Dr. Jagadish Polavarapu — Consultant Gastroenterologist in Hyderabad

Dr. Jagadish Polavarapu is a Consultant Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist and Bariatric Endoscopist at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, with more than 10 years of experience. His profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with endoscopic bariatric and metabolic surgery.

His list follows that three-part title. He performs ERCP and manages chronic liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, portal hypertension, chronic pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, recurrent GI bleeding, severe gastroesophageal reflux disease and achalasia, for which Heller myotomy appears on his list.

His training is dated year by year and all of it is recent. He read MBBS at Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad between 2008 and 2014, took his MD in general medicine at the same college between 2016 and 2019, and his DM in medical gastroenterology at Christian Medical College, Vellore between 2020 and 2023. He passed the European Specialty Examination in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2025.

Four further placements in 2025 explain the endoscopic and bariatric part of his title. He held observerships in third space endoscopy with Dr. Venkat N. Muddana at TriHealth Hospital in Cincinnati in June and with Dr. Madhusudhan Sanaka at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in July, trained in EUS with Dr. Shyam Varadarajulu at Orlando Health Care in Florida in July, and trained in endoluminal bariatric surgery at iRCAD India in October.

He is a life member of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India. His publications include a systematic review of gut microbiota as a predictor of therapeutic response in adults with Crohn's disease, and a case series on dorsal genesis of pancreas in the Journal of MGR University in 2023.