Dr. Manjunath Bale — Consultant Robotic and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgeon and Lung Transplant Surgeon in Hyderabad

Dr. Manjunath Bale is Consultant Robotic and Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgeon and Lung Transplant Surgeon at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, with more than 17 years of experience. He has also worked at Apollo Health City in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

His surgical practice is confined to the chest. He operates on lung cancer, on chest wall and mediastinal tumours, and on pleural mesothelioma, and his title carries a lung transplant remit alongside the cancer work.

He qualified MBBS from S Nijalingappa Medical College, Bagalkot, between 2004 and 2009, then spent four years at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi for his MS in General Surgery, from 2010 to 2014. His MCh was also taken at AIIMS.

The rest of his training reads as a deliberate accumulation of technique for operating through small incisions. He completed basic laparoscopy training at AIIMS in 2013 and basic VATS training with Ethicon in New Delhi the same year, and holds Advanced Trauma Life Support from JPNATC at AIIMS, certified in 2013. In 2019 he completed an MIS fellowship in minimal access surgery at AIIMS. That same year he travelled twice to China as a clinical observer: to the Uniportal VATS Training Programme at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, and to the Uniportal VATS Complex Lung Resections Masterclass at Yunnan Cancer Hospital in Kunming.