• He got trained in Laparoscopic Surgery by Prof.C. Palanivelu as he completed his Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery.
• Subsequently, he completed his Super-specialty in Surgical Gastroenterology at Hyderabad along with training in Liver Transplantation by Prof. Mohammed Rela. He has made several publications during his post-graduation. He has presented various papers at several National and International conferences.
• He also received the best video award of AMASICON, 2014, Dubai.
• He is a member of IMA (Indian Medical Association), ASI (Association of Surgeries of India), AMASI (Association of Minimal Access of India), IAGES (Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo-Surgeons), and IASG (Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology)
• Outside academics, he has represented Tamilnadu in Basketball at the Junior level in 2001-2002 and is also interested in movie direction.
• At present, he is a member of the Hindustan Coimbatore Basket Ball Club.

Departments, Centers, & Programs:

• Department of Minimal Access HPB Surgery & Liver Transplant

No. of Surgeries / Procedures performed

5,000+    8000+         15+ 

Surgeries                                                                       Procedures                                                Years of Experience
 

Education

• M.S General Surgery (Tirunelveli Medical College)
• DNB(Gen. Surgery) National Board
• FMAAS(GEM) TN.Dr.MGR Medical University
• FMAS (AMASI)
• FACS (American College of Surgeons)
• DrNB (GI SURGERY) National Board

Expertise

• Laparoscopy
• Endoscopy
• Liver, Pancreas Surgeries

Languages Known

• Tamil
• English
• Kannada

Book Publications

• Histoplasmosis After Liver Transplantation —a Skate on Thin Ice if Left Undiagnosed
• A Case of Congenital Portal Vein Aneurysm-Few and Far between
• Laparoscopic-assisted transgastric ERCP in patients with gastric bypass: a single centre experience and Unique as an Odd Duck
• Metastatic breast neuroendocrine tumor from the rectum-a needle in hay stack