Dr. P. Kumaraswamy - Best HPB and Liver Transplant Surgeon in Banjara Hills

Field(s) of Expertise

• Living donor liver transplantation
• Complex hepatobiliary surgeries
• Minimal invasive hepatectomy
• Pediatric liver transplantation

Research and Presentations

• “Assessment of liver structure and function before and after proximal spleno renal shunt in patients with extrahepatic portal vein obstruction”- dissertation topic as part of fulfilment of MCh HPB Surgery, actively involved in management of patients with EHPVO.
• “Comparison of proliferative and differentiation potential of adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cell in cirrhotics and healthy individuals”-dissertation topic as part of fulfilment of MCh HPB Surgery, had exposure to molecular research methodology and analysis.

Publications

• Early liver transplantation after COVID-19 infection- The first report. Anand V Kulkarni, P Kumaraswamy, Pramod Kumar, Mithun Sharma, Raghuram Reddy, Rajesh Gupta, Palat Balachandran Menon, D Nageshwar Reddy, P Nagaraja Rao: American Journal of Transplantation: 28 January 2021; doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16509.
• Leucocytosis before liver transplant, source could be hiding in the heart: Case report.  Tandon M, Kumaraswamy P, Sood AK, Pamecha V: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, volume 62, issue 12, December 2018. 
• Living donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure: Donor safety and recipient outcomes. Pamecha, V., Vagadiya, A., Sinha, P. K., Sandhyav, R., Kumaraswamy, P., Sasturkar, S., … Sarin, S. K. Liver transplantation, volume 25, issue 9, 1408-1421.
• Expanding donor pool for live donor liver transplantation: utilization of donors with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis after optimization. Viniyendra Pamecha, Nilesh Patil, Kumaraswamy P, ……Langenbeck’s archives of surgery, Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2022 Jun;407(4):1575-1584. doi: 10.1007/s00423-022-02444-5.
• Downstaging with atezolizumab-bevacizumab: a case series. Kulkarni AV, Kumaraswamy P, Menon B, Sekaran A, Rambhatla A, Iyengar S, Alla M, Venishetty S, Ramachandra SK, Premkumar GV, Sharma M, Rao PN, Reddy DN, Singal AG.  J Liver Cancer. 2024 Sep;24(2):224-233. 

Education

• M.Ch (Hepatopancreato biliary surgery and Liver transplantation) - Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India, 2018
• M.S. (General Surgery) - Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences - 2012
• MBBS - M S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore 2008

Awards and Recognitions

• Best Poster presentation RGCON-2018, New Delhi.
• Best presentation of the year award, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, 2017.
• 2nd Rank in M.S. General Surgery University exams, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 2012.
   

Languages Known

English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada

Fellowship/Membership

• Member- Liver Transplant Society of India

Past Positions

• OCT 2024 to oct 2025: Senior Consultant, Institute of Liver Sciences, Aig Hospitals, Hyderabad
• NOV 2024: Clinical observership in Liver Transplant Surgery, Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea, for 2 weeks
• SEPT 2018 to OCT 2024: Consultant in the Institute of Liver Sciences, AIG Hospitals, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
• OCT 15th 2018 to NOV 23rd 2018: Clinical Observer in Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK. 
• JUL 2015 to JUL 2018: M.Ch course in Hepatopancreato biliary surgery and Liver transplantation in the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi.
• NOV 2013 to JAN 2015: Assistant Professor in the Department of General Surgery at M. S. Ramaiah Medical college and teaching hospital, Bangalore.
• DEC 2012 to NOV 2013: Senior resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, ESIC- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Science and Research, Bangalore.
• MAY 2009 to MAY 2012: Postgraduate course in General Surgery, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli, Karnataka.