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Dr. Shashank Shah is a pioneer and leading Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgeon in India. He is a renowned General and Laparoscopic Surgeon with an extensive experience of more than 30,000 surgeries performed so far over the last 34 years. He has served as the President of many National Organisations of Obesity like:

• Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society of India (OSSI)
• International Excellence Federation (IEF)
• All India Association for Advancing Research In Obesity (AIAARO)

He is the only Indian to be invited as a visiting professor at various universities in Europe, USA, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Dr. Shashank Shah is the first surgeon in the world to be awarded the Vivian Fonseca Scholar Award by the prestigious American Diabetes Association for research in Surgery as Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes. He has also received the most prestigious award, Dr. Jaipal Singh Oration for the year 2017 by the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI).

He is the first Indian Bariatric Surgeon to have many publications in indexed International journals and has various research papers in internationally indexed journals. Dr. Shah is an Editorial Board Member for:

• Obesity Surgery Journal
• Bariatric Times
• Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Research

Dr. Shah’s skills and knowledge have been appreciated by both BBC and National Geographic by recording his work in various documentaries released worldwide.

Areas of Interest

• Bariatric surgery for obesity
• Metabolic surgery for Type 2 Diabetes
• Laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery
• Surgical emergencies and trauma
• Portal hypertension
• Laparoscopic oncology
• Thoracoscopic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

• Surgeon of Excellence certified by Surgical Review Corporation (SRC)
• Dr. Shah was honored with honorary FIAGS, FALS by IAGES: Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgery.
• He was awarded honorary FMAS by AMASI: Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India.
• First ever surgeon to be honored with the Vivian Fonseca Scholar Award by the American Diabetes Association for research on surgical treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (June 2016).
• World record of performing 45 hernia surgeries in just 10 hours, published by LIMCA BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS (31st July 2005).
• Received the most prestigious award and honor of Dr. Jaipal Singh Oration for the year 2017 by the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI).
• Both BBC and National Geographic have appreciated Dr. Shah’s skills and knowledge by recording his work in various documentaries released worldwide.
• Received the honor of Dr. V.S. Metgud IMA Belgaum Branch Oration.
• Received the Poona Surgical Society's International Contribution Award.
• Honored as ICON of Pune in 2016.
• Video accepted at SAGES Video Library in Florida, USA, on ‘Thoracoscopic Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis, a new approach' (April 2005).
• Presented in many national and international conferences about advances in bariatric and metabolic surgery for many years.
• Many research papers published in national and international journals and publications.
• Received an award as an innovator from IIT Innovations in 2009 for "Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes."