Dr. Aabha Nagral

Director, Gastroenterology

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Jaslok Hospital

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30+ years

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Area of expertise

  • Cirrhosis
  • Portal Hypertension
  • Fatty Liver
  • Budd Chiari Syndrome
  • Wilson Disease
  • Hepatitis B & C
  • Viral Hepatitis
  • Gaucher Disease
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Alcohol Liver Disease
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma

 

 

Dr. Aabha Nagral is one of India’s esteemed Hepatologist (Liver specialists). She has been successfully treating Liver disease patients all over the world with a rich experience of more than 30 years. She is also a renowned Gastroenterologist and has been awarded the Master of Gastroenterology Award by the Indian Society of Gastroenterology. She is known to accomplish solving many complex problems in her field of specialization which includes liver diseases and liver transplantation in the Paediatric and Adult domains.

Dr. Aabha has been one of the earliest people in India to focus on Hepatology and Paediatric Hepatology. After training taken from 3 premier institutes, Royal Free Hospital and King’s College Hospital London and Mayo Clinic USA, she was instrumental in setting up the 1st transplant program in Western India at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre in 1998. She has been involved in managing liver transplants since 1998 in India. She was involved in the 1st successful Paediatric Liver Transplant in Western India, Journal of Post Graduate Medicine, Indian Paediatrics, Indian Journal of Paediatrics, Acta Hematologica. She was responsible for getting the drug trientine to India. She is the Director of Deptartment of Gastroenterology at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, and holds important positions at several national and international premier associations.

  • Managing Trustee – Children Liver Foundation
  • Chairperson- SAASL (South Asia Association for the study of Liver) Women’s Forum
  • Liver Committee Chairperson at Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC, Mumbai). Liver Committee member at Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO) and State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO)
  • Editorial Board Member – Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
  • Reviewer for several journals of National Medical Journal of India, Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology (Editorial Board), Journal of Post Graduate Medicine, Indian Pediatrics, Indian Journal of Paediatrics, Acta Hematologica. MUHS Hepatology course guide, Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre
  • The P. N. Berry Scholarship for India for the year 1992. Visited G.B. Pant Hospital, Delhi, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow, Christian Medical College, Vellore as part of the scholarship
  • The Lotus Trust Scholarship 1993 for travel abroad (USA)
  • The Netervala Foundation Scholarship 1993 for travel abroad (USA)
  • The Phirojshah Godrej Trust Scholarship 1993 for travel abroad (USA)
  • The P. N. Berry Scholarship (administered by the High Commission of India, London) for UK for the year 1995-96
  • The K.C. Mahindra Scholarship for higher training abroad (UK) for the year 1995-96
  • Awarded the Young Investigator Travel Bursary for the European Association of the Study of Liver (EASL) conference, London, April 1997
  • Felicitated by Uttaranchal Mahasangh, Mumbai on 09/05/2008 in the programme of Mahila Gaurav Samann
  • Presidential oration :Metabolic liver diseases in adults in Cuttack June 2015 as part of the Orissa chapter of Gastroenterology
  • Invited to the Presidential oration in the annual meeting of Maharashtra chapter of ISG on 26th Dec 2015, Aurangabad on “Do all patients of cirrhosis need a liver transplant”
  • More than 1500 lectures and conference presentations

Other Academic Contributions:

  • Contribution of chapter on “Inherited disorders of the Liver” to 11th & 12th edition of API textbook of Medicine
  • Contribution towards Monothematic books on Pregnancy & Liver disease
  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • INDESYS textbook on Inherited liver disorders
  • Point of Care book by Elsevier – Chapter on Wilson Disease
  • Member of several task forces of the INASL (Indian Association for Study of Liver)

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