Dr. Peethambaran M S

OP Timing:

Education / Qualifications:

• DNB Surgical Gastroenterology- National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. Passed in April 2012. Undergone training in Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Center, Lake Area, Melur Road, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 
• M.S General Surgery- from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University; passed in April 2006. 
• DNB General Surgery-National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. Passed in Sept 2006.
• Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery by the Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India May 2006 
• M.B.B.S- Passed from Calicut Medical College in June 2001.

Experience:

• Working Presently as Senior Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist in Avitis Institute of Medical Sciences, Palakkad, Kerala. From Dec 2018 
• Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist in Paalana Institute of Medical Sciences, Palakkad, Kerala. October 2012 to Nov 2018 
• Senior Registrar in the Department of Gastroenterology Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Center, Lake Area, Melur Road, Madurai, Tamil Nadu from April 2012 to August 2012 
• DNB Training in Surgical Gastroenterology Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Center, Lake Area, Melur Road, Madurai, Tamil Nadu from Feb 2009 to Feb 2012 
• Consultant Surgeon Department of General & Laparoscopic Surgery in Paalana Institute of Medical Sciences, a Multispeciality Mission hospital in Palakkad from March 2007 to Feb 2009 
• Department of Surgery CSI Mission Hospital Codaccal, Tirur, Kerala June 2006 to Feb 2007. 
• Junior Resident in the department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (April 2003-2006). 
• Experience as Resident Medical Officer, M K Haji Memorial Orphanage Hospital Tirurangadi Malappuram. September 2001- March 2003. 
• Internship (August 2000-01) - in Calicut Medical College.

Expertise:

• Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgeon and Laparoscopic Surgeon with special expertise in biliary, pancreatic, and advanced minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery.

Area of Interest:

• Clinical focus includes the surgical management of complex GI cancers and hepatopancreatobiliary diseases.

Publications:

• Totally Extraperitoneal Repair of Grynfeltt’s Hernia – Easy Solution for a Rare Problem.
• Accessory Spleen Mimicking an Intrahepatic Neoplasm: A Rare Case Report. Cureus 15(5): e39185. doi:10.7759/cureus.39185 
• Single-incision laparoscopic splenectomy. Journal of Minimal Access Surgery 7(1):p 65-67, Jan–Mar 2011. 
• Traumatic ileal perforation in post-traumatic ventral hernia: adding insult to injury. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2007 Dec;17(12):756-7. 
• Urethral catheter double knotting: a case report Surgery UPASI Journal vol 15, No. 20; Nov 2005: page 41-42

Memberships:

• Member, Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG)
• Member, Indian Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA – India Chapter)
• Member, Association of Surgeons of Gastroenterologists and GI Oncosurgeons of Kerala (ASGK)
• Member, Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI)
• Fellow, Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (FMAS)
• Member, Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons (IAGES)
• Member, Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of India (SELSI)
• Member, Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
• Member, Indian Medical Association (IMA)

Awards: 

• Winner Radiology shotgun quiz during the Annual state conference of Association of Surgical Gastroenterologists of Kerala 2023 
• Holding the record of successfully removing the Largest Mesenteric tumour 
• Winner of Annual Surgical Gastroenterology state level Quiz in 2020, 2015 and 2013
• Winner of the ANNUAL NATIONAL SURGERY QUIZ COMPETITION held in LXV annual conference of the Association of Surgeons of India and SAARC Surgeons Congress Jaipur, December 2005
• Winner of the Quiz on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation conducted in JNMCH Aligarh Oct-2004