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Pioneering work in Breast Surgery

Breast Diagnostics and Oncoplastic Surgery

  • Pioneered the concept of ‘single stage immediate breast reconstruction with expandable prosthesis’ in India.
  • Incorporated all cosmetic breast surgical procedures in practice to the benefit of breast cancer patients and developed proficiency in procedures such as breast reduction, breast augmentation and nipple-areola reconstruction.
  • First in India to introduce procedures such as Breast Conserving Surgery, Oncoplastic Surgery, Sentinel Node Biopsy, Mammotome, Vacuum Assisted Biopsy, etc. in India
  • Performed and established protocol for conservative breast cancer surgeries since 1994, was the first in Pune and one of the first pioneers in the country to adopt this procedure
  • Established procedures for management of non-palpable lesions of breast for the first time in 1995, again one of the pioneers to adopt the procedures
  • Performed more than 2000 breast surgeries till date including more than 900 oncoplastic surgeries, above 200 breast reconstructions & above 850 sentinel node excisions

Areas other than Breast Surgery

  • Pioneered several surgical procedures in 1990’s such as Liver Cryotherapy, Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) and Hepatic artery catheterization for liver tumors. Was the only surgeon in India to do Cryosurgery.
  • First in India to establish vascular access team using long-term venous access techniques in 1994. Conducted numerous workshops in India on the same
  • Established with fellow radiotherapists ‘Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Protocol’, one of the first such programs in India presented at RSNA, Chicago
  • Performed several low anterior resections on liver and conducted multiple workshops on Stapler Surgery
  • Been a principal investigator and co-investigator in several international trials