, New Delhi 2018- by Dr Kumaraswamy (Received the best poster award).

3. Donor outcomes in Living donor liver transplantation, influenced by duo-selection and surgery (Poster presentation MCLD, Chennai 2018) by Dr Kumaraswamy.

4. Expanding donor pool in Living donor liver transplantation-Experience with NASH and Fibrosis, oral presentation INASL 2018, New Delhi and International liver symposium, New Delhi 2018, by Dr Kumaraswamy.

5. Liver structure and function assessment after proximal spleno renal shunt in patients with EHPVO (Poster presentation at IHPBA Pune 2018) by Dr Kumaraswamy.

6. Living donor liver transplant for acute liver failure: donor safety and recipient outcome (Poster presentation at 4th international Liver Symposium, 2018, New Delhi) by Dr Ankur Vagadia.

7. Liver Transplantation in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (Poster presentation at 4th International Liver Symposium, 2018, New Delhi) by Dr Shashwat Sarin.

1. Dr. Ashish Vyas bagged the prestigious DST-Inspire faculty position.

2. DST-Women Scientist was awarded to Ms. Savera

3. Work on nanoparticles has been filed for patent: Dipeptide based Nanostructures for Targeted Delivery of miRNA for HCC treatment. Application No. 01611023040 (2016); Patent authors are AVarshney, J Panda,AK. Singh, SB. Rooge, S. Biswas, SK. Sarin,VS.Chauhan,

4. Ms. Bijoya Sen had two oral presentation with Young Investigator Award at AASLD, 2018

5. Bijoya and Islam received the DST-travel grant to attend the international AASLD meeting held in San Francisco, USA.

Publications/Presentations by Residents

1. North Zone ISN conference, Jaipur February 2018, Poster presentation

2. AVATAR, National conference: New Delhi August 2018 Central venous obstruction in hemodialysis - a case series with vascular interventions: a single centre experience at ILBS by Dr. Dibyajyoti Kalita

3. ISNCON, Bhubaneshwar 2018: “Spectrum of glomerular diseases in patient with chronic liver disease in north India : a single centre study.” By Dr Dibyajyoti Kalita,

4. Ongoing research work:

• “A Study of incidence and risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease following orthotopic Liver transplantation in adult patients with Chronic Liver Disease and development of a predictor model for occurrence of Chronic Kidney Disease in liver transplant recipients” - Dr Dibyajyoti Kalita.

• “Prevalence of infections and quality of life in CKD, Dialysis and Renal Transplant patients – An observational study.”-Dr Anuradha

• “Effects of oral alkali therapy on the progression of chronic kidney disease in patients of diabetic kidney disease – a prospective randomized controlled trial” -Dr Anand Jain

• “Effects of discontinuation of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systeminhibitors on eGFR in advance chronic kidney disease” -Dr Rajesh Kumar

1. Shefali Gupta: "Pre-transplant seroprevalence and post-transplant reactivation of opportunistic viral infections in solid organ transplant recipients: a single tertiary care center experience," awarded as the best poster award at 29th Annual Conference on Indian Society of Organ Transplantation October, 2018.

2. Krithiga Ramachandran: Role of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) DNA PCR in diagnosing unresolved pyrexia of unknown origin with liver involvement" in MICRO - D - CON November 2018 at Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi

3. Nitin Kumbhar: "Hepatitis B core antibody positive liver grafts can be safely given in core antibody positive and negative recipients with thorough virological evaluation and monitoring" presented in INTERVIROCON 2018 ,12th -14th November 2018 at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

4. Krithiga Ramachandran: "Emergence of a new subclade with endemic evolution in Haemaggulutinin(HA) gene among circulating Influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 strains in Delhi, oral presentation at 42nd Annual Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists organized by NIMHANS, Bangalore from 28th November- 2nd December 2018.

1. Ms. Harshita Tripathi : Oral presentation at APASL Liver Meeting, 14-18th March 2018, New Delhi, India. "Aggressive Nutrition Therapy Significantly improves 28 Day Survival in Critically Ill Cirrhotics with high Nutrition risk as Assessed by NUTRIC Score”

2. Dr.Varsha Shasthry: Poster presentation at AASLD Liver Meeting, 2018, 9-13th November 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA. "Visceral Adiposity Fans the Flame of Mortality in Sarcopenic Patients with Liver Cirrhosis” Poster present at ISGCON 2018, 28 Nov-1 Dec 2018, Kochi, Kerala