Achievements & Awards
Pioneering Procedures
- First Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in India – 2004
- First Scarless Sleeve Gastrectomy in India – 2009
- First HYBRID NOTES (Trans Vaginal) Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Asia Pacific region.
- Performed gastric bypass on the heaviest patient to undergo this procedure for the first time in India. The patient weighed 248 kg before the surgery and 214 kg after.
- Pioneering a new procedure after revision of RYGB
- Metabolic Surgery for hypercholesterolemia in lean patients
Limca Book of Record-2015 for
- Operating on the maximum number of patients in a single day (20 patients)
- Operating on the youngest patient (4 Years & 10 Months)
25 Years of
Expertise
Area of Expertise
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Global 30-day outcomes after bariatric surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic (GENEVA): an international cohort study.
Rishi Singhal, Abd A Tahrani , Christian Ludwig , Kamal Mahawar ,Mahendra Narwaria, GENEVA collaborators. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology DOI:10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30375-2;2021
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OSSI (Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India) Guidelines for Patient and Procedure Selection for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
A G Bhasker, A Prasad , P Praveen Raj , M Narwaria , S Shah , R Khullar. Obesity Surgery (2020) DOI: 30:2362–2368.
International Faculty
- 8th World Congress of obesity Surgery (IFSO-2005), at Maastricht (Netherlands)
- 1st World Congress for Interventional therapies for Type-2 diabetes-New York
- International Conference & Workshop of Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgery, Alor Star, Malaysia.
- 15th World Congress of obesity Surgery (IFSO-2010)-Los Angeles IFSO-APC, Hokaido, Japan,2011
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Honorary Clinical Tutor
Royal College of Edinburgh Scottland, UK
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Honorary Visiting Professor
SGPGIMS-Lucknow
Visiting Faculty
Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education (EISE). Mumbai
Center of Excellence for
Minimal Access Surgery Training (CEMAST)- Mumbai
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