Dr. T S Bala Shanmugam — Senior Consultant and Head of Department in Chennai

Dr. T S Bala Shanmugam is Senior Consultant and Head of the Department of Minimally Invasive Bariatric and GI Surgery at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 30 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with bariatric and metabolic surgery and general surgery.

His listed procedures are anti-reflux surgery by Nissen fundoplication, gastrectomy, pancreatectomy and ostomy surgery.

His training moved from Chennai to Mangalore and then abroad. He read MBBS at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in Chennai and took his MS in general surgery at Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore. The Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India awarded him the FMAS as a Fellow of Minimal Access Surgery. His advanced laparoscopic surgery training was taken at IRCAD in Strasburg, France, and his robotic surgery training at World Laparoscopic Hospital in New Delhi, which together account for the minimally invasive half of his departmental title.

Much of his record is editorial and examining rather than clinical. He sits on the editorial board of World Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery and of Gastroenterology International. He examines for the MS in general surgery and for MBBS and BDS at various universities, and is a post-doctoral fellowship examiner in minimal access surgery for Dr. MGR University, the same subject as his own AMASI fellowship.

He practises at Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai.