Qualifications

• MBBS, AMC, Visakhapatnam, 1998
• MD (General Medicine), PGI, Chandigarh, 2008
• DM (Gastroenterology), PGI, Chandigarh, 2011
• Advanced therapeutic endoscopy fellowship, PGI, Chandigarh, 2012

Experience

• Chief gastroenterologist, KIMS-ICON Hospital, Visakhapatnam
• Chief gastroenterologist, Pinnacle Hospital, Visakhapatnam, April 2016 - September 2018
• Gastroenterology specialist, Bahrain specialist Hospital, Baharin, 2014 - 2015
• Gastroenterology consultant, Queens NRI Hospital, Visakhapatnam 2013

Achievements

• He is the first to do endoscopic ultrasound in the region of north coastal Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha. He did more than 20000 procedures including ERCP, 
• EUS, therapeutic endoscopy and colonoscopy

Publications

He has published around 48 papers in various peer reviewed national and international journals.

He is currently Editor for journals like:

• Endoscopic ultrasound
• JGHTN
• OGH reports

He is currently the reviewer for the journals:

• Gastrointestinal endoscopy
• Endoscopy
• Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
• Hepatology international
• Tropical gastroenterology
• ACG case reports journal