Dr. Naveen Polavarapu — Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist in Hyderabad

Dr. Naveen Polavarapu is a Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist, Liver Specialist and Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopist at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile also records surgical gastroenterology for liver transplant.

That three-part title maps onto his list. As an endoscopist he performs ERCP and treats bile duct stones, biliary strictures and pancreatic cysts. As a liver specialist he manages chronic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases and pediatric liver disease, and he works in liver transplant. He also manages chronic pancreatitis.

He read MBBS at NTR University of Health Sciences in Andhra Pradesh and took the rest of his training in the UK. He holds the MRCP and FRCP in gastroenterology through the Liverpool Deanery, the FRCP of Glasgow awarded in 2018, and a CCT in gastroenterology. His liver transplant fellowship was at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and his advanced endoscopy fellowship training in ERCP and endoscopic ultrasound at Aintree University Hospital, so both halves of his present practice rest on separate fellowships.

His student record is an unbroken run of distinctions: the gold medal for best outgoing student at the University of Health Sciences in 2001, gold medals in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, anatomy and physiology, first class in 12 of the 13 MBBS subjects, and second prize in the All India National Paediatric Quiz in 2000.

Later recognition came from the press and from conferences. He was named a Rising Star in gastroenterology by the Times of India in 2018 and Best Hepatologist by the same paper in 2022, and won a best poster award at the BSG conference in 2010. He has also worked at Apollo Hospitals in Jubilee Hills.