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Department of NephrologySanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences |
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The Department of Nephrology & Renal Transplantation was started in 1987. It is not only one of the busiest departments of this Institute, but also amongst the largest Nephrology centers of the country. It is an established regional referral center for patient care, teaching, training & research, with an MCI recognized DM (Nephrology) training program. The department has served as the editorial office of the Indian Journal of Transplantation, Indian Journal of Nephrology, Renal Nutrition and Metabolism and housed secretariat of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation and Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India in the past. At present, it houses the Secretariat of Indian Society of Nephrology. The Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, SGPGI, has been instrumental in establishing the specialty of Nephrology for the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, other North-eastern states and Nepal.
The department provides care in General Nephrology, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Critical Care, Intervention Nephrology and Renal Transplantation. At present, the Department has 8 faculty members with 20 senior residents. The Department admits 6 DM students and two post doctoral fellows in renal transplant and intervention nephrology each year. The WEEK magazine in its cover story and survey rated the nephrology services of the institute amongst the top three best multi-specialty hospitals in India consecutively for the 3 years.
Dedicated faculty members endeavor to provide quality education, patient care and research and strive to meet the challenges and needs of the society. Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow (INDIA) is a University established under State Act in 1983, and is rated amongst the top medical institutions in the country, delivering state-of-art tertiary medical care, super-specialty teaching, training and research. The Institute is located on a sprawling 550 acres residential campus at Raebareli Road, 15 km away from the main city. The Institute is one of the 12 Institutions of India undertaking quality medical research, that figured on a global list of Scimago - a research group dedicated to information analysis, representation and retrieval by means of visualization techniques. The institute offers its own degrees, which are duly recognized by the Medical Council of India. With 30 academic departments and 182 faculty members, our Institute provides DM, MCh, MD, PhD degrees, Post-doctoral Certificate Courses (PDCC) in most disciplines and Senior Residency in various specialties. The peers in the field have recognized the courses offered by the Institute and the candidates obtaining degrees from SGPGIMS have been highly placed both within the country and abroad.