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Dr. Venugopal B

Hon. Senior Consultant - Surgical Gastroenterology

Dr. Venugopal B
Department Surgical Gastroenterology
Education MS (General Surgery), MCh (Gastrointestinal Surgery), FRCS
Languages
  • Malayalam
  • English

Dr. Venugopal had his MBBS in 1989 from Medical College, Trivandrum. Dr. Venugopal B took his MS (General Surgery) from the same institution in 1992 as the best outgoing postgraduate student. Subsequently, Dr. Venugopal B took his MCh (GI Surgery) in 1998 from Medical College, Trivandrum, in its first batch. Thereafter, Dr. Venugopal B worked in tertiary GI surgery centres like Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, and PVC Memorial Hospital, Kochi, before going abroad for further training.

In the UK, Dr. Venugopal B had 2 years of fellowship training in multi-organ (liver, kidney, pancreas) transplantation at the prestigious Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Dr. Venugopal B also had a short stint at King’s College Hospital, London, the largest liver transplant unit in Europe. Dr. Venugopal B had further training in liver donor transplantation from Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (the largest LDLT centre in the world) and Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.

He was working as Chief Liver Transplant Surgeon at Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi. Dr. Venugopal has vast experience in surgical conditions of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas. Dr. Venugopal B also has vast experience in managing surgical conditions of the upper and lower GI tract. Dr. Venugopal B also performs advanced laparoscopic surgeries of the hepatobiliary tract and pancreas.