Dr Manas Aggarwal has more than 10 years of experience in this field and is trained in pancreatic disorders. He has acquired basic medical education from prestigious institutes in Delhi and moved to Lucknow for pursuing super specialist degree from the oldest super-specialist institute, SGPGIMS. Subsequently he spent his time in Medanta Hospital, Lucknow and moved on. After managing the whole spectrum of gastrointestinal patients, he plans to dedicate his experience and skills to patient with disorders of the pancreas, an albeit difficult organ.

This venture has been created to provide ethical, modern, evidence based advise and necessary support to such patients. Although he is a well trained and certified surgeon, he believes in meditation, lifestyle modification and proper diet are key factors in treatment, with medications and surgery reserved for refractory cases only.

Skills

• Workup and planning for an OPD patient
• Ward management with both preoperative and postoperative care of “in hospital” patients
• Casualty management and patient triage with resuscitation
• Emergency surgical procedures with quick decision making
• Laparoscopic and open surgical procedures, including cholecystectomy, gastrectomy, colectomy, rectal resection, whipple operation, hepaticojejunostomy, proctology procedures.

Professional Experience

Vice-Chairperson, Chandan Hospital, Lucknow, July 2023 - Present

• Perform simple and complex GI surgeries on a regular basis.
• Team up and coordinate with other specialities to provide assistance in the operating room namely, oncosurgery, gynecology and urology.
• Work up patients reporting to out patient department and advise diagnostics and surgery.
• Taking care of in-patient admitted either in wards or ICU.
• Following up patients after discharge.

Consultant, Medanta Hospital, Lucknow, October 2019-July 2023

• Played a key role in setting up the GI Surgery department including training of ward and operating room staff.
• Set up OPD, minor OTs and IPD.
• Participated in quality improvement initiatives and accreditations.
• Worked in a team of four GI surgeons.
• Assisted the liver transplant team in donor hepatectomies.
• Participated in a country level study on laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Senior Resident, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, July 2016-October 2019

• Worked day and night to manage patients in wards, ICUs, apart from taking out time to study.
• Learnt surgical procedures from reputed professors and seniors.
• Assisted the whole spectrum of GI surgeries, including whipple, rectal resections, esophagectomies, shunt surgeries for portal hypertension, liver transplant etc.
• Performed close to 150 different GI surgeries in the course duration.
• Presented journals, seminars and cases in the department teaching sessions.
• Presented mortality meet in the institute’s auditorium.
• Managed patients in casualty, including their triage and resuscitation.
• nvolved in teaching juniors and nursing students during ward rounds.

Education

Deegree	University	Year
MBBS	Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi	2005 – 2010
MS	University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi	2012 – 2015
MCh	Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow	2016 – 2019
FIAGES	Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endosurgeons, Kanpur	2020

Paper Presentations

• Paper Presentation at Surgery update, 2014, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi. Role of Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in relieving dyspepsia in patients of cholelithiasis.
• Poster presentation on APFCP, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rectovaginal fistula (RVF)- Etiological factors, management and outcome: An early experience