Kanagavel M India

Kanagavel Manickavasagam He presently serves as Director, Gastropro, Head of the teaching Department of General, Gastrointestinal and Minimal Access Surgery at St Isabel Hospital, Chennai. Kanagavel Manickavasagam graduated with honors from Government Kilpauk Medical College and postgraduation from Madras Medical College Chennai. He has obtained DNB, MNAMS, MRCS Ed and FRCS from Glasgow. He did his senior residency in Surgical Gastroenterology at Government Royapettah Hospital under the leadership of Prof S M Chandramohan. He has special interest in foregut surgery, complex corrosive stricture reconstruction, endoscopy and advanced laparoscopic surgery. He is currently a PhD research scholar in Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai. His unique initiative of Weekly National Postgraduate Clinics in General Surgery has more than 21.4K active subscribers and 780K views. His daily posts on Evidence Based Surgery across has more than 9.4k followers across the globe in the facebook platform. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Minimal Access Surgery, he currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Surgery, Executive Member of the Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons of India, Association of Surgeons of India, Tamilnadu Chapter. He is the Chair of International Affairs for of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons. He was part of the Intersociety (IAGES, AMASI and SELSI) practice guidelines committee for the laparoscopy during COVID pandemic. He serves as Academic Director of the AWRSC. He is an invited lecturer to Harvard Medical School, the European Hernia Society and Australia New Zealand Hernia Society. He serves as the Member of Academic Board, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed University) Chennai. He served as a Member of Institutional Ethics Committee for the Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University Chennai and is now is part of the Ethics Committee of the Sri Balaji Medical College, Chennai.. His original work on the influence of TP53 in esophageal carcinogenesis was recognized with Sundaram Award of the TNASI in the year 2003. He has been awarded 14 research grants which include international travelling fellowships by the Japan Surgical Society, Japanese Association of Thoracic Surgeons, International Society of Surgery and International Society for Gastrointestinal Oncology. He has fourteen named orations to his credit. He has 32 original indexed journal publications.