Dr. Yamini Chitra is a well experienced surgical gastroenterologist an…read mored a
gastro intestinal cancer specialist, with great expertise in diagnosing, treating
all problems related to the field of gastroenterology from esophagus to anal
canal. Her clinical acumen has helped diagnose common diseases with
unusual presentations, rare problems where patients were cured of ailments
which troubled them for years. Some were even referred to psychiatrists
thinking they were acting up!
Her special focus of interest has been hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases,
experience gained through treating hundreds of patients with these problems
coming from north eastern parts of India, where these problems are more
common. Being a lady surgeon, she has helped lot of women with problems
relating to piles, passing blood in stools etc., which due to shyness, women
hardly tell it in open but suffer in silence. She has great expertise and
experience in treating all types of gastro related cancers starting from cancer
esophagus, cancer stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreatic cancers, cancers of
colon, rectum and anal canal to name a few.
There are cancer survivors treated by Dr.Yamini leading healthy lives for
more than ten years who live to tell the tale. Key-hole or laproscopic
surgeries are performed with excellent clinical outcome. Bariatric surgeries
to assist people who are over weight with metabolic problems like
uncontrolled diabetes, severe osteoarthritis of knee etc., are also done which
helps 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 her
credit. A two time gold medalist, she has won The Dr. Ramakrishnan Gold
Medal in Paediatric Surgery in the year 2001 and the prestigious
Dr.Rangabashyam Gold Medal for excellence in GI surgery in the year 2008.read less