Dr. Shailesh Shrikhande — Director & Head of Surgical Oncology in Mumbai

Dr. Shailesh Shrikhande is Director and Head of Surgical Oncology at Gleneagles Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records three overlapping areas of work: surgical oncology, surgical gastroenterology, and gastroenterology and hepatobiliary surgery.

His operating practice is hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal. He performs pancreatic cancer surgery, gallbladder cancer surgery and bile duct cancer surgery, operates on liver cancer and liver tumours, and takes on gastric cancer surgery and small intestine cancer surgery. Pancreatic surgery sits at the centre of that list, with the biliary tract and the liver on one side of it and the stomach and small bowel on the other.

He holds an MS and an MD. Beyond those, what the record shows is a series of honorary fellowships rather than further examined degrees: FRCS from England and FRCS from Edinburgh, FACS from the American College of Surgeons, and FASA from the American Surgical Association. Those four fellowships, conferred rather than sat for, are an unusual concentration.

Before Gleneagles he was at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, where he served as Deputy Director and as Chief of GI and HPB Surgical Services. That post covered gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery across the institution, and it accounts for the shape of the practice he brought with him: pancreatic and biliary surgery at the centre, with liver and upper gastrointestinal work around it.