Clinical Focus and Expertise

• Laparoscopy Surgery

• Bariatric surgery

• Obesity Surgery

• Metabolic Surgery

Career

• Clinical Attachments Ex-Hon Associate Professor of Surgery

• Grant Medical College & JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai

• Hon Laparoscopy & Bariatric Surgeon

• Bombay Hospital & Medical Research Center, Mumbai

• Fortis Hospitals, Mulund, Vashi & Mahim, Mumbai

• Cumballa Hill Hospital & Heart Institute, Mumbai

Experience

• Advanced Laparoscopy Surgery since 1993

• Bariatric surgery since 2000 (Performed India's first gastric band & first banded gastric bypass ) -
  procedures performed include gastric bypass, band, balloon, sleeve, Fobi pouch, SGIT, VBG

Education

• Diploma in Gastro-intestinal Surgery from Postgraduate Medical Institute, University of Vienna, Austria

• Training Received in Bariatric surgeries

  • Gastric Band-Lyon, France
  • Gastric Bypass-Laussane, Switzerland
  • Sleeve Gastrectomy-Perth, Australia
  • Banded Bypass-LA, USA

• Training Received in Metabolic Surgery

• Ileal Transposition-Goiania, Brazil

Research and Publications

• Original Research Paper published by Springer in 'International Journal for Diabetes in Developing Countries'. Selected amongst Best 5 paper at IFSO-APC meeting at Rusutsu, Japan in 2011.

• Paper presentations at 2nd World Congress on International Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes at New York in 2011 & Annual Conference of ASMBS at Las Vegas in 2010

• Conducting Clinical Trial in India on Ileal interposition Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (registered with Indian Council for Medical Research)

Memberships

• Current Posts

• Steering Committee Member -Education & Management Task Force, IASO

• Member, International Committee, Surgical Review Corporation, USA

• Reviewer-International Journal of Obesity(IJO)

• Member, Executive Committee-Asia Oceania Chapter of International Federation for Surgery of Obesity
  & Metabolic Disorders

• Past Posts

  • Ex Governing Council Member-International Association for Study of Obesity
  • Past President-All India Association for Advancing Research in Obesity
  • Organizing Chairman-5th Asia Oceania Conference on Obesity(AOCO2009)