Bio

Dr. Gnaneswar Atturu has over 20 years of clinical experience and worked as consultant vascular and trauma surgeon in Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust NHS, before joining CARE hospital. He has completed his MBBS from Siddhartha Medical college, NTR university of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, M.S (General Surgery) from Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh and DNB (General surgery) from Diplomat of National Board, Delhi. He then worked as Assistant Professor in Narayana Medical College, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh before moving to United Kingdom (UK).

He worked in UK for 14 years in various positions and completed his higher surgical training from Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, United Kingdom. He has bagged several higher degrees like MRCS, FRCS, PgCert, Ch.M and MBA from UK and received the prestigious ‘The James Hogarth Pringles Gold medal’ in ChM (M.Ch) Vascular and Endovascular surgery from the Royal college of surgeons of Edinburgh.

He is currently an international faculty and module leader for the ChM Vascular and Endovascular surgery course in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He has written books, book chapters and published several peer reviewed articles in various national and international journals. He has authored the ‘Chapter 56: Lymphatic Disorders’ in the 27th Edition of Short practice of surgery Bailey and Love, a prestigious book read by doctors all over the world. He was invited as a faculty member in several national and international conferences and has personally designed and organised CME’s, courses and workshops.

He led multidisciplinary teams and clinics in Diabetic foot care and vascular access surgery in UK as a consultant vascular surgeon, the two leading diseases affecting many people in India. His expertise In diabetic limb salvage is well recognised both nationally and internationally.

Fields of Experience

• Carotid surgery
• Aortic surgery
• Vascular access surgery
• Varicose vein surgery
• Diabetic foot management
• Lymphedema

Research Presentations

• G Atturu. ‘Arterial aneurysms’ - oral presentation ,15th Annual Conference of the The Association of Thoracic & Vascular Surgeons of India, Hyderabd (Jul 2017)
• G Atturu. ‘Acute limb ischemia in patients with cancer – A poor prognostic sign’ - oral presentation at the Annual General Meeting of the Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Bournmouth, UK (Nov 2015)
• G Atturu (as international guest speaker). ‘Surgery for below the knee disease in diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease’ oral presentation, 22nd Annual Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Pune (Oct 2015)
• N Shahi, G Atturu. ‘Current management guidelines for aorto-enteric fistula – review of cases and literature’ - oral presentation, 22nd Annual Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Pune (Oct 2015)
• G Atturu (guest speaker). ‘Vascular access in elderly’ - oral presentation, 8th Northern Renal Access Meeting, Manchester, UK (May 2015)
• N Shahi, G Atturu, P.Vowden. ‘Diabetic Bullae (DB): A case series and recommended model of surgical management’ - oral presentation, 21st Annual Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Bhubaneswar (Oct 2014)
• N Shahi, G Atturu. Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of profunda artery - poster presentation, 21st Annual Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Bhubaneswar (Oct 2014)
• G Atturu, N Shahi, P Vowden. ‘Management of Diabetic foot sepsis: A protocol for junior doctors’ - poster presentation, 21st Annual Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Bhubaneswar (Oct 2014)
• L Foster, G Atturu, D Burke. ‘Left iliac fossa pain: Diverticulitis or not’ - poster presentation, Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (Jul 2013)
• Azzam Al-Amin, Jonathan Wood, Gnaneswar Atturu, Mohammed Gouda, Clare Donnellan, Dermot Burke. AV fistula for home TPN – A review of the literature – poster presentation, 34th Congress of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (Sept 2012)

Publications

• G Atturu, N Shahi, Z Sun, D.J.A. Scott (2016): ‘Acute limb ischemia in patients with malignancy’ in Venous and Arterial critical issues, Editor Armando Mansilha 2016: December pages 46-50. http://portovascularconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/book_pvc_2016-1.pdf

• Atturu G, Homer-Vanniasinkam S, Russell DA (2014): Pharmacology in peripheral arterial disease: what the interventional radiologist needs to know – Seminars in Interventional radiology 2014 Dec;31(4):330-7 PMID: 25435658

• Al-Amin A, Wood J, Atturu G, Gouda MR, Donnellan CF, Burke DA: Use of arteriovenous fistulae for home parenteral nutrition--a review of the literature.– Journal of Vacular Access 2013 Apr-Jun;14(2):99-103 PMID: 23599137

• Butt HZ, Atturu G, London NJ, Sayers RD, Bown MJ (2010): ‘Telomere length dynamics in vascular disease: a review’ - European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2010 Jul;40(1); 17-26 PMID: 20547081

• G Atturu, S Brouilette, NJ Samani, NJM. London, RD Sayers, MJ Bown.(2010): ‘Short Leukocyte Telomere Length is Associated with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)’ – EJVES 2010: 39 (5): 559 – 564 PMID: 20172749 

• R Tiruvoipati, SP Balasubramanian, G Atturu, GJ Peek, D Elbourne (2006): ‘Improving the quality of reporting randomized controlled trials in Cardiothoracic Surgery- the way forward’ – J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006:132:233-40

• G Atturu, Sambasiva Rao K; A Toxicological Study of Rasabhasma-A Bio Metalic Compound of Mercury; Journal of University of Health Sciences, Volume - II, Pages 62-66;1996; University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, India

Education

• MBBS - NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh (1998)
• MS (General Surgery) - NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh (2002)
• DNB (General Surgery) - Diplomat of National Board, Delhi (2003)
• MRCS - Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK (2004)
• FRCS - Intercollegate Board of surgical Training, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK (2013)
• PG Certificate in Diagnostic Vascular Ultrasound - University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (2014)
• ChM/MCh (Vascular and endovascular surgery) - University of Edinburgh, Ediburgh, UK (2016)
• Executive MBA - University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (2016-2018)

Languages Known

English, Hindi and Telugu

Fellow Membership

• Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
• Life member of the Vascular Society of India
• Life member of the Association of surgeons of India
• Life member of the Indian Medical Association
• Life member of the Theosophical society of India

Past Positions

• Consultant, Vascular and Trauma Surgeon, The Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds, UK (Apr 2015 - Jul 2017)
• Higher Surgical Training (LAT), General and Vascular Surgery, Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, Leeds, UK (Jan 2009 - Mar 2015)
• Clinical Research Fellow, Vascular surgery, University of Leicester, Leichester, UK (Jun 2006 - Dec 2008)
• Basic Surgical Rotation, University Hospitals of Leicester, NHS Trust, Leichester, UK (Feb 2004 - Jun 2006)
• Clinical Supervisor, University of Leeds and Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, Leeds, UK (2015-2017)
• Assistant Professor, General Surgery, Narayana Medical College, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh (2002-2003)