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Dr Saurabh Misra
MS, FICS, FIAGES
Sr. Consultant, Gastrointestinal, Robotic and Bariatric surgeon.
Dr Saurabh completed his MBBS from JLN Medical College, Ajmer before undergoing Masters in surgery from Rabindra Nath Tagore Medical College at Udaipur, Rajasthan. He later underwent Advanced Laparoscopic training from the prestigious Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi.
He did his Bariatric surgery training at Mayo Clinic at Rochester in Minnesota, US, under Dr Jeff Thompson (Chairman, Surgery ) in 2005.
He was the Consultant and Head of the General and Minimal Access Surgery Department at Apollo Hospitals, Goa. He was the first surgeon to perform Obesity and other advanced laparoscopic surgeries in the state. For the last 22 years, he is practising as a Minimal Access surgeon. He has over 9000 independent Gastrointestinal and Bariatric laparoscopic and Robotic surgeries to his credit, including routine and advanced Robotic and laser surgeries.
Since 2016, he has been pioneering a technique known as (laparoscopic) e TEP Rives Stoppa repair (Posterior component separation) for Ventral hernia. He has the highest number of such surgeries to his credit in South India. He completed his Robotic training with Intuitive surgical (US) in November 2019 and now doing routine robotic abdominal surgeries at Apollo hospitals Bangalore.
He developed a new form of Laparoscopic surgery known as 'SMILS' (Single site Multi Incision Laparoscopic Surgery). The paper in this regard was published in the Journal of Minimal Access surgery in 2013. Further research in this field is underway.
He has many papers in National and international Journals and conferences.
His areas of interests are :
- Bariatric surgery.
- Advanced Hernia care through Component separation
- Gastrointestinal surgeries
- Anti-Reflux surgeries