Dr. Sivaram Ganesamoni — Senior Surgical Oncologist and Head of Department in Chennai

Dr. Sivaram Ganesamoni is Senior Surgical Oncologist and Head of Department at MGM Healthcare, Chennai, with more than 24 years of experience.

Breast and gastrointestinal cancer surgery account for most of his work. On the breast he performs mastectomy, breast conserving surgery and oncoplastic breast surgery, so the choice between removing the breast and reshaping it around the tumour is one he can offer either way. In the abdomen he operates on gastric, colorectal and rectal cancer, and on ovarian and endometrial cancer. For disease that has spread across the peritoneal surfaces he performs cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC.

His training took him through five qualifying institutions in eleven years. He qualified MBBS from Madurai Medical College in Tamil Nadu in 2002 and completed his MS in General Surgery at JIPMER, Puducherry, in 2008. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh admitted him to MRCS in 2009, and the National Board of Examinations in New Delhi awarded him a DNB in General Surgery in 2010. His super-specialty training followed at the Cancer Institute (WIA) in Chennai, where he took his MCh in Surgical Oncology in 2013.

He is a member of five professional bodies: the Indian Medical Association, the Association of Surgeons of India, the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology, the Indian Society of Oncology and the Society of Surgical Oncology.