Senior Consultant Surgeon | International Professor (Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation) | Vice President College of Surgeons Singapore (2015 – 2017)
MBBS, FRCS (Glasg), FRCS (Gen Surg-Transplant), FAMS (Singapore),
Hesperis Diploma in Transplantation (European College of Transplantation-ECOT)
Dr. Ravishankar is a specialist in laparoscopic surgeries, as well as multi-organ transplants, specifically the liver, kidney, pancreas and small bowel regions. He has pioneered numerous advanced surgical procedures in Singapore as well as South East Asia’s first SILS Appendectomy.
Full Registration number – 4372963
CCST – Specialist Registration in Surgery
Full Registration number – 10721B
No. 002368 (SAB in General Surgery)
Certificate number 0 – 557 – 531 – 1
Performed the first three liver transplants in patients with portal vein thrombosis at NUH. This has also included the only paediatric patient with portal vein thrombosis who also had hepatopulmonary syndrome with low PaO2. All of them were discharged well from the hospital. Performed the first living donor hepatectomy for liver transplant, Portal & Hepatic Vein anastomosis for the liver transplant in Semarang, Indonesia
Performed all the in house, living donor hepatectomies for liver transplants at NUH during the last two & half years, without any morbidity/mortality
Performed liver transplants in rats for research purposes and pancreatic islets equivalent injection into renal subcapsule and omentum for diabetic research
Maintained a nil mortality for all my hepatectomies during the last 4 years with a bile leak rate of less than 3%. Performed Whipple’s operation with 30-day mortality of nil during the last 4 years though the numbers for the latter have been small
As head of the division, performed major surgeries such as Whipples procedure in patients with Hep B Cirrhosis. On literature search in English language, there were 4 such previously submitted cases and ours has been submitted as, perhaps the fifth case. In addition to this also performed major liver resections in similarly cirrhotic patients
Performed lap cholecystectomy in patients with gangrenous gall bladder, cirrhotic patients and in patients with poor cardiac function (EF<30%). The latter is under preparation for publication. This has been done with 0% bile duct injury and maintaining a conversion rate in the region of 5%
by the ministry of Health & manpower development, Singapore.
in conjunction with University of Warwick, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry.
Distinctions in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology,
Microbiology, Forensic Medicine.
Bangalore, Karnataka state – April 1989.
Government of India National Merit Scholarship 1979 – 87.
Postgraduate Merit Scholarship 1990 – 92.
Bangalore, Karnataka state – April 1989.
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