OP Timing:

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

• 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

• 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

• Endoscopic ultrasound
• JGHTN
• OGH reports

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

• He won Sajja chandra mouli prize medal in clinical neurology in 2003
• He won many best paper presentation awards from 2010-2013. He delivered lectures in annual DDW conference at San Diego, USA 2012 and Orlando, USA 2013 for his work on pancreatitis and endoscopic ultrasound
• For his academic work in GI endoscopy, he recently received the prestigious award of best clinical reviewer 2016 from American society of GI endoscopy

•  He has presented more than 70 papers in various national and international Gastroenterology conferences including ISG, DDW, APDW, APASL, EASL, etc.

• Endoscopic ultrasound
• Acute and chronic pancreatitis
• Advanced therapeutic endoscopy, ERCP and narrow band imaging
• Biological therapy in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
• Hepatitis C
• Eosinophilic esophagitis
• Liver transplantation