Professional Activities

Special Awards and Honors

2014	Poster of Distinction at the 2ndWorld Transplant Conference, San Francisco, USA.Kidney Re-Transplantation versus Continued Dialysis in Patients with Primary Graft Failure. Amit Sharma, et al.
2014	Established an ASTS approved Hepato-biliary fellowship as a part of transplant surgery training at VCU
2014	Invited by the Ambassador of India to the United States to celebratethe festival of Baisakhiat his residencein Washington DC
2013	Successfully performed the first ABO incompatiblekidney transplant in Virginia
2013	Certificate ofRecognition by the Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) at the VCU Medical Center for administrative work in assessment of fellows, residents and medical students.
2012	Poster of Distinction at the 12thAmerican Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, USA: "Liver−Kidney 'Double' Donation by Living Donor Good Samaritans: Kindness or Craziness?"Amit Sharma, MD,MPhil, et al.
2011	Editorial published in Nature Reviews Nephrology recognizing original article by Sharma A. et al. titled ‘En bloc kidney transplantation from pediatric donors: comparable outcomes with living donor kidney transplantation.’
2011	On-line article: Heart Disease Mandates Vigilance After Renal Transplant. Medscape. May 11, 2011, by Daniel M. Keller PhD, recognizing Dr. Amit Sharma’s presentation at the 11thAmerican Transplant Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2010	Established the Laparoscopic Peritoneal Dialysis Program at VCU
2009	Travel Grant, Medical College of Virginia Foundation. Supported abstract oral presentation as transplant surgery fellow at the Young Investigators Forum in Breckenridge, Colorado.
2008	Travel Grant, Medical College of Virginia Foundation. Supported abstract poster presentation as transplant surgery fellow at the 8th Annual American Transplant Congress in Toronto, Canada.
2006	Travel Grantfrom the Society for International Surgical Co-Operation, Stockholm. Supported abstract poster presentation at the 1st World Transplant Congress in Boston, Massachusetts.
2006	Travel Grant from the Society for International Surgical Co-Operation, Stockholm. Supported abstract oral presentation at the 25th Workshop of the Study Group on Artificial Insulin Delivery, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation (AIDPIT) in Pisa, Italy.
2005	Travel Grant from the Society for International Surgical Co-Operation, Stockholm. Supported abstract oral presentation at the 24th Workshop of the Study Group on Artificial Insulin Delivery, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation (AIDPIT)in Igls, Austria.
2003	Certificate of Recognition for setting up cost-effective Laparoscopic Surgery Unitin Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur, India.
2002	Travel Grant fromPunjab government to train in ‘Management of Technical Co Operation Projects’ at the International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization (ITC-ILO) in Turin, Italy.
1994	Gold Medal for distinction in Forensic Medicineawarded by the Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.