Dr.Siddhartha Chakravarthy is currently a consultant Endocrine and Breast Onco-Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills. He completed his MCh in Endocrine and Breast surgery at the prestigious Christian Medical College, Vellore. He worked as a consultant in the department of Endocrine & Breast Surgery, CMC Vellore, and has extensive experience in performing thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and breast surgeries. He specializes in minimally invasive procedures including scarless thyroidectomy (TOETVA) and retroperitonioscopic adrenalectomy. He has numerous publications and has presented papers in various national and international forums. He has undergone training at reputed international centres in Sydney, Seoul and Bangkok.
1998 – Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.)
NTR University of Health Sciences, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Mar ‘03 to Mar ’04 – Internship
NTR University of Health Sciences, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India
April ’04 to April ’05 – Resident Doctor
Medi-Kid Pediatric Speciality Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
July ’05 to July ’08 – Post Graduate Trainee (MS Master of General Surgery)
NTR University of Health Sciences, Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh India.
Aug ’12 to Aug’15 – MCh Senior Registrarcandidate (Fellow)
Endocrine Surgery, MGR University of Health Sciences Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Aug ’09 to Aug’10 – Assistant Professor
General Surgery, Dr.Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College and Hospital, Karakonam, Kerala, India
Aug’10 to Feb’12 – Consultant in General and Head and Neck Cancer
Department of General Surgery and Head and Neck Cancer, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
February 2012 to August -15 – Senior Registrar Endocrine Surgery
Department of Endocrine Surgery & Breast Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
September 2015 to August 2018 – Consultant Endocrine and Breast Onco-Surgeon
Department of Endocrine and Breast-Surgery Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
September 2018 till date – Consultant Endocrine and Breast Onco-Surgeon, Apollo hospital
Dr.Siddhartha worked as a Consultant in the Endocrine and Breast Surgery unit at Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore. CMC&H, Vellore is a 2000-bedded tertiary care teaching hospital in South India. It has consistently been ranked among the top institutes in the country for patient care, as well as for academic and research activities.
The unit is one of the reputed departments in this field in the country. It consists of four consultants threeMCh trainees and one or two MS general surgery post-graduates. His experience included surgeries on the thyroid gland, parathyroid, adrenal gland, extra-adrenal phaeochromocytomas, paragangliomas, endocrine tumours of pancreas and advanced laparoscopic surgeries. Surgeries of the breast included operations for both benign diseases and malignancies of the breast. Dr.Siddhartha has performed —– thyroid surgeries, —– parathyroid surgeries and ——– breast surgeries during his tenure at this institution.
During his tenure in this unit, Dr.Siddhartha performed general surgical work (both elective and emergency procedures) as well as basic laparoscopic surgeries.
He also performed various kinds of block dissections and composite resections for oral malignancies.
He was also involved with teaching undergraduates, interns as well as postgraduate students.
Christian Mission Hospital is a tertiary level hospital situated in Kerala. As an Assistant Professor, his work included managing a busy outpatient department, operating on a wide variety of elective and emergency general surgical cases.
VyagareshwaruduMemorial award paper presentation- XXIV Annual Conference and South Zone Conference APASICON 2006, 8th , 9th& 10th September. Corrosive strictures of pyloric antrum- Billroth 1 gastrectomy? Surgical procedure of choice”
Poster presentation: Is it necessary to perform routine preoperative laryngoscopic examination before thyroidectomy – SGPGI Lucknow. 2013
“Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology in thyroid nodule > 1cm”, 14TH Congress of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons, in Negombo, 2014, Sri Lanka
“Laryngotracheal resection in locally advanced thyroid carcinomas, was accepted for prize paper presentation in the 15th Congress of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons from April 7 to 9, 2016 in the COEX, Seoul, Korea
1st prize for poster presentation “Is it necessary to perform routine preoperative laryngoscopic examination before thyroidectomy” – 11th Postgraduate Endocrine Surgery Course 2013, SGPGI Lucknow.
Professor S.Vittal Best Paper Award at 75th Annual Conference of Associations of Surgeons of India (ASI) held at Gurgoan on 19th December-2015.
Travel Grant Award in recognition of excellence in abstract for the travel grant at the 15th Congress of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons Coex, Seoul. South Korea.
Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney ( 25May 2015 to 21 June 2015) : One month ICRETT fellowship in the Department of Endocrine Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia. Under the guidance of Dr. Mark Sywak, Dr Stan Sidhu and Prof. Leigh Delbridge
Seoul National University of Health: (April – 2016) : Attended a two weeks workshop on Endoscopic (bilateral axilla and breast approach BABA) and Robotic thyroidectomy in Seoul National University Hospital, Bundang and Samsung Hospital in Seoul Korea.
Police General Hospital Bangkok :Training in transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy from the Dr.Angkoon Anuwong, who is the pioneer in this procedure.
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