Dr. R. A. Sastry — Senior Consultant in Hyderabad

Dr. R. A. Sastry is a Senior Consultant at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 52 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with hepatobiliary and general surgery.

His operating list is concentrated on the upper abdomen. He performs liver tumor surgery, the Whipple procedure, pancreatectomy, gastrectomy, anti-reflux surgery by Nissen fundoplication and pancreas transplant.

His qualifications are dated across five decades. He read MBBS at JIPMER in Pondicherry in 1974 and took his M.S. in surgery at PGIMER in Chandigarh in 1978. Advanced laparoscopy training followed at Singapore General Hospital in July 1994, and liver transplantation training at the Pittsburgh Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, in the USA from March to June 1996. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow conferred his FRCS in 2006.

Much of his record is examining and office rather than awards. He is an examiner in M.Ch GI surgery at all centres offering the course and a National Board examiner for the DNB in surgical gastroenterology, and has served as President of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology and President of the International Hepato Pancreato-Biliary Association in India. He holds the title of Professor of Gastroenterology.

His speaking and publishing record is set out in numbers: nine orations and 140 invited talks delivered, 42 publications in indexed journals and 17 chapters in textbooks. Besides KIMS Hospital in Secunderabad he has been associated with Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad.