Dr. Yamini Chitra is a well experienced surgical gastroenterologist and agastro intestinal cancer specialist, with great expertise in diagnosing, treatingall problems related to the field of gastroenterology from esophagus to analcanal. Her clinical acumen has helped diagnose common diseases withunusual presentations, rare problems where patients were cured of ailmentswhich troubled them for years. Some were even referred to psychiatriststhinking they were acting up!Her special focus of interest has been hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases,experience gained through treating hundreds of patients with these problemscoming from north eastern parts of India, where these problems are morecommon. Being a lady surgeon, she has helped lot of women with problemsrelating to piles, passing blood in stools etc., which due to shyness, womenhardly tell it in open but suffer in silence. She has great expertise andexperience in treating all types of gastro related cancers starting from canceresophagus, cancer stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreatic cancers, cancers ofcolon, rectum and anal canal to name a few.There are cancer survivors treated by Dr.Yamini leading healthy lives formore than ten years who live to tell the tale. Key-hole or laproscopicsurgeries are performed with excellent clinical outcome. Bariatric surgeriesto assist people who are over weight with metabolic problems likeuncontrolled diabetes, severe osteoarthritis of knee etc., are also done whichhelps them lose weight and live healthy long life.She has been a great teacher to several batches of MBBS and MS post-graduate students in the past with several international publications to hercredit. A two time gold medalist, she has won The Dr. Ramakrishnan GoldMedal in Paediatric Surgery in the year 2001 and the prestigiousDr.Rangabashyam Gold Medal for excellence in GI surgery in the year 2008.