Specialty : Gastroenterology
City : Chennai
Hospital : Gleneagles Global Hospitals
Degree(s) : MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), MRCS (Edin), MRCS (Ire), Dip (Lap. Surgery), FEBS (Liver Tx), FEBS (HPB) Sr. Consultant - Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery
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Brief Profile :
Dr Rajanikanth Patcha is working as a Senior Consultant and Lead Clinician in the liver department, at Gleneagles Global Health city, Chennai. He was trained in UK for 13years . He has 20 years of Surgical gastroenterology and 9 years of Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplantation experience.
Dr Rajanikanth Patcha did his Masters in General Surgery from the famous & prestigious institute JIPMER , Pondicherry. In 2001 he moved to England to gain specialist training in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation.
Dr Rajanikanth passion towards liver transplantation made him pursue training in world renowned Kings College hospital, London for 6 years. He worked with Prof Nigel Heaton and Prof Mohamed Rela who are the pioneers in liver transplant training and guided him through his years of training.
During his stay in UK, Dr Rajanikanth successfully completed membership of the Royal college of surgeons of Edinburgh and of Ireland . He also qualified for Fellow of European Board of surgery in Liver transplantation and Hepato biliary surgery in the year of 2014 making him one of the first South Indians to achieve this prestigious certificate in both fields.
In 2007 he gained diploma in Laparoscopy from University of Louis Pasteur, France .
Dr Rajanikanth is very compassionate with patients. With his patience and empathetic nature, he has become very popular in short time in South India.