Dr. D Madhu Srinivasan

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Profile Overview:

Dr Madhu Srinivasan is a GI, HPB and liver transplant surgeon with specialist training and experience at leading transplant centres in India and the United Kingdom. He leads the Department of GI, HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation at KIMS Hospital, Thrissur, where he is establishing a liver transplantation programme alongside comprehensive liver, pancreatic, biliary and GI surgical services. He completed his MCh in GI Surgery and liver transplantation at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, and holds the FRCS (General Surgery) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He trained in multi-organ retrieval, abdominal transplantation and HPB surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and later worked as an HPB, Liver Transplant and Organ Retrieval Surgeon at the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he led the Retrieval Edinburgh NORS team and was certified as a lead surgeon for normothermic regional perfusion. Between his UK appointments he served as Consultant in GI, HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation at Amrita Hospital, Kochi. His expertise spans living and deceased donor liver transplantation, liver, pancreatic and complex biliary surgery, and advanced laparoscopic and robotic GI (Gastro Intestinal) surgery. He is first author of a randomised clinical trial on liver graft reconstruction in the British Journal of Surgery and has received national awards for his research.

Qualifications & Education:

• FRCSEd (General Surgery) – Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• MCh Gastrointestinal Surgery – Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
• FMAS – Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery, Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India
• MS General Surgery – Government Kilpauk Medical College and Government Royapettah Hospital, Chennai
• MBBS – Government Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore

Registration Number: TCMC-69117

Areas of Expertise:

• Living donor and deceased donor liver transplantation
• Donor hepatectomy, including robotic donor hepatectomy
• Multi-organ retrieval, normothermic regional perfusion and machine perfusion of donor organs
• Liver resection for primary and secondary liver cancers
• Pancreatic surgery, including Whipple procedure and distal pancreatectomy Complex biliary surgery, including choledochal cyst excision and bile duct injury repair
• Colorectal and upper GI cancer surgery
• Advanced laparoscopic GI surgery and robotic HPB surgery
• Hernia and abdominal wall surgery
• Surgery for acute abdominal conditions, including appendicitis

Clinical Interests:

• Liver transplantation, donor safety and organ preservation 
• Hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers 
• Minimally invasive and robotic HPB surgery 
• Colorectal and gastrointestinal oncology & GI robotic Surgery
• Cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC in selected patients 
• General surgery, including gallstone disease, hernia and the acute abdomen 

Professional Experience:

• Director – GI, HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation – KIMS Hospital, Thrissur 
• HPB, Liver Transplant and Organ Retrieval Surgeon – Scottish Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
• Consultant, GI, HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation – Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi Senior Clinical Fellow, Organ Retrieval, Transplant and HPB Surgery – Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom 
• Consultant GI & General Surgeon – Madhu Surgical Clinic and Hospital, Erode 
• Assistant Professor, General Surgery – Saveetha Medical College, Chennai

Advanced Training & Certifications :

• Lead NRP (Normothermic Regional Perfusion) Surgeon Certification, United Kingdom 
• NHS Blood and Transplant NORS Abdominal Organ Retrieval certification, IMGSS-certified fellowship, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – Organ Retrieval, Transplant and HPB Surgery 
• Da Vinci robotic console surgeon certification Liver machine perfusion training – XVIVO Liver Assist (Freeman Hospital, Newcastle) and OrganOx metra HPB Fellowship – Mie University, Japan 
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) – Royal College of Surgeons of England 
• Course faculty – Medtronic Masterclasses in Liver and Colorectal Surgery, Amrita Hospital, Kochi 

Research & Publications :

• Middle hepatic vein reconstruction in adult living donor liver transplantation: a randomised clinical trial – British Journal of Surgery, 2021 (first author) Steroid-free immunosuppression with basiliximab induction in adult living donor liver transplantation – HPB, 2021 
• Synbiotics and infectious complications after living donor liver transplantation (PREPRO trial) – Journal of Hepato Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, 2022; Sustained-release versus twice-daily tacrolimus in adult living donor liver transplantation – HPB, 2024 
• FXR agonist in post-liver transplantation patients: a randomised study protocol – F1000Research, 2026 

Conference Presentations:

• ILTS Annual Congress, Houston, 2024 – Intermittent inflow occlusion in robotic donor hepatectomy: a randomised controlled trial (oral) 
• ILTS Annual Congress, Lisbon, 2018 – PTFE vs native portal vein for neo-middle hepatic vein reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation (poster) IHPBA Indian Chapter, Pune, 2018 – PTFE vs native portal vein for neo-MHV reconstruction in LDLT (oral) – National Best Oral Paper Award 
• IASGCON, JIPMER, Puducherry, 2017 – Donor hepatectomy: how close to the edge of the cliff are we? (oral) – Best Award Paper
• IFSO-APC, Goa, 2017 – Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (poster) 
• ASGKCON, Kollam, 2016 – Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (poster) 
• TANASICON, Thanjavur, 2012 – Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a case series (oral) 

Teaching & Leadership:

Lead retrieval surgeon for the Edinburgh and Cambridge NORS teams; course faculty and organiser for national liver and colorectal surgery masterclasses; postgraduate teaching, resident training and operative mentoring at Amrita. 

Registrations & Memberships:

• General Medical Council (GMC), United Kingdom
• Travancore-Cochin Council of Modern Medicine (Kerala Medical Council) Tamil Nadu Medical Council
• Fellow – Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd)
• Member – Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI)
• Full Life Member – Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
• Full Life Member – Indian Medical Association (IMA)