Dr. Vinodha Reddy

Dr Vinodha Reddy K is joining Aster WF as the HOD of Surgical Gastroenterology, Minimally Invasive Surgery and Bariatric Surgery. He has 30 years of surgical experience both in India and abroad (UK). He is a MBBS graduate from Bangalore Medical College, where he also completed his postgraduate MS in general surgery in 1995. He went on to complete DNB (General Surgery) and FRCS from Edinburg, UK. Dr Reddy, later migrated to the UK and trained in Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, Advance Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery and eventually worked as a consultant in the UK-NHS hospitals. He then trained and earned his Diploma in Advance Laparoscopic Surgery from Louis Pasture University, Strasburg, France. He was also sponsored by the NHS-UK to attend an extensive Bariatric Surgery training program in the one of the world’s best bariatric surgical units in Belgium and thus, gained his Fellowship in Bariatric Surgery in 2009. Dr Reddy, returned to India in 2011 where he worked as a consultant surgical gastroenterologist and bariatric surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore for the next 12 years. He has vast experience in all forms of complicated Gastrointestinal, Hepatobilliary and Pancreatic Surgery, wherein majority of the surgeries were Laprascopic or Robotic in nature. He has performed innumerable Bariatric surgeries of all types, including Robotic Weight Reduction surgeries and Revision Bariatric surgeries. He is also considered to be one of the pioneers in Bariatric Surgery. Areas of expertises:Bariatric SurgeryUpper Gastrointestinal SurgeryHepatobiliary and Pancreatic SurgeryColorectal SurgeryAnoproctology Advance Laparoscopic and Robotic SurgeryComplex Hernial Surgery