DR KAMRAN ALI

Dr Kamran Ali is a Lung Transplant and Thoracic Surgeon who has trained extensively at Centres of Excellence across the World. He is passionate about surgical treatment of End Stage Lung Diseases, Advanced Lung Failure, Infectious/Inflammatory Lung Diseases and Lung Cancer. He graduated in Medicine from JNMCH, Aligarh, following which he finished his residency in Surgery from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He then trained extensively in Thoracic Surgery in India, South Korea and Japan. His training in India covered the entire spectrum of General Thoracic Surgery. At Seoul National University, South Korea he focused on acquiring the skills of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS and Robotics), while his time at National Cancer Centre and Tokyo University in Japan was spent mostly in learning complex lung resections for thoracic malignancies. After the fellowships, he worked as a Consultant in Thoracic Surgery with the Fortis Group of Hospitals, Delhi NCR and later at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. In 2020 he was selected for a Fellowship in Lung Transplant at The Medical University of Vienna, AKH, Austria, which is one of the highest volume Lung Transplant centres in the world. There he was actively involved in all aspects of lung transplantation including patient selection, surgical management (donor & recipient), as well as post operative care. “He was also part of the surgical team which did Europe’s 1st and World’s 2nd Lung Transplant for COVID-19 ARDS.” Before joining Marengo QRG he was working as a Senior Consultant at Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad and successfully performed many complex Double and Single Lung Transplants. He has to his credit many scientific publications in international and national journals. He also serves as Associate Editor of Asia Thoracoscopic surgery Education Program (ATEP) Bulletin and Guest editor for Journal Of Visualized Surgery (JOVS), apart from being a reviewer for many international and national journals.