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Dr. Wagle has been associated with Lilavati Hospital for 17 years and has extensive experience in managing obstructive jaundice, both benign and malignant, over the past 27 years.
He has performed over 1,500 major hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeries, including:

• Liver resections for malignant and benign diseases
• Hepatico-jejunostomies for bile duct strictures, including those caused by post-cholecystectomy injuries
• Pancreatic debridement for necrosis
• Whipple's Pancreaticoduodenectomies for periampullary and pancreatic cancers, including vascular resections and reconstructions
• Surgeries for chronic pancreatitis, including head coring (Freys) and Beger's procedures for inflammatory pancreatic head masses

Dr. Wagle graduated from T.N. Medical College & B.Y.L. Nair Hospital, Mumbai, and completed his Masters there in 1993.
He worked as a Senior Registrar in GI Surgery at the same institute for a year, then as a Registrar in Oncosurgery at Tata Memorial Hospital in 1995.
In 1996, he joined Nair Hospital as a Lecturer, and in 1998, he became a Clinical Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany, working in the Pancreatic and Liver Units, including transplant surgery.
He received a Fellowship in Living Donor Liver Transplantation from Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea, in 2006. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Liver Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, in 2006.
He was the HOD of Liver Surgery at Nanavati Hospital from 2018–2019.
Dr. Wagle has been an invited international faculty at various congresses in Seoul, Shanghai, and Melbourne. He has also demonstrated liver and pancreatic surgeries in workshops.

• Founder member of the Indian Chapter of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association since 1997.

• "Surgical Management of Large Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The First Single-Centre Study from Western India," accepted for publication in Brazilian Archives of Digestive Surgery, 2020.
• "Outcome Analysis of VARD in Infected Pancreatic Necroses: A Single Centre Experience," Turk J Surg 2019.
• "Diagnosis & Management of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma in the Background of Chronic Pancreatitis: Core Issues," Dig Dis 2019.
• "Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen: An Enigmatic Entity," BMC Case Rep 2019.
• "Autoimmune Pancreatitis Type 2: First Report from India," Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017.
• And several more publications in various journals, totaling over 20 articles.