Dr. Satheesh has a distinguished academic career. His entire medical and surgical training has been from renowned government medical institutions across Tamilnadu. He is a surgeon with multiple accreditations from prestigious surgical societies of India and abroad.Dr. Satheesh completed his MBBS graduation from Coimbatore Medical College in the year 2002. He did his basic surgical training from Government Royapettah Hospital, Chennai and was awarded “MS (General Surgery)” degree in 2006. During his basic surgical training, he developed great passion towards surgical gastroenterology and laparoscopic surgery. During his training, he was inspired by Prof. Jeswanth, Professor of Surgical Gastroenterology at the famous Stanley Medical College, Chennai. Prof. Jeswanth continues to inspire and support him even to this date.

Dr. Satheesh soon went on to get accreditation from National Board of Examinations, New Delhi and was awarded DNB degree in general surgery in 2008. Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland decorated him with a membership soon. He was awarded MRCS by the Royal College in 2008.

After years of systematic hard work, Dr. Satheesh was selected for the highly sort after M.Ch (Surgical Gastroenterology) at the prestigious Madras Medical College, Chennai in 2010. His hard work was rewarded aptly when, he was awarded “M.Ch (Surgical Gastroenterology)” by the Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University with Prof. N. Rangabashyam gold medal in the year 2013. Immediately after his higher specialty training, he was appointed as consultant surgeon, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Minimal access surgery at Global Health City, Chennai.

His educational enthusiasm, however did not stop. Dr. Satheesh was once again accredited by the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi and was awarded DNB (Surgical Gastroenterology) degree in 2015. His passion towards laparoscopic colorectal surgery earned him a fellowship as he was awarded a fellowship in the association of colon and rectal surgeons of India in 2015 (FACRSI). He successfully performed numerous major operations for diseases of esophagus, stomach, Colon and rectum during the subsequent few years. Next acknowledgement for Dr. Satheesh’s academic credentials was from the American college of surgeons. The American College of Surgeons awarded him FACS in 2015.

Following his vision to set up a dedicated gastroenterology center at Coimbatore, Dr. Satheesh moved to Coimbatore subsequently. He did numerous successful laparoscopic operations for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Gallbladder Stones, Abdominal wall Hernias, Esophageal cancer, Gastric cancer, Colorectal cancer and Malignant/Benign Hepatobiliary Pancreatic diseases. Result of these minimally invasive operations was a pain free postoperative period, early discharge from hospital and presence of very tiny scars that could hardly be recognized, thereby giving a cosmetically appealing outcome to his patients with major gastrointestinal diseases.

Dr. Anand Bharathan completed his MBBS graduation from Coimbatore Medical College in the year 2002. He did his basic surgical training from Coimbatore Medical College and was awarded “MS (General Surgery)” degree in 2005. He did his higher surgical training in Surgical gastroenterology from the prestigious Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad and was awarded “DNB (Surgical Gastroenterology)” in the year 2010. Immediately after his higher surgical training, he was appointed as consultant surgeon and Assistant Professor at Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore that is a world-renowned medical institution. Pancreatic surgery constituted major part of his work there. His passion in liver surgery and liver transplantation soon resulted in a training opportunity.Dr. Anand went for further training in Liver Surgery and Liver Transplantation at Global Health City, Chennai under the guidance of world-renowned liver transplant surgeon, Prof. Mohamed Rela. Dr. Anand was the first trainee of Prof. Rela after he returned from the United Kingdom. Following completion of training, Dr. Anand was awarded “Post Doctoral Fellowship in Liver Transplantation” by Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University in 2013. Dr. Anand was appointed as Consultant Surgeon in the “Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation” at Global Health City, Chennai after successful completion of his fellowship training.

Dr. Anand has been part of 450 living donor liver transplantations and 150 deceased donor liver transplantations till date. He has participated in both donor and recipient operations in liver transplantation. He has got expertise in deceased donor organ recovery and a significant experience in performance of liver resections in living liver donors. He has a significant experience in patient selection for liver transplantation and in preoperative and postoperative care of patients who undergo liver transplantation.

He has huge experience in major liver resections for hilar cholangiocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma and metastatic liver disease. Liver resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma is a particularly challenging operation and Dr. Anand has a very special interest in this problem. This operation is performed with good outcomes only in very few centres across the world. He aims to develop a center of excellence for performance of liver resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma at Coimbatore.

He has performed several major liver resections for tumors in children. He has good experience in all types of shunt operations for portal hypertension. He has performed about 150 Whipple’s pancreaticoduodenectomies, many with portal vein resection. Whipple’s Pancreaticoduodenectomy with portal vein resection is performed only in very few centres in India, and Dr. Anand’s significant experience in this operation is likely to be of great help to the people who he aims to serve. He has significant experience in other major pancreatic operations including distal pancreatectomy, central pancreatectomy, Frey’s operation and pancreatic necrosectomy for acute pancreatitis.

Dr. Anand has successfully performed over 100 operations for bile duct injuries and strictures for the treatment of post cholecystectomy bile duct injuries. A significant majority of these operations were performed in the early post injury period. This is done only in very few centres in India and even across the world, but results in reducing the period of illness in these patients.