| Dr. Hitesh Chavda |
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| Dr Hitesh Chavda is senior consultant Hepatobiliary / Liver transplant Surgeon and division chief of HPB and Liver Transplant program at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad. |
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| Dr Chavda graduated from the Medical Faculty, University of Gujarat in 1993 and completed his residency training from the same University and obtained his Masters degree (MS) in 1997. He subsequently completed is advance surgical training and obtained his surgical fellowship (FRCS) from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK in 1999. |
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| He obtained advanced training in Liver Surgery in Paris, France and obtained further training in Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery from Heidelberg, Germany in 2004. |
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| In year 2007, he completed one-year fellowship training in Liver Surgery & Transplantation at the Asian Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore under the directorship of Dr K C Tan. Dr K C Tan is a pioneer in the field of Liver Transplantation and has performed the largest number of living donor liver transplants in south East Asia. His transplant programme is the only private centre in Asia to reach this historical milestone. During his stay in Singapore he also completed microvascular surgery training from National University of Singapore. |
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| He also visited Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, South Korea for three weeks under the prestigious International Scholars Program for Living Donor Liver Transplantation training in year 2007. This is one of the largest living donor liver transplant program in the world. He has also visited several busy transplantation centers in Europe where he gained experience in various aspects of deceased donor multiorgan retrieval and whole liver transplantation. He has been the driving force to co-ordinate efforts to start a cadaveric liver transplantation in Gujarat and Ahmedabad in particular. His main areas of interest are Liver Cancer and Liver Transplantation with particular emphasis major hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma. |
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| He is a member of several prestigious professional organizations including the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Association of Surgeons of India, International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, and Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons, Association of Minimal access Surgeons of India, Indian Medical Association, Gujarat State Surgeons Association and Gujarat Gastroenterology Society. |
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