Dr. Aashish R Shah — Senior Consultant in Bengaluru

Dr. Aashish R Shah is a Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, with more than 30 years of experience. His profile records three specialties: surgical gastroenterology, bariatric and metabolic surgery, and general surgery.

His operating list is concentrated on the upper gastrointestinal tract and the organs behind it. He performs anti-reflux surgery by Nissen fundoplication and gastrectomy, and on the pancreatic and hepatic side pancreatectomy, the Whipple procedure and liver tumor surgery. Between them those five operations span the functional oesophageal work, the gastric work and the major resections that a surgical gastroenterology service handles.

His qualifications are recorded in seven parts and divide into degrees and fellowships. The degrees are MBBS, an MS in general surgery and a DNB in surgical gastroenterology, together with MNAMS. The fellowships are FIAGES, as a Fellow of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo-Surgeons, FALS in advanced laparoscopic surgery, and FACS as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Two of those three fellowships are in endoscopic and laparoscopic technique rather than in a disease area, which places minimal access surgery at the centre of his training rather than at its margin, and the third is an international credential.

He practises at Apollo Hospitals on Bannerghatta Road in Bengaluru.