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Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal
Cancer Surgeon

The expert with 2 decades of specialization in Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery

Professor Shailesh V. Shrikhande
Media Coverage
November 12, 2023

A 10-step guide to reforming cancer care in India

Without systemic changes the disease could proliferate to epidemic levels over the next decade. With these, the country can become a beacon of low-cost, high-quality care for the Global South.…
Rajesh Bhatkar
Media Coverage
August 27, 2023

As gastrointestinal cancers spiral, doctors blame lifestyle

The number of patients registering for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers at Mumbai's Tata Memorial Hospital has increased by 200% between 2010 and 2022. This rise may be due to lifestyle changes…
Rajesh Bhatkar
Media Coverage
August 20, 2023

Tata Memorial Hospital’s new Parel building to have 500+ beds

Work on constructing a new 17-storey state-ofthe-art building for Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) that will almost double its existing bed strength has recently started in the adjoining Haffkine Compound in…
Rajesh Bhatkar

Professor Shailesh V. Shrikhande is Deputy Director of Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

He is also Chief of Cancer Surgery and GI & HPB Surgical Service. He is one of the few surgeons worldwide to have successfully performed over 1200 Whipple operations. He has conducted over 60 live Operative teaching demonstrations of pancreatic, gastric, colorectal and gall bladder cancer surgeries across India.  He is the Past President of the Indian Chapter of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA). He is also the President of the Asia Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA) and also Secretary General Elect of the IHPBA. In recognition of his work on digestive cancer surgery in India, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014 (FRCS – Ad Eundem). In 2021, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of American Surgical Association (ASA). He is the first Indian cancer surgeon and only the second Indian ever to receive this prestigious honour in the last 144 years of the world oldest surgical association.

Pancreatic and Gastric Cancer Surgery

Education

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) , University of Mumbai, 1992
  • Master of Surgery (MS), University of Mumbai, 1997
  • Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2006
  • Professor of Surgical Oncology, 2010
  • FRCS, Ad Eundem in October 2014

Specialization

Surgical specialization is exclusively in digestive cancer surgery and includes stomach cancer surgery, pancreatic cancer surgery, liver cancer surgery, gall bladder cancer surgery, bile duct cancer surgery, small and large intestine cancer surgery including rectal cancer surgery.

Administrative Experience

  1. Leading the new TMC hospital building project, a state-of-the-art 550-bed futuristic cancer care facility in service of the nation. On 11th May, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India dedicated this project to the nation.
  2. Completed the project of Doctors’ & Nurses’ housing and Dharamshala for poor patients.
  3. Under his social initiative leadership, MHADA awarded 100 flats to poor patients and relatives.
  4. Driving Tata Memorial Centre’s Technical Collaboration with Goa Medical College, JITO Cancer Centre in Thane and JSW Sanjeevani Hospital, Dolvi in Raigad District.
  5. Awarded a full scholarship by Tata Trusts for healthcare administration at Harvard (2020-22).
Professor Shailesh V. Shrikhande
membership

Memberships

  1. Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)
  2. Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI)
  3. Honorary Fellow, Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons of India (ACRSI)
  4. Indian Medical Association (IMA)
  5. European Digestive Surgery (EDS)
  6. International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA)
  7. International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) – founder member of the Indian Chapter
  8. Member of National Core Group on Chronic Pancreatitis
  9. Indian Society of Oncology (ISO)
  10. Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
  11. Global Academy for Tropical Surgery (GATS) – founder member
  12. Indian Pancreas Club – founder member
  13. Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, USA (FICS)
editorial

Editorial Boards

  1. Surgery (Editorial Board)
  2. Langenbecks Archives of surgery (Associate Editor)
  3. HPB, Official Journal of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (Editorial board)
  4. Digestive Surgery, Official Journal of European Digestive Surgery (Editorial board)
  5. World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (Editorial board)
  6. Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Section, BBMC Gastroenterology (Editorial board)
  7. Indian Edition of Pancreas (Editor)
  8. Indian Journal of Coloproctology (Former Editor in China)
review-board

Reviewer Boards

  1. Gastroenterology
  2. JAMA
  3. Annals of Surgery
  4. Annals of Surgical Oncology
  5. Annals of Oncology
  6. Gut
  7. World Journal of Surgery
  8. Langenbecks Archives of Surgery
  9. HPB (Oxford)
  10. British Journal of Surgery (BJS)
  11. British Journal of Cancer (BJC)
  12. Pancreatology
  13. Digestive Surgery
  14. European Journal of Surgical Oncology
  15. Cochrane Collaboration (Upper GI and HPB group)
  16. ANZ Journal of Surgery
  17. Indian Journal of Surgery
  18. Indian Journal of Cancer
  19. Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology
  20. Journal of Pancreas
  21. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  22. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
  23. Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology
  24. International Journal of Surgery
  25. Journal of Surgical Technique and Case Reports
  26. Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology

Present Appointment

  • Deputy Director
    Tata Memorial Hospital
  • Professor & Head
    Division of Cancer Surgery
  • Chief
    GI and HPB Surgical Service
  • Past Convener
    GI Disease Management Group
  • Tata Memorial Centre
    Parel, Mumbai 400 012, INDIA

Visiting Professor

  1. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, Australia
  2. Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Heidelberg, Germany
  3. Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Surgery, New York
  4.  Karolinska Institute, Department of Upper GI Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden
  5. Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade
  6. Rashid Hospital, Dubai
  7. Tokyo Women’s Medical University (TWMU), Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo, Japan
  8.  Karolinska Institute, Department of Upper GI Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden