Our Advisory Board

Dr Sandeep Attawar
Founder Director & Chair
KIMS Institute of Heart, Lung
Transplantation & Assist
Devices
Program Director & Chair of Thoracic Organ Transplantation & Assist Devices at KIMS Hospitals,
Hyderabad, Dr Attawar is among the most renowned lung transplant surgeons in India. With a
pan-India presence he drives Asia’s largest lung transplant program by volume.
He is the director of the Lung Transplant program at many prominent lung transplant centers, Sir H.
N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, DPU Super specialty Hospital, Pune and several other
centers in India.
A visionary and a true believer in technology, under his leadership myTransplant system has
been successfully implemented at the KIMS heart and lung transplantation program for both,
transplant management and post transplant remote care. His work in digital transformation has
been well recognized for setting gold standard in organ transplantation and has been
recognized by several awards and accolades.
In addition, Dr. Attawar is also an active member in international cardiothoracic forums such as the
International society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), Society of Thoracic surgeons (STS )
and the European association of cardio-thoracic surgery ( EACTS ).
He is on the international panel of 24 experts to form the consensus guidelines for Lung
Transplantations at the ISHLT this year. These guidelines are the Lung transplant Bible for over 250
hospitals all across the Globe that pursue the science of Lung transplantation.

Dr A S Soin
Dr. AS Soin leads India’s largest and one of the world’s most successful liver transplant programs at Medanta – The Medicity.
Dr. Soin and his team is renowned for their 95% success rate, performing almost 25-30 successful transplants a month. His vast experience includes over 2500 liver transplants, which is the highest in the country. Over his 21 years, Dr. Soin has also performed more than 12000 other complex liver, gall bladder and bile duct surgeries, & is renowned for his pioneering work in establishing liver transplantation in India.
Dr A S Soin is recognized all over the world over for his pioneering work in establishing liver transplantation in India.
He was awarded the Padma Shri, highest civilian honours of India.

Prof. James Neuberger
Between 2008 and 2016, he was Associate Medical Director for Organ Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant.
He was an editor of Transplantation for 10 years and associate editor for other journals. He has maintained a long interest in liver transplantation and also autoimmune and alcohol related liver disease.
He has published extensively on these aspects and continues his clinical and research interests.

Professor Howard Forman
He is the faculty founder and director of the MD/MBA program as well as the faculty director of the healthcare focus area in the School of Management’s MBA for Executives program.
As a practicing emergency/trauma radiologist, he is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, healthcare compliance, and contracting. His research has been focused on improving imaging services delivery through better access to information.
He has worked in the U.S. Senate, as a health policy fellow, on Medicare legislation.
