Our Advisors

Dr Ashish Sharma is a Professor and Head Institution Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and has contributed more than 50 publications in reputed national and international journals. He started laparoscopic donor nephrectomy at the Institute and has trained budding transplant surgeons from different parts of India in this technique.

His active involvement in promoting deceased donor transplantation at PGIMER and improving protocols for identification and counselling of brainstem dead donors has led to an increase in deceased organ donations from 1-2 per year to 26 in 2015. He also initiated simultaneous kidney pancreas transplantation at PGI Chandigarh in 2014 and nine such transplants have been performed so far. He formed a protocol to successfully perform Donation after Cardiac Death for the first time in India in 2014 which has led to 15 kidney transplants from such donors.

Dr. Kewal Krishan has more than 15 years of experience in Cardiac Surgery. He was trained by internationally renowned surgeons at Mayo Clinic & Mount Sinai, and has been an Advance Clinical Fellow at both. He is one of the few surgeons trained in all aspects of heart transplantation and LVADs & ECMO.

His special interests are Heart Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Devices. He is currently Program head, Heart Transplant & Ventricular Assist Devices and Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Max Heart & Vascular Institute, Saket, New Delhi.

Neelima Chopra is an experienced Sales & Marketing professional who has held leadership positions with some of the most respected hotel companies across many global markets including, Asia Pacific, UK/Europe and the Gulf. Prior roles include Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for Marriott International Asia Pacific, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, Vice President Commercial for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Europe and Corporate Vice President for Choice Hotels in India. She co-founded a hotel and tourism advisory firm and also established The Toy Box, a play and learning initiative for children from underserved communities.

Now based in New Delhi, Neelima focuses on mentoring young professionals, guiding not for profit enterprises and engaging in philanthropic activities. She is one of our most ardent advisors and has taken up the cause of Organ Donation with a lot of passion. We are extremely grateful to Neelima for bringing her tremendous experience to ORGAN and for her invaluable guidance in all our projects.

A graduate of K.G. Medical College, Lucknow, Dr. P.N. Gupta obtained his DNB in Nephrology from Batra Hospital, New Delhi. He has worked at Fortis Vasant Kunj, Medanta the Medicity and has obtained Fellowship in Kidney Transplantation. He has worked with Prof Montgomery at Johns Hopkins, and has also obtained a visiting fellowship in ABO incompatible Kidney Transplantation.

His special interest is in Kidney Transplantation and Dialysis in Acute Renal Failure and Chronic Renal Failure. He is currently Chief of Nephrology & Transplant Physician at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon. He has been putting in sincere efforts to promote awareness around organ donation.

Dr. Ravi Mohanka is the Director, Hepatobiliary Surgery & Liver Transplant at HN Reliance Hospital, Mumbai. His unit is one of the fastest growing programs with success rates of acute liver failure and liver transplant at par with the best in the world. Dr. Mohanka has trained and worked at some of the most reputed hospitals in India and USA, including the prestigious Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of expertise and current practice include living donor and deceased donor (cadaveric) liver transplantation, intestinal transplantation, pancreas transplantation and hepato-biliary surgeries in adults and children. He has undergone advanced training in laparoscopic and robotic liver surgery at leading institutes in France and Italy. He has organized, conducted and chaired many national and international level conferences, delivered faculty lectures, presented and published his research work at scientific meetings and international journals.

Eeda Gujral Chopra serves as the Chief Advisor at ORGAN India. She is also the trustee of Vijaya Gujral Foundation, an organisation that supports ORGAN India.

She is a Delhi-based social worker with a keen interest in cinema and art. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.

Anup Jalota serves as the Chief Patron at ORGAN India. He has been deeply associated with the cause of organ donation, as his wife, Ms Medha Jalota underwent a heart and kidney transplant before passing away in 2014 due to liver failure.

Anup Ji is an Indian singer and musician, best known for his performances in the Hindu devotional music, bhajan and the Urdu form of poetry, ghazal. He was conferred the Padma Shri in 2012 by the Government of India in the field of Art Indian Classical Music-Vocal.

Dr. Suresh Kumar Badhan completed his MBBS and post-graduation in PSM community medicine from Government Medical College, Patiala in Punjab. With an experience of 34 years, he has worked as a Medical Officer in RML hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi. He retired as Chief Medical Officer from Maulana Azad Medical College and later worked at Airport Health Officer at IGI airport in Delhi.

In January 2016, he joined the National Organ & Tissue and Transplant Organization (NOTTO) as Consultant – Coordination and has played an important role in coordinating with all the States, SOTTOs, ROTTOs and Hospitals for the registration and allocation process of human organs. He has also played a crucial role in coordinating with the Apex Technical Committee of NOTTO for formulating policies related to organ donation and transplantation. During his tenure in NOTTO, he worked hard for digitization of the kidney allocation policy. He retired from NOTTO in January 2019 and is currently working as Medical Officer with CGHS.

Dr. Badhan has been helping tremendously in several crucial areas of our work. With his wealth of knowledge and dedication towards the cause, we are proud and honoured to have him on board as Advisor.

Trilly Rachel Mathew is a Postgraduate in Social Work from Rajagiri School of Social Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, and is also a Diploma holder in Transplant Procurement Management from Spain. She has over a decade of experience in managing Human Organ transplants while working for Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, and HCMCT Manipal Hospitals Pvt. Ltd New Delhi.

She is a regular speaker at various national/international conferences on organ transplants at various forums like the Asian Society of transplantation, Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, NOTTO (National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization) & MOHAN Foundation. In the past she has also been associated with the Tobacco Cessation programme of WHO (World Health Organization) at NIMHANS, Bangalore. Currently she is Manager, Organ Transplants at Paras Hospitals Haryana.

Trilly is a regular speaker at all our Training Programs for Hospitals and Medical Students. Her passion towards the cause of organ donation and transplantation is what makes her an invaluable Advisor to us.

Recognized by Google as one of the top 20 women entrepreneurs globally in 2019, Priti Agarwal brings to ORGAN India 15 years of experience in Learning and Development, General Management, HR Management and Strategy Consulting. An MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and an Economics Graduate from St. Stephen’s college, Priti is an entrepreneur for the last decade and runs The Catalyst – one of the top L&D firms in India.

She has extensive prior experience in leadership development, employee engagement and developing high performance teams in organizations such as Hindustan Unilever Limited and Accenture. Over the last few years, Priti has honed her skills as an assessor, trainer, and content creator. She is an expert in communication and leadership and has delivered several programmes across industries and in various countries.

Priti has been working in the Organ Donation space for the past one year with tenacity and dedication as a member of Young Indians (YI) Chapter of CII, India, and Head, Gift Your Organ vertical for YI Noida. We are incredibly privileged to have her as our Advisor to provide guidance and support in several aspects of our work, including awareness drives in corporate and government organizations, and discovering funding opportunities.

Dr. Devansh Vaish is currently Head – Patient Activation Products at Remedo and is raising funds for our huge portfolio of initiatives. He has been working with ORGAN India in various capacities since 2019. A Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, he completed his internship at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, and worked as a resident doctor in the department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Fortis Hospital, Gurgaon. He was Manager - Fundraising and CSR for ORGAN India from 2018-2019 and was instrumental in fundraising for our projects. He set up Government collaborations, led research on various aspects of organ donation, and was involved in social media strategies for ORGAN.

Dr. Vaish continues his work at ORGAN India in an Advisory position and is active in fundraising, planning and collaborations. He brings to ORGAN India his people skills and his out of the box thinking, along with an insider’s View of the Healthcare industry. When he’s not working, he’s either reading voraciously or watching sports.