Dr. Kunal Vinayak

Our 8-year-old daughter Maya needed an emergency kidney transplant after a rare complication from HUS. Dr. Vinayak worked through the night coordinating with international organ sharing networks and performed the transplant during a thunderstorm that knocked out power - the hospital generators kept everything running. He checked on her every hour for the first 24 hours, even reading her favorite story when she woke up frightened.

I'm a 45-year-old marathon runner who developed renal artery stenosis after what seemed like a minor injury. Dr. Vinayak created a novel vascular reconstruction technique that used a segment of my saphenous vein instead of synthetic material. Not only did I recover fully, but I've since completed two ultramarathons with better kidney function than before my injury.

My husband, a 61-year-old chef, needed a transplant but had developed antibodies from previous blood transfusions that made finding a match nearly impossible. Dr. Vinayak pioneered a desensitization protocol using immunoadsorption therapy over six weeks before transplantation. The procedure was so successful that my husband returned to creating new recipes within months, calling Dr. Vinayak his 'secret ingredient.'

As a 19-year-old college student studying abroad, I developed acute kidney failure from leptospirosis. Dr. Vinayak coordinated my medical evacuation and performed an emergency transplant using an innovative perfusion system that preserved the donor kidney for 24 hours until I could reach India. He even arranged for my professors to send coursework to my hospital room.

As a 72-year-old retired teacher with polycystic kidney disease, I'd exhausted all options before meeting Dr. Kunal Vinayak. He performed a robotic partial nephrectomy that preserved 80% of my kidney function. What amazed me was how he customized my anesthesia protocol due to my rare allergy to succinylcholine - something no other surgeon had considered. I was tending my rose garden within three weeks.