Dr. Prabha Sawant — Professor and Head of Department of Gastroenterology in Mumbai

Dr. Prabha Sawant is Professor and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 46 years of experience in gastroenterology.

Her list covers the liver, the gut and the pancreas. She performs ERCP and manages portal hypertension, chronic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, autoimmune liver diseases, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease with ulcerative colitis, chronic pancreatitis, celiac disease, recurrent GI bleeding and severe gastroesophageal reflux disease.

She holds an MBBS and an MD.

Her standing in the specialty is recorded mainly through invited orations and an early research award. She received the Young Investigator Award for portal hypertension from the Indian Society of Gastroenterology in 1994, and has since given the Blumberg Oration for the Kalinga Foundation at Cuttack and the Prof. G.S. Sainani Oration at API Jaipur, both in 2010, the Dr. V. S. Prayag Memorial Oration at B.J. Medical College in 2012, and the Phanidar Oration at Baroda in 2017. Portal hypertension, the subject of that first award, still heads her clinical list.

Her published work is recent and collaborative. She was a co-author on a report of orbital hematoma as a new complication of esophagogastroduodenoscopy in the American Journal of Gastroenterology in 2019, on a study of anemia in patients with ulcerative colitis in remission from Western India in the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology in 2017, and on work on the role of capsule endoscopy in the etiological diagnosis and management of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding in Intest Res in 2016.

Alongside Gleneagles Hospital in Parel she has been at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Sion and at Sushrusha Citizen Co-operative Hospital in Dadar.