Dr. Thiagarajan Srinivasan — Senior Consultant & Director in Chennai

Dr. Thiagarajan Srinivasan is Senior Consultant and Director of the Institute of Liver Diseases, Transplant and HPB Surgery at MGM Healthcare, Chennai, with more than 20 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 training moved north and then back. He read MBBS at Thanjavur Medical College in Tamil Nadu in 2001 and took his MS in general surgery at PGIMER in Chandigarh in 2006. His DNB in surgical gastroenterology and liver transplantation was taken at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, also in 2006, and he completed a senior liver transplant fellowship at Medanta – The Medicity in 2013.

Four prizes trace the subjects he has worked on. He took a best paper award from the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai in 2008 for work on C reactive protein and thrombocytosis in esophageal carcinoma. In 2010 at Hyderabad he received a best special mention for a poster on Clavien's grading in gastrointestinal surgery and a best poster award for hepatobiliary tuberculosis as a diagnostic dilemma. The following year he won the Young Investigator Award in the plenary session of the International Liver Transplant Society World Congress in Valencia, Spain, for work on infective complications in living donor liver transplantation.

His affiliations are MGM Healthcare and its Institute of Liver Diseases, Transplant and HPB Surgery, with earlier attachments at Medanta – The Medicity and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.