Professor Sibal has been serving as the Group Medical Director of the Apollo Hospitals Group, India’s largest corporate healthcare provider since 2005.
He has been a paediatrician for more than twenty-five years. He established the division of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology in 1997 at Apollo Hospital, Delhi. He helped set up the first successful pediatric liver transplant program in India at Apollo Delhi in 1998. The Apollo Transplant Program has performed more than 4173 liver transplants out of which 506 have been in children, the highest in India.
Prof. Sibal served as the President of Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO) from 2020 – 2022. The aim of the organization is to bring together 1.4 million physicians of Indian origin in the world on one professional platform from 57 countries.
Prof. Sibal was appointed as an Honorary Clinical Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in May 2015. He served as a member of the Institute Body (IB) of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh from 2009 – 2014. IB is the highest decision-making body of PGIMER headed by the Union Cabinet Minister for Health. He is a member of the Regional Middle East International Advisory Board of Joint Commission International (JCI) since 2011.
Prof Sibal is on the Editorial Board of 3 Journals and has 118 publications. He has edited a Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He has edited a book on quality improvement, “Qualitinomics”. He has served on the Executive Council of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, The Asian Pan Pacific Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the Commonwealth Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and has lectured extensively in India and abroad.
Prof. Sibal is the author of the National Best Seller “Is Your Child Ready to face the World?”
He comments regularly in the print and electronic media on healthcare, pediatrics, leadership and parenting.
