Dr. Vikas Singhal

Brief Profile:

After graduating from Maulana Azad Medical College, Dr.Vikas Singhal continued his surgical training in the United Kingdom and the United States. He completed a fiveyear surgical residency at the Guthrie Clinic in Pennsylvania. He then underwent advanced training in advanced laparoscopy and bariatric surgery at Case Medical Center, Cleveland, USA. He is a board certified surgeon by the American Board of Surgery. He also received a fellowship from the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS). He believes in honest and ethical patient care and the practice of evidence-based medicine. He has several indexed publications in GI Surgery in famous journals and received the best paper award from Journal of GI Surgery (JOGS) and Society of Surgeons of the Alimentary tract (SSAT), USA. He is also part of the editorial board of many

Education:

• M.B.B.S. – Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University, India, Feb 2002
• M.R.C.S. – Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow, UK, July 2005
• Board Certified- American Board of Surgery, Jan 2014
• Certification in Bariatric Surgery, American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), October 2014
• F.A.C.S – American College of Surgeons, October 2016

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Journal of GI Surgery (JOGS) 2012 best paper award
• Stanley Conklin Research Award Guthrie Clinic- 2nd prize for the best paper in the review of literature category, June 2013
• Stanley Conklin Research Award Guthrie Clinic – prize for the best case report, June 2013
• Stanley Conklin Research Award Guthrie Clinic – 2nd prize in the clinical research category, June 2013
• Clinical research study, ‘Biliary Dyskinesia: Are we treating it right?’, plenary presentation at the 26th Annual Residents and Fellows SSAT Research Conference, Chicago, May 6, 2011
• Stanley Conklin Research Award, Guthrie Clinic- 1st prize for best research paper in the case report category, June 2011
• Lynn Smaha Resident Research Competition – 2nd prize at Guthrie Annual Cardiovascular Symposium, October 2009
• Travel grant from the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh– funded for travel to Hong Kong for plenary presentation at the joint meeting of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and College of Surgeons of Hong Kong, October 2006

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Member- American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
• Member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• Member of the Society for Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT)
• Member of the American College of Surgeons (ACS)