General Surgeon with Special Interest in Upper GI Surgery

2022

(General Surgery Department, WHH)- General Surgery Consultant of the Year

(General Surgery Department, WHH)- Researcher of the Year

Best Paper and research in Audit / QIP- National Meeting- William Harvey Surgical Evening (Won by trainee - I was the senior author)

Certificate of Appreciation for support to Clinical Audit (HQIP, N- QI-Can and EKHUFT trust)

Moynihan Prize – Nominated for best Research papers at ASGBI -2022 (I was the senior author)

National: Oral presentation winner for Turnaround in Clinical Audit- How we moved to be one of the best - Healthcare conference, UK 2021

2021

BMJ nomination for Feel Good Factor “Health and Workforce Category”- Annual awards.

2010

First prize (first author) in the Liver Transplant section – Oral paper section – IASG (Indian Association of Surgical gastroenterology) (Comparison of CT volumetry with actual graft volume in Living donor Liver Transplant programme)

2009

Second prize (first author) in the Critically acclaimed oral-poster prize at IASG. (Role of Contrast ultrasound for the detection of colorectal metastases)

Shortlisted (first author) for the Patey prize at Society of Academic Research Society (SARS) : Academic research prize in the UK. (Research on Contrast ultrasound for colorectal liver metastases)

2006

First prize (first author) for the best poster at the ISG 2006 (Indian Society of Gastroenterology)for Role of laparoscopic ultrasound and hepatic artery lymph node in the staging of pancreatic head cancers

2002

Recommended and honoured for the Best Team Effort in the City of Mumbai for a mass trauma.

Research funds granted

  • 2022- Funds granted by the Charities of East Kent – £7500 for our proposed research on Gut Microbiome in Gall stone disease In Process to submitting the IRAS form. 
  • 2005- A sum of £62,500 was awarded by the Charitable trustees of United Bristol healthcare Trust to support the funding of the ultrasound machine in 2005.