Shailesh V. Shrikhande

Biography

 hailesh V. Shrikhande is Professor of Surgery and Head of GI and HPB Cancer Surgery at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. He has received specialist training in Pancreatic Research and Surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland and University of Heidelberg, Germany. A fellow of the prestigious Warren Fellowship of the IHPBA, he has published over 180 clinical and basic science papers (including a series of 500 Whipple resections) in leading peer reviewed journals and given live operative demonstrations on pancreatic, gastric and colorectal cancer in workshops all over India and Asia. Apart from over 400 invited lectures and orations around the world, he has contributed over 50 book chapters and edited 4 books on GI and Pancreatic Cancers. To promote awareness on pancreatic tumors, he founded the website www.pancreaticcancerindia.com. He serves on editorial and review boards of many international journals and is the Vice Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the IHPBA and a member - at - large of the Asia - Pacific - HPBA. He is also the President Elect, Indian Chapter of IHPBA. He is the only Indian who is a member of the well-known International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS). In recognition of his work on GI Cancer Surgery in India, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS - ad eundem) of England in 2014.

Research Interest

 Cancer surgery