Dr. Anurag Shrimal — Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Anurag Shrimal is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, with more than 20 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with surgical oncology.

His list is built around abdominal transplantation. He performs liver transplant, pediatric liver transplant, pancreas transplant and multivisceral transplant, with liver tumor surgery, pancreatectomy and the Whipple procedure on the resection side.

His qualifications run from MBBS through an MS and DNB in general surgery to MNAMS. His transplant training was taken in the United States: he holds the FASTS in multi-organ abdominal transplant surgery from Duke University and completed the Del Stickel abdominal transplant surgery fellowship at DUMC. He has also had surgical oncology training, which matches the second specialty on his profile.

Several firsts are recorded against his name. His profile credits him with the world's first successful composite vascularised liver and posterior rectus sheath transplant in an adult, and with the first living donor hepatectomy performed after sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity. It also records the youngest neonatal cadaveric donor liver transplant, from a five-day-old donor, and the largest series of liver transplants performed for hepatoblastoma in India, which is the paediatric strand of his practice.

Volume is recorded alongside those cases: more than 1,200 liver transplant surgeries with consistently high success rates. Besides Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai he has been associated with Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital and Tata Memorial Hospital, both in the same city.