Dr. Air Commodore Bhaskar Nandi — Director & Head of Gastroenterology in Delhi NCR

Dr. Air Commodore Bhaskar Nandi is Director and Head of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy at Sarvodaya Hospital in Faridabad, in the Delhi NCR, with more than 37 years of experience. His profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with transplant hepatology.

His list covers the liver and the gut. He performs ERCP and manages chronic hepatitis B and C, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, liver cirrhosis, chronic liver disease and autoimmune liver diseases, alongside inflammatory bowel disease with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, chronic pancreatitis, recurrent GI bleeding and severe gastroesophageal reflux disease.

He holds an MBBS, an MD in medicine and a DM in gastroenterology.

Most of his career was in the armed forces, and his record names the posts. He was Professor and Head of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Army Hospital (Research and Referral) in New Delhi, and Commandant of the Air Force Central Medical Establishment, also in New Delhi. He was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India for meritorious service in the Armed Forces as a doctor and gastroenterologist.

After the service he was Head of the Department of Clinical and Transplant Hepatology at Amrita Hospital in Faridabad, before his present post at Sarvodaya Hospital in Sector 8.

His academic record follows the same split. He has been principal investigator or principal worker on 8 Armed Forces Medical Research Committee research projects, has numerous publications in journals and chapters in books, and has contributed to national consensus and guideline work on liver diseases through expert task forces and professional bodies.