My Details

Home Address
1184 Cord Drive Hummelstown PA 13076

Spouse

Children

Sushma Jain

Sheetal and Vishal

Birth Place
Hathin, Haryana (India)
Date Of Birth
Oct 30, 1948

Current Position
Professor of Surgery
( Hershey PA 17033
Penn State Milton S. Hershey
Center 500, University Drive
United States )

Office

Fax

Cell

Email

(717) 531 5921

(717) 531 5851

215 539 0224

ajain1@hmc.psu.edu

Education and Training

Period
Institute
Degree

July 1990 to September 1992
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA
Clinical Transplant Fellow Department of Surgery

February 1989 to June 1990
June 1990 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA
Clinical Transplant Research Fellow Department of Surgery

Period
Institute
Degree

March 1988 to January 1989
Various Hospitals in England
Locum S.H.O./Registrar General Surgery, Urology, Accident and Emergency

February 1987 to February 1988
Selly Oak Hospital Birmingham
Registrar, Urology

November 1986 to January 1987
Various Hospitals in England
Locum H.O./Registrar, General Surgery, Urology, Accident and Emergency

September 1985 to October 1986
Queen Elizabeth HospitalBirmingham
Transplant Fellow /Clinical Registrar, Liver and Renal Transplantation

July 1985 to August 1985
Various Hospitals in England
Locum S.H.O./Registrar General Surgery, Urology, Accident and Emergency

April 1985 to June 1985
Dudley Road Hospital Birmingham
Locum Senior Registrar Surgery with Vascular Interest

February 1985 to April 1985
Royal Liverpool Hospital Liverpool
Locum Senior Registrar Renal Transplant Surgery

September 1984 to February 1985
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Locum Clinical Honorary Research Registrar Transplant Surgery

February 1984 to August 1984
Clemetine Churchill Hospital AMI, Harrow, Middlesex
Clinical Transplant Assistant Surgeon

June 1983 to January 1984
Christchurch & Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe Bournermouth
Registrar Urology and General Surgery

January 1981 to June 1983
Perth Royal Infirmary Perth, Scotland
Registrar General Surgery and Urology

January 1981 to December 1981
Senior House Officer Accident and Emergency

February 1980 to December 1980
Christchurch & Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe Bournemouth
Senior House Officer Urology, General Surgery

January 1980 to February 1980
Various Hospitals in England
Locum S.H.O., Accident and Emergency

February 1979 to December 1979
Princess Margaret Hospital Okus Road, Swindon, Wiltshire
Senior House Officer Accident, Emergency, Orthopedic

October 1978 to January 1979
Gen. Hospital, Birmingham and Heatherwood Hospital Ascot
Clinical evaluation and Locum SHO Accident, Emergency and Orthopedics

Period
Institute
Degree

December 1977 to September 1978
Nair Hospital (Teaching) Bombay, India
Tutor (Senior Registrar), General Surgery

February 1976 to November 1977
Rajawadi General Hospital Bombay, India
Registrar General Surgery Dr. S. B. Shah

November 1974 to January 1976
Sion Hospital (Teaching) ,Bombay, India
Registrar General Surgery (Trauma) Dr. Gheewala

August 1974 to,October 1974
ENT Hospital ,Bombay, India
Senior House Officer, ENT ,Dr. Hiranandani

February 1974 to,June 1974
ENT Hospital ,Bombay, India
Senior House Officer, Orthopedics ,Dr.Vengsarkar

July 1973 to January 1974
Sion Hospital (Teaching) Bombay, India
Senior House Officer, General Surgery ,Dr. Kulkarni

January 1973 to June 1973
Cooper Hospital Bombay, India
Senior House Officer, Gen. Surgery ,Dr. Waghale

December 1971 to Dec 1972
Topiwala National Medical School Bombay, India
Rotating Internship-Medicine, Surgery, Ob/Gyn., Preventive Medicine

Period
Institute
Degree
Major Subjects

July 1967 to December 1972
Topiwala National Medical School Bombay, India
M.D.
Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Surgery, Gynecology, Medicine, Obstetrics

Period
Institute
Degree
Major Subjects

July 1966 to June 1967
Hazarimal Somani College Bombay, India
Pre-professional
Biology, Chemistry, Physics

July 1965 to June 1966
Ferguson College Poona, India
Pre-degree Science
Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics

March 1961 to March 1965
Lokmanya Tilak Vidhyalaya, Nandurbar, Dhulia, Maharashtra India
Dhulia, Maharashtra India Secondary School
Mathematics (Algebra, Geometry), Chemistry, Physics, Gujarati, Hindi

Academic Appointments And Positions

Period
Institute
Degree

June 2014 to Present
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Center 500, University Drive Hershey PA 17033
Prof. Surgery Division of transplant

September 2008 to June 2014
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Surgery Director of liver transplantation

November 2003 to September 2008
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Surgery Rochester, NY
Professor of Surgery Transplant Division

January 2003 to October 2003
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Surgery Rochester, NY
Associate Professor of Surgery Transplant Division

July 2000 to December 2002
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA
Associate Professor of Surgery Transplant Division

January 1996 to June 2000
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Professor of Surgery Transplant Division

October 1992 to December 1995
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Assistant Professor of Surgery Transplant Division

Adjunct Appointments

Period
Institute
Degree

November 2003 to Present
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Adjunct Appointment Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences

January 2003 to Present
University of Pittsburgh Department of Surgery
Adjunct Appointment Associate Professor of Surgery

July 2000 to June 2003
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Adjunct Appointment Associate Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences

July 1999 to June 2000
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Adjunct Appointment Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Professional Certifications, Licensure, Memberships and Honors

Certifying Board
Year

MBBS, University of Bombay, India
November 1971

MS (General Surgery) University of Bombay, India
November 1976

FRCS RCPS (Glasgow)
November 1980

FRCS (Edinburgh)
March 1981

FMGM (Day 1)
July 1991

FMGM (Day 2)
July 1990

FLEX (Component 1)
December 1990

FLEX (Component 2)
December 1990

FACS
October 2003

Licensing Board/State
Year

Unrestricted Full License to Practice Medicine/ India
1972

Unrestricted Full License to Practice Medicine/United Kingdom
1978

Unrestricted Full License to Practice Medicine/ Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1991

Unrestricted Full License to Practice Medicine/New York, U.S.A.
2003

Organization
Year

Member of British Transplantation Society
1986

Member of International Transplantation Society
1992

Member of American Society of Transplant Surgeons
1993

Member of American Society of Transplant Physicians
1996

Member of American Association for Study of Liver Diseases
1996

Member of the International Liver Transplantation Society
1997

Corresponding Member European Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
1998

Member of the International Pediatric Transplantation Society
2001

Member of the International Islet Transplant Registry
2002

Member of Central Surgical Association
2003

Honorary Life Time Member of International Transplantation Nurses Society
2003

Fellow American College of Surgeons
2003

Editorial Board Liver Transplantation
2003

Chief Medical Advisor American Liver Foundation, Western NY Chapter
2003

European Society for Organ Transplantation
2004

Title
Year

Prize for standing first in the Center of Secondary School Certificate Examination (among approximately 11,000 candidates)
1965

Prize for distinction in Pre-degree Science Examination, Hazarimal Somani College, Bombay India
1967

Two President’s Choice abstracts at American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
1996

Young investigators award ($1000 to my fellow Dr. Molmenti, whom I trained) at Transplantation Society XVII World Congress, Montreal Canada
1998

Best abstract (award $500 to my coordinator Nancy Marino, whom I trained) at Second International Coordinator Society, Maastricht, Netherlands.
1999

Best abstract (award $500 to my coordinator Nancy Marino, whom I trained) at Third International Coordinator Society, Nagoya, Japan.
2001

Travel grant for oral presentation in ESOT Glasgow, 2011 to my fellow Ashish Singhal.
2011

Best abstract award to my coordinator Barbara MacDonald, whom I mentored at the ITNS, 2012 meeting in Seattle.
2012

  • Monitoring of Cyclosporine A in liver transplant patients. Cyclosporine A HPLC Workshop, University of Liverpool, September 1986.

  • Speaker and co-chairman. Symposium on organ transplantation. Second International Conference on Surgery in the Tropics. SN Chatterji (USA), C Kurvila (USA), Motiwala (India) Bombay, India, February 1987.

  • Cadaveric organ transplantation. T. N. Medical College, Bombay, India, February 1987.

  • Liver transplantation in Europe L.T.Medical College, Bombay, India, February 1987.

  • Liver transplantation in Birmingham. Bombay Hospital, February 1987.

  • Liver Transplantation at Jaslok Hospital, February 1987.

  • New immunosuppressive agents. Bombay Hospital, Bombay , India, October 1988.

  • Clinical update and kinetics of FK506 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, April 1990.

  • Liver transplantation today. First International Workshop (Neurological Problems and Liver Transplantation). Bologna, Italy, May 8, 1998.

  • Chair session on immunosupression with Sir Roy Caln at Fifth Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society, Pittsburgh, PA, August 26-28, 1999.

  • Management of HCV in renal transplant patients. 7th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation, New Delhi, India, March 2-6, 2002.

  • Advances in liver transplantation in hepatitis B and C. 7th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation, New Delhi, India, March 2-6, 2002.

  • Alcoholic liver disease and transplantation. 7th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation, New Delhi, India, March 2-6, 2002.

  • Co-chaired Current status of small bowel transplantation. 7th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation, New Delhi, India, March 2-6, 2002.

  • Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Ethics and safety. 7th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation, New Delhi, India, March 2-6, 2002.

  • Immunosuppression in liver Transplantation and role of mycophenolate Mofetil: Liver Transplantation conference, Nagasaki Japan, April 10, 2003.

  • Advisory Board: 2nd Annual Liver Disease Conference, Newport RI, September 18-21, 2003.

Reviewer for Journals

Abstracts

  • Abstract reviewer for First International Congress on FK 506. Pittsburgh , PA , August 1991

  • Abstract reviewer for Fifth Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society, Pittsburgh , PA , August 1999.

Peer Reviewed Journals

  • Transplantation.

  • Gastroenterology

  • Liver Transplantation and Surgery/Liver Transplantation

  • Digestive Diseases and Sciences

  • AIDS International

  • Lancet

  • New England Journal of Medicine

University and Medical School Services

  • Member of committee 1991 to present and review clinical data collection and identify causes of graft loss and death at Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.

  • October 1992 – December 1993: Retrospective collection of adverse events in over 3000 solid-organ transplant recipients under tacrolimus in preparation to FDA approval of investigational drug FK-506.

  • In-service to transplant coordinators and nurses on transplant floor at Presbyterian hospital and Children’s Hospital on new immunosuppressive agents about once a year.

  • Adviser in developing clinical trials to Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.

  • Adviser in developing drug interaction and drug metabolism protocol to School of Pharmacy in transplant-related patients.

  • Committee member for transplant information management system 1989 to 1995.

  • Committee member for electronic data interchange for transplant 1998 onwards.

  • Review transplant protocol for Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute for IRB submission.

  • Review clinical trial for safety of Cyclosporine inhalation in lung transplant patient.

  • Committee member for data safety and monetary of IRB protocols within transplant division.

  • Retrospective collection of medication, organization and supervision in post-liver transplant patients.

Community Activities

  • Helping with donor awareness week once a year.

  • Distributing Donor Cards to ethnic community.

  • Demonstration of transplant program to medical and non-medical visitors from U.S.A. and out of U.S.A.

  • Providing consultation on phone and/or medical reports and/or radiological findings for suitability of transplantation, timing of transplantation and resectability of hepatic cancer, prognostic aspects of the disease from patients referred within U.S.A. and outside U.S.A.

Professional Consulting

  • Dosing and adverse events of new immunosuppressive agents FK 506 in liver transplantation. 1989 –1991 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.

  • Telephonic Consultation for difficult and controversial clinical issues with liver transplantation to other transplant centers, e.g., University of California, San Diego Transplant Division.