Dr. Joy Varghese — Director of Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology in Chennai

Dr. Joy Varghese is Director of Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with the liver transplant side of surgical gastroenterology.

His clinical work is liver medicine rather than operating. He manages chronic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and autoimmune liver diseases, which together cover the range of patients a transplant hepatology service assesses before and after surgery.

His qualifications run from MBBS through MD to a DM in gastroenterology, and he holds a PhD. His transplant training was taken abroad, on a fellowship in liver transplantation at University Hospital in Essen, Germany.

Professional body membership is the broadest part of his record and it is split between Indian and international organisations. In India he belongs to the Association of Physician of India, the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and the Indian National Association for Study of Liver Disease. Internationally he is a member of the International Club of Ascites, the European Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the Liver Transplantation Society of India and the International Liver Transplantation Society. The ascites and hepatology bodies sit directly alongside the cirrhosis work in his procedure list.

He also holds office in two of them. He is a Governing Council Member and Treasurer of the Tamilnadu chapter of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology, and Joint Secretary of the Liver Transplant Society of India. His hospital affiliation is Gleneagles Health City in Chennai.