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

Brief Profile

Dr. P. Kumaraswamy is a Senior Consultant in Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery at CARE Hospitals, Banjara Hills, with over 16 years of experience. He specializes in living donor liver transplantation, complex hepatobiliary surgeries, minimally invasive hepatectomy, and pediatric liver transplantation. He brings extensive global expertise to advanced liver care. His research has been published in leading international journals, and he is a member of the Liver Transplant Society of India.

Fields of Experience

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

Research 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.