Dr. Prithiviraj Nabi — Associate Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Prithiviraj Nabi is an Associate Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 18 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine.

His list covers transplantation and major resection. He performs liver transplant and pancreas transplant, liver tumor surgery, pancreatectomy, the Whipple procedure, gastrectomy and cholecystectomy.

His training is dated and moves through four institutions. He read MBBS at Madurai Medical College in 2008, took his MS in general surgery at PGIMER in Chandigarh in 2012, the MCh in surgical gastroenterology at GB Pant Hospital in New Delhi in 2017 and the DNB in the same subject through the NBE board in 2018. He also holds the FMAS in minimal access surgery, the FALS in advanced laparoscopic oncology and fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.

His record carries three academic firsts across those years. He took the first order medal in his MS general surgery examination in May 2012, was best outgoing student in the MCh GI surgery exit examination in 2017, and won the best orator award in a national-level debate in GI surgery as a Torrentz Young Scholar in 2016.

Later recognition came from outside the examination hall. He won best e-poster at the IASG virtual annual conference at AIIMS Bhubaneshwar in 2021 for work on radiation induced liver injury mimicking metastasis, and a Vocational Excellence Award from Rotary West in 2020 for work in gastroenterology and organ donation awareness.

His posts include Paul Brousse Hospital in Paris, KIMS in Trivandrum and Vadamalayan Hospital in Madurai.