Dr. Rajanikanth Patcha — Clinical Lead and Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Rajanikanth Patcha is Clinical Lead and Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 22 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with gastroenterology and hepatobiliary work.

Transplantation heads his list. He performs liver transplant and pediatric liver transplant, and alongside them liver tumor surgery, pancreatectomy, the Whipple procedure and gastrectomy.

His qualifications are the longest part of his record and most of them were taken abroad. After MBBS he took his MS in general surgery at JIPMER in Pondicherry, then the MRCS of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh and Ireland, and the FRCS. He holds a Diploma in Laparoscopy from the University of Louis Pasteur in France, taken in 2007. In 2014 he added two European Board of Surgery fellowships, one in liver transplantation and one in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery.

Those two 2014 fellowships are also the single distinction recorded against his name: his profile notes that he was the first South Indian to achieve Fellow of the European Board of Surgery in both liver transplantation and hepato-biliary surgery. The pairing matches his operating list, where transplant work and major liver and pancreatic resection sit side by side rather than one being an adjunct to the other.

He practises at Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai.