Dr. Anil Kumar (MBBS, MD (Community Health Administration), Post Graduate Diploma in Disaster Preparedness and Rehabilitation (PGDDPR)) is Director of National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), apex organization established by Government of India, for prescribing policies, guidelines, procedures and establishing efficient and transparent systems for organ donation and transplantation in India. He also heads the National Organ Transplant Program (NOTP) with provisions to support the development of infrastructure, manpower for organ and tissue donation, transplantation, storage of tissues, generating awareness, financial support for poor patients in terms of post-transplant immunosuppressant medications, post donation support etc. Trained at Maulana Azad Medical College New Delhi and NIHFW, University of Delhi. He has been instrumental in the development of the current organ transplant law, rules and program and establishing the country wide network for providing an efficient and transparent system of organ procurement and distribution in India. During his tenure many reforms have been introduced with aim to implement "One Nation One Policy" in organ transplantation, a unified portal by the name of e-प्रत्यारोपण, etc. developed, National Guidelines on Brain Stem Death Certification, Swap donor transplantation, Annual Country Report etc. have been published. He is also spearheading focused awareness campaigns with the latest being "Jug Jug Jiyo Abhiyaan". During his tenure as program officer and as Director NOTTO, the number of transplantation including deceased donor transplantation has increased by more than 4 times. He has been actively involved in various consensus-based papers published on Donation after Circulatory Death in India. He has won numerous awards/honors and published many scientific papers in National and International Journals. He has attended a huge number of conferences as speaker and chairperson.
