Dr. P Anbalagan — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. P Anbalagan is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare, Chennai, with more than 21 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology, general surgery and surgical oncology for GI cancers.

His list is concentrated on the upper abdomen. He performs the Whipple procedure and pancreatectomy, gastrectomy, liver tumor surgery and anti-reflux surgery by Nissen fundoplication, a range that covers both the cancer and the functional sides of his specialty.

All three of his degrees were taken at government teaching institutions in the south. He read MBBS at Government Stanley Medical College in Chennai and took his MS in general surgery at JIPMER in Pondicherry, then returned to Stanley for the MCh in surgical gastroenterology at its Institute of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation.

He finished that superspecialty course at the top. He was named best outgoing student in surgical gastroenterology and received the Dr. Rangabashyam Gold Medal for surgical gastroenterology from the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University in 2012.

His published work runs to 12 original articles and 8 case reports in peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented at multiple national and regional conferences. The split between original articles and case reports suggests a record built on series drawn from his own practice as well as on individual cases.

Besides MGM Healthcare he practises at SIMS Hospital in Vadapalani, Chennai. Both of those are in the city where he trained, and his surgical gastroenterology institute at Stanley also carries liver transplantation in its name.