Career Profile

Dr. Dinesh Khullar, Chairman, Department of Nephrology, and Renal Transplant Medicine at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, is responsible for the development, quality control, clinical governance, physician hiring, credentialing, and academic activities of DNB and clinical fellowship program as well as research activities.

He has vast experience of over 25 years as a renal transplant physician, having been associated with over 5000 successful kidney transplants, including more than 1200 performed at Max Hospital, Saket. This includes among the most challenging transplants, such as ABO-incompatible, transplantations in highly sensitized recipients, and high-risk transplants associated with significant comorbidities.

He has to his credit the setting up of an online hemodiafiltration unit for the first time in north India for advanced and state of the art dialysis. Dr. Khullar has been associated with various research activities and has been a national lead investigator in many clinical trials, including the landmark DAPA-CKD and Transform, besides many others. He has numerous publications to his credit both in national and international journals and has also edited the book “Lupus Nephritis-Pathogenesis & Current management.”