Dr. Prasad Behera — Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist in Hyderabad

Dr. Prasad Behera is a Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 27 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology alongside general surgery and gastroenterology and hepatobiliary work.

His procedure list spans transplantation and resection. He performs liver transplant and pancreas transplant, and on the resection side the Whipple procedure, pancreatectomy, gastrectomy and anti-reflux surgery by Nissen fundoplication.

He took both his undergraduate and his postgraduate surgical training at MKCG Medical College in Berhampur, Odisha. His post-qualification letters come from two bodies: he is a Fellow of the Association of Indian Surgeons, awarded by the Association of Surgeons of India in Chennai, and a Fellow of the Academy of General Education at MAHE Manipal in Karnataka.

Society membership is the most detailed part of his record and much of it is for life. He is a life member of the Association of Minimal Access Surgery, the Indian Hernia Society, the Society for Endoscopy and Laparoscopic Surgeons of India, the Association of Surgeons of India, the Association of Medical Science and the Hyderabad Surgical Society, and a member of the Indian Medical Association. The spread across hernia, endoscopy and minimal access bodies tracks the laparoscopic side of his practice.

His hospital history is long and largely set in Hyderabad. Besides KIMS Hospital in Secunderabad he has been associated with Poulomi Hospitals at ECIL X Roads in Rukminipuri and Kamineni Hospitals, both in Hyderabad, and with Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital and Research Centre. Earlier attachments took him to Tata Memorial Hospital in Bombay and the Cancer Hospital and Research Institute in Gwalior.