Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Alabama
Vestavis, Alabama, United States
I am Associate Professor with tenure, James P Hayes Endowed Professor and Director of Division of Surgical Oncology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. I have completed bachelor of medicine and surgery (MBBS) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India. I also received master of surgery (MS) from AIIMS in 2005. Thereafter, I spent next 3 years doing research on the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer and developing novel therapies against this aggressive disease. Afterwards I received residency training in general surgery at the University of Minnesota from 2008-2013. Following residency, I completed a complex general surgical oncology fellowship and hepato-pancreato-billiary fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 2013-15. I am also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
My clinical interests include taking care of patients with pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cyst, hepatobiliary malignancies including cholangiocarcinoma, kaltskin tumor, colorectal cancer liver metastases, and benign disease like bile duct injury and chronic pancreatitis. On research front, my laboratory focuses on deciphering the biology of tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer and interaction of gut microbiome with anti-cancer immune response. Elucidation of the mechanism and determinants of tumor recurrence is another key area studied in our laboratory. These research efforts are funded by grants from National Institute of Health (NIH), Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and Society Grants. My work has been published in high impact journals like Gastroenterology, GUT, Clinical Cancer Research and Nature Reviews in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. I serve on the editorial board of Gastroenterology, Journal of Surgical Research and American Journal of Physiology-Liver and GI, and routinely reviews manuscripts submitted to many journals including Pancreatology, eBiomedicine, Communication Biology, Annals of Surgical Oncology.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
3:31 PM – 3:39 PM CST
Thursday, March 10, 2022
3:39 PM – 3:41 PM CST
Friday, March 11, 2022
10:33 AM – 10:43 AM CST