Male, 52 Years from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

* Excellence in New Initiative Award - 18 Sep 2013, Apollo Group of Hospitals

* Chikitsa Rattan Award - 22 May 2007, NewDelhi
* Performed World's first SILS Revision Bariatric Surgery in July 2011
* Performed Asia's first Endoluminal Revision Gastroplasty in January 2012
* Performed India's first Robotic Bariatric Surgery in December 2011
* Performed India's first SILS Gastric By-pass in February 2011
* Performed India's First SILS Cardiomyotomy in April 2010
* Performed India's First SILS Gastro Jejunostomy in April 2010
* Performed India's first SILS Incisional Hernia Repair in October 2009
* Performed India's first SILS Fundoplication in December 2009
* Performed India's first SILS Rectopexy in May 2010
* Performed India's First Laparoscopic Diaphragmatic Reconstruction in May 2006
* Invented "Hiatal Sling" liver traction technique for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS)

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1 FRS, International Accreditation Organization, 2012

2 FALS, Indian Assiciation of Gastrointetinal Endosurgeons, 2011

3 DMAS, Indragandhi Open University, 2011

4 MMAS, University of Dundee, United Kingdom , Scottish Borders, 2003

5 FICS, International College of Surgeons, United States , Illinois, 2003

6 MS (General Surgery), Sri Ramachandra Medical College, 2000

7 MBBS, Annamalai University, Annamalai University, 1996