Gleneagles Global Health City

Dr. Dinesh Nayak is a senior consultant neurologist and epileptologist at Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai, India, and the Director of the Department of Neurology and the Advanced Centre for Epilepsy. Dr Dinesh received the S.M. Munirathinam Chetty Gold Medal for getting the highest marks in the final MD test while studying neurology (DM degree) at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, India, a national institute, from 1993 to 1995. He was given the Dr. PN Berry fellowship for epileptology training at King's College Hospital in London, UK in 2000, where he got training in intracranial EEG and video-EEG until 2003. He was an active participant in the epilepsy surgery programme at the world-renowned R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, and has evaluated over 2000 drug-resistant epilepsy patients prior to surgery. He specialises in video-EEG monitoring, medically refractory epilepsy pre-surgery assessment, vagal nerve stimulation, and intracranial EEG monitoring. He was a member of the faculty at King's College Hospital's yearly video-EEG Master class in London, UK. View Profile

Dr. Joy Varghese is the Director of Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology at Gleneagles Global Health City, which is located in Chennai, India. He is one of India's most senior transplant hepatologists. Dr. Joy has been in the medical industry for over a decade and has conducted over 1500 successful liver transplants. He was instrumental in establishing liver transplant programmes at both government and private facilities in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Dr Joy has extensive experience in general hepatology and has given over 1000 talks on liver disease and liver transplantation in India and internationally. He is the first person in India to commence therapeutic plasma exchange in various liver disorders, and he is the first person to successfully do hepatitis B virus-related liver transplantation utilising highly immune plasma. He has around 100 research articles in the subject of liver disorders. View Profile

Dr. Mettu Srinivas Reddy is the Director of Liver Transplantation as well as Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Gleneagles Global Hospital & Health City in Chennai, India. He specialises in living donor liver transplantation, paediatric liver transplantation, and surgery for liver, pancreatic, and biliary tract malignancies. He believes in a true multidisciplinary approach to treating adults and children with complicated liver disorders, and he is very concerned with treatment results and overall patient satisfaction. Dr. Srinivas Reddy received his medical training at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry, India, where he also completed an ICMR studentship in Pharmacology. He finished his general surgery residency at Chandigarh's Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER). He subsequently relocated to the United Kingdom to pursue a career in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. He conducted fellowships at liver transplant centres in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Leeds before receiving the Royal College of Surgeons' FRCS in General Surgery & Transplant. During this time, he also did research at the Universities of Newcastle and Sunderland on increasing transplant outcomes through the use of new organ preservation techniques. This research, which culminated in his doctoral thesis, was partially funded by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. View Profile

Dr. Kesavan A R is a highly trained orthopaedic surgeon with over 22 years of expertise in joint replacement and difficult hip and pelvic operations. He is now employed at Gleneagles Global Health City as a Senior Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon. His particular experience in Complex Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery, fractures of the pelvis and acetabulum, and all severe fractures is recognised by colleagues and patients. He is also particularly interested in hip joint development and dysplasia, having treated numerous youngsters with hip problems. He received his training in hip and knee replacement surgery in Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom (including Computer aided Knee Replacement Surgery). Trauma surgical training was completed in Germany, and specialist training in Pelvis and Acetabular fractures was completed in France and Switzerland. He has been a part of and contributed to several important orthopaedic research articles. He has presented in several forums on Revision Joint Replacement and Acetabular Fractures and is recognised as an authority in these issues. He has attended a number of conferences and gatherings, including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Asia-Pacific Arthroplasty Society, the Emile Letournel Course, and the Intelligent Hip Surgery Course. He also belongs to the Tamilnadu Orthopaedic Association, the Indian Orthopaedic Association, the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society, and the Association of PelviAcetabular Surgeons. View Profile

Dr. M.P. Ram Prabu is a Madurai Medical College-trained MBBS professional. He earned his MD in General Medicine from JIPMER in Pondicherry and his DM in Medical Oncology from the reputed All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. After finishing his DM, he worked for 5 years at MIOT hospital before joining Gleneagles Global Health City. He has 14+ years of experience treating cancer patients and is skilled at providing systemic medicines such as targeted therapies and immunotherapies in addition to chemotherapy. He received HIPEC training at Christie Manchester, UK, and has treated over 100 patients with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in peritoneal surface malignancies. He also specialises in autologous bone marrow transplantation. He has published articles in numerous international publications and served as a speaker and panellist at various national and regional conferences. He is committed to providing high-quality, complete patient treatment, including mental, psychological, socioeconomic, and preventative elements, as well as updating academic information and using it when treating patients. View Profile

Dr. Muthu Kumar is a highly skilled and experienced Nephrologist who is now employed at Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai. His specialties include Clinical Nephrology, Dialysis, and Kidney Transplantation. He earned his undergraduate degree at Coimbatore Medical College, his postgraduate medical study in General Medicine at Govt. Stanley Medical College, and his super-speciality degree in Nephrology at Madras Medical College in Chennai. View Profile

Dr. Nigel Symss is a neurosurgeon from India with various international fellowships and 16 years of expertise in cranial and spinal surgery. He has served as a consultant neurosurgeon at reputed Chennai neurosurgical centres. He specialised in the transcallosal approach to colloid cysts and ventricular tumours in the brain, and he has several papers on the subject. He has conducted substantial research on hydrocephalus and shunt systems, and he now serves on the "Hydrocephalus Research World Record Ranking Committee." With a current focus on functional neurosurgery, he did a fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre in Australia. He has successfully done over 5000 neurosurgery surgeries in adults and children, including cranial and spinal. Dr. Nigel P Symss received his undergraduate education from Bangalore Medical College in 1993. He received his DNB in 2005 after completing five years of neurosurgical training at the reputed Post Graduate Institute of Neurological Surgery, VHS Medical Centre, Chennai. Until 2011, he worked as a consultant neurosurgeon at the same institute, perfecting complicated cranial and spinal surgical operations. With a passion for paediatric neurosurgery, he was given the Oi-Sami Fellowship at Jikei University School of Medicine in Japan in 2007, where he conducted considerable research on hydrocephalus and neuro endoscopy. He has several hydrocephalus-related articles in international journals to his name. He was given a one-year spinal fellowship at Adelaide's Flinders Medical Centre in 2011, where he received training in difficult spinal surgery, neuro navigation, and micro neurosurgery. With a growing interest in functional neurosurgery, he was awarded another fellowship in 2014 at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, where he received training in functional neurosurgery and micro neurosurgery and worked in the same neurosurgical unit for two and a half years using cutting-edge technology to treat complex brain tumours. View Profile

Prof. S. Rajasundaram is a well-known South Indian Surgical Oncologist with over 25 years of expertise. He is the Oncology Director of Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai. He has successfully performed over 18000 major procedures, including complicated Head & Neck surgeries with micro vascular reconstruction, Laparoscopic GI & Gynaec - Onco Surgeries, and state of the art breast cancer surgeries such as Onco -Plastic Reconstruction and Sentinel Lymph node Biopsy. He has given several guest lectures at both the national and international levels. He has worked as a senior consultant for the past 20 years and has held numerous positions in academic institutes. He is a respected and active member of oncology organisations like as IASO, ISO, AROI, ESMO, OGGSI, IMA, and others. He developed the unique UNWAIT PHILOSOPHY in Gleneagles Global Health City with the goal of providing rapid and advanced care to our cancer patients with correct counselling by not extending the length of stay and commencing the therapy. View Profile