Dr. Haresh Dodeja
M.D.(Med), D.N.B (Nephro), M.N.A.M.S.
Royal College Fellowship,UK
Dr Dodeja has been instrumental in setting up the dialysis unit at Fortis Hospitals Ltd., and is currently working as a Director of Nephrology & Transplant services and as a Consultant Nephrologist.
After completing his MD in Medicine from Grant Medical College, he joined Jaslok Hospital and Research Center to do his training in Nephrology and Transplant medicine. He received his Diplomate in Nephrology from the National Board of Education.
He received Dr P.N.Berry scholarship for the year 2003 and trained at the Leicester General Hospital on a Royal College sponsored Clinical Fellowship with Professor John Feehally, well respected teacher and the president of the Renal Association.
He is well versed with all aspects of general nephrology and dialysis, including CRRT, CAPD, and Renal Transplantation. While at Leicester, he picked up training in all the procedures like dynamic ultrasound guided biopsies, and insertion of Permacaths. He received training in the long term care of the renal transplant patients at Jaslok Hospital, which has done more than 1500 transplants, and at Leicester General Hospital, where he managed the annual review clinic for one year. His personal interest and aim has been in setting up a Renal Obstetric Clinic for the management of renal disease in obstetric practice.
He joined the Fortis Hospital Ltd as the Clinical Co ordintor of the dialysis services, and has overlooked the setting up of the unit from its inception. He also started the renal transplant program at Fortis Hospitals, and did the first live related renal transplant in Dec 2006 and first cadaver transplant in March 2007. Also he has done more than 300 transplants ( including about 30 cadaver transplants) at Fortis hospital mulund, Jupiter hospital thane and Godrej hospital vikhroli.
He has presented numerous papers at the national conferences in India, and was twice recipient of the Best poster presentation in Hemodialysis and Transplant category. He has presented his audit on CAPD patients from Leicester general hospital at the World Congress of Nephrology in Singapore 2005. He has co-authored a chapter on Poisoning and Renal Failure with Prof John Feehally for 3rd edition of Clinical Nephrology, and has authored 4 chapters on chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis for the Oxford Desk Reference on Nephrology.
