Dr. Harsha Jauhari

Sr. Consultant with 25+ years of experience

Dr. Harsha Jauhari has performed  almost 6000 Renal Transplant & 3500 C.A.P.D. catheter insertions, which are probably the largest series in India. Apart from this, he has over 200 original Publications, Surgical Innovations and Lectures, delivered at National & International Forums, concerned with various facets of Transplantation. Dr. Harsha Jauhari has been the pioneer in starting successful Renal Transplant Surgery Programs at Govt.  Registered Centers in 3 States. He is Advisor, (Organ Transplantation), to Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India since 2014 & is involved in developing the National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP) & National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO).  He is a core member of Advisory and Expert groups to Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, for matters pertaining to Transplantation, dialysis and kidney Disease. In 2004, the Hon'ble Delhi High Court appointed him by name, as a member of a High Powered committee comprising the Health Secretary, Govt. of India, the Director General of Health Services and others to review the provisions of the Transplantation of Human Organ Act (1994) and it’s Rules.  One of his various recommendations was one to set up a National Organ Transplant Programme.  Dr. Harsha Jauhari is Member of  various expert Committees in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. They include National Organ Transplant Programme, setting up of Stand - alone Dialysis centers, training of Dialysis Physicians, Transplant Surgeons and Transplant Coordinators. Other committees include policy making on Medical Tourism & Movement of Health care Personnel at W.H.O & GATT. The Director General Health Services had appointed Dr. Harsha Jauhari as the Organizing Secretary for the public events of the World Organ Donation Day, held in Nov 2010, at India Gate, New Delhi, with the aim of propagating the message of Organ Donation. He had been unanimously elected President of the Association of Surgeon of India – Delhi State Chapter 2016-17. Finally, it can be said that Dr.  Harsha Jauhari has contributed considerably in his specialised field of Transplant Surgery, both as a clinician & as a Teacher. He has also an  expertise in the Ethics & Law in Transplantation. 

Memberships:

• Advisor, Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India
• Member,  Review Committee, Ministry of Health, Constituted by Hon’ble Delhi High Court, to review provisions of Transplantation of Human Organ Act, 1994 and Transplantation of Human Organ Rules, 1995, Govt. of India
• Member, Task Force of the National Policy Dialogue on Transplantation of Human Organ Act, 1994 at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, Govt. of India
• Member, Committee on National Organ Transplant Programme Govt. of India.
• Member, Committee on Training of Dialysis Physician Govt. of India.
• Member, Committee on Transplant Surgeons & Transplant Coordinators Govt. of India.
  Past President, Committee on The Delhi Nephrology Society, 2008, Govt. of India.
• Member, Committee Policy Making, Medical Tourism & Movement of Health Care Personnel at WHO & GATT, Govt. of India.
• Member, National Guidelines on Patient Safety for the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework of India, Govt. of India.
• Chairman, Legal Cell Indian Society of Transplantation.
• Chairman, Medico Legal Cell, Delhi Nephrology Society.
• Chairman, ASI CME Foundation.
  President, Association of Surgeons of India, Delhi State Chapter, 2016-2017.
• Member, IMA Standing Committee for Organ Donation.

Honors And Awards:

• He was awarded Dr. B.C. Roy National Award 2016, by the Hon'ble President of India
  He was awarded the Dr. P.N. Berry Trust Scholarship by the Indian High Commission, U.K. on
  request by the Institute of Urology, London, to train in Transplant Surgery
  He was the only non Govt. member of a 6 member team, headed by the Director General Health Services, for the training to the National Transplant Organization of Spain, at Madrid
• Member, IMA Standing Committee for Organ Donation.
• Dr. Harsha Jauhari has been the pioneer in the starting successful Renal Transplant Surgery Programs at Government Registered Center in the three status viz Delhi, UP, Haryana.

Education:

• M.B.B.S. in 1972 from Armed Forces Medical College, Poona University, India
• M.S. (Gen.Surg.) in 1976 from G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur University, India
  F.R.C.S. in 1983 from Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
• F.I.C.S. in 1991 from International College of Surgeons, U.S.A.
• F.A.I.S. in 1994 from Association of Surgeons of India