Dr. B. Ravi Shankar — Director of Medical Gastroenterology in Hyderabad

Dr. B. Ravi Shankar is Director of Medical Gastroenterology and Chief of Academics in the Department of Gastroenterology at Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 30 years of experience. His profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with interventional gastroenterology.

His list is short and concentrated on the bile duct and the liver. He performs ERCP and treats biliary strictures and bile duct stones, and manages chronic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension and severe GERD.

His qualifications are dated and were taken over a decade. He read MBBS at Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad in 1986, took both his MD in internal medicine and the DNB in internal medicine at Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal in 1991, and his DM in gastroenterology at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow in 1996.

Holding both an MD and a DNB in the same subject from the same year is unusual, and it means he qualified through two separate examination systems before moving into the specialty.

He is a national member of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and of the Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver, and was named Legend of the Year in Gastroenterology and GI Surgery at the Times Health Care Achievers awards in 2017.

Alongside Yashoda Hospitals in Secunderabad he has been at Sunshine Hospitals in Secunderabad and Kamineni Hospitals in Hyderabad. The academic half of his present title sits alongside a clinical practice built on ERCP and interventional work.