Dr Saurabh Misra is the Director of Minimal access, bariatrics and Rob…read moreotic surgery at Fortis hospitals BG road Bangalore since Nov 2025.
He was working as Senior Consultant and head, Coordinator, Gastrointestinal, Minimal
Access Robotic and Bariatric surgeon , at Apollo hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, 76,
since January 2007.
Completed his Robotic accreditation for DaVenci Xi system in November 2019. Now
performing robotic surgeries routinely.
Performed more than 10000, independent minimal access and 150 Robotic surgeries,
since accreditation which includes advanced Gastrointestinal, Colo- rectal, Bariatric
and complex hernia surgeries.
Author of the best selling book : ‘Incisions’ published by Stardom books, USA.
Appointed examiner by NBE ( New Delhi) for minimal access exit exams. ( 2023)
Appointed central Observer by NBE( national board of examinations) for NEET PG
examinations. ( 2024).
Executive committee Member ( South India ) : Hernia society of India ( HSI).
Faculty : HSI.
Faculty : IAGES ( Indian society of gastrointestinal endosurgeons)
Faculty : OSSI , Obesity society of India.
Faculty : Medtronics India ( Endosurgery, Hernia and Obesity surgery)
Faculty: Activ surgical, Boston, USA.
Teaching faculty for FNB Minimal access surgery.
Faculty for DNB Gastroenterology ( recently introduced in Apollo Hospitals)
Completed Laser Proctology training in Nov 2024.
Recent activities
• Presented Paper on Robotic Hernia surgery experience in Prague in June 2024
• Faculty in Young HSICON New Delhi March 2024
• Faculty in MGB con world congress in Goa, April 2024.
• Conducted Robotic Pace program in 2023.
• Conducted live Lap Sleeve surgery workshop in 2022
• Invited guest lecture at HSI, Kolkatta. August 2019
• Presented a paper ( Laparoscopic e-TEP Rives Stoppa , one units experience ) at
APHS world congress in Tokyo, Japan ( Oct 2016)
• Guest Faculty at HSI annual conference at Aurangabad ( Sept 2016)
• Guest Lecture at Aurangabad HSI, Conference . ( Sept 2016)
• Guest Lecture at KIMS Bangalore , AMACI Skill course. ( August 2016)
• Conducted a live workshop on e-TEP RS at KIMS , Bangalore. ( July 2016)
• Faculty at International Patient safety congress in Bangalore .( 2015)
• Conducted PACE programme with Medtronics India at the Apollo hospitals ,
Bangalore, as a proctor ( it is a training programme for the young surgeons across
India ) (2015)
• Conducted a PACE programme in Bombay with Medtronics ( 2015)
• Invited for a guest Lecture on Metabolic surgery in Hubli ( KMA , 2014)
• Invented a new form of Minimal Access surgery known as SMILS.( 2012) , paper
published in Journal of Minimal Access surgery in 2012
• Invited for the International Round table conference at Shanghai China 2012.
Professional
Completed MBBS from JLN Medical college, Ajmer , Rajasthan 1994
Completed Masters in surgery from RNT medical college, Udaipur , Rajasthan in the year
1997 .
3 years training in advanced Laparoscopic / Minimal Access surgery from Sir Ganga Ram
Hospital, N. Delhi, INDIA (A Centre known for its advanced laparoscopic training).
Fellowship in Bariatric surgery from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA (Worked as
a “Visiting Fellow” in Bariatric and advanced laparoscopic Surgery under chairman,
surgery, Dr Geoffrey Thompson, MD. 2005 ).
Established the department of Minimal Access and Bariatric surgery at Apollo Hospitals ,
Margao, Goa in 2003.
Established the Institute of Bariatrics at Apollo hospitals , in Bangalore in the year 2013.
Underwent brief training in Robotics , conducted by Vattikuti Technologies at Bangalore in 2014.
Till today , performed more than 10000 independent Laparoscopic surgeries which include Bariatric
surgeries like Lap. Sleeve Gastrectomy, Lap Gastric banding, Laparoscopic Lap Gastric Bypass
surgery, Lap Mini Gastric Bypass, Laparoscopic Hepatobiliary surgeries, Lap benign and
malignent Colorectal procedures, Lap assisted Vaginal Hysterectomies , Lap Adrenalectomies,
Lap Splenectomies, and numerous fertility surgeries in women. Performed numerous SILS
( Single incision surgeries ) procedures till date.
Completed accreditation for robotic surgery in 2019.
Conducted more than 75 robotic Gastrointestinal, bariatric and advanced hernia surgeries till date.
Presently training young surgeons for the same since last 15 years.
Special Contribution :
Pioneered a technique known as e TEP Rives Stoppa procedure for Ventral hernias ( Unit having
largest series of these procedures in Asia-Pacific region ) Presented a paper on the same subject at
Tokyo , Japan in Oct, 2016, Taiwan 2017 and HSI, New Delhi- 2018, HSIcon Kolkatta 2019,
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