Muffazal Lakdawala is an Indian surgeon and founder of Digestive Health Institute by Dr Muffi, Mumbai, which is the first Indian Centre for Excellence in Bariatric Surgery. He is the chairman of Institute of Minimal Invasive Surgical Sciences & Research Centre, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai and the president of IFSO- Asia Pacific chapter.
Muffazal Lakdawala | |
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| Alma mater | Grant Medical College |
| Occupation | Laparoscopic / Obesity Surgeon |
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| Website | https://www.thedigestive.in/ |
He was awarded the first international centre of excellence designation by the US based SRC (Surgical Review Corporation)[1] Mumbai He has performed bariatric surgeries on several famous personalities, including the BJP President Nitin Gadkari,[2][3] NCP's Nawab Malik, former State Cabinet minister Nitin Raut, BJP's Vinod Tawde and BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu.[4][5]
Personal life
editLakdawala was born and brought up in a Dawoodi Bohra family in Mumbai. He passed MBBS from Grant Medical College. Then he pursued his Masters in Surgery (M.S.) from B.Y.L. Nair Hospital and completed 3 years of residency programme in general surgery.[6]
He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Priyanka Kaul. He has two children from his first marriage to Aditi Gowitrikar.[7]
Career
editLakdawala underwent training in Bariatric Surgery with Raul Rosenthal, Cleveland Clinic, United States, 2006. He was also trained at the Unit of Gastro Surgery, with Piet Pattyn from the University of Ghent Hospital, Belgium, 2005 and also underwent Training in Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery with Prof. Seon Hahn Kim, Seoul, Korea, 2004. He has also been a lecturer at B.Y.L.Nair Hospital- a teaching hospital in Mumbai.[8]
He is one of the only Indian surgeon to have demonstrated live surgery in almost every Asian country. Till date he has performed the largest number of single incision sleeve gastrectomy surgeries in the world. He is the first surgeon to conduct laparoscopic gastric bypass in India. He also successfully operated on a 30-year-old woman with unexplained body aches, to find a live worm inside her bile duct.[9]
Lakdawala has performed sleeve gastrectomy surgery on Jayesh Malukani, one of the youngest Indian patient who is a 17-year-old boy.[10][11][12] He has performed bariatric surgery on the heaviest man in Asia who weighed all of 285 kg (627 pounds) in Tianjen, China.[13] He also successfully operated on Eman Ahmed, an Egyptian woman considered to be the heaviest in the world.[14]
Positions
edit- Chairman, Position Statement Committee, International Federation of the Society of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)
- Board Member, AETF - Asia Endosurgery Task Force (AETF)[15]
- Member, Asia Pacific Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Society (APMBSS)[16]
- Director, Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery (ACMOMS)[17]
- Head, Dept. of Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai[18]
- Head, Expert Advisory Board for the Men’s Health Magazine[19]
Awards
editHe was awarded 'Humanitarian of the year' by the All India Human Rights Association in 2007[20] and a Silver Medal at Shirin Mehtaji Oration for ‘Obstructive Jaundice’ in 1996.[20] He was also awarded as the Gold Medallist in Anatomy at First Year MBBS.[20]
References
edit- ^ "First Indian Hospital and Surgeons Awarded International Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery Designation". RedOrbit. 30 March 2011.
- ^ Rajaram, Sowmya (18 September 2011). "'We've operated on half the cabinet'". MiD DAY.
- ^ Paul, Rito (2 October 2011). "Bariatric surgery: The poor man's burden". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Now, BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu sheds his 'heavyweight' tag". Hindustan Times. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Everything you wanted to know about Bariatric Surgery". Digestive Health Institute. 30 May 2018.
- ^ "Studies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2012.
- ^ Singh, Mauli (8 March 2011). "Aditi Gowitrikar's ex weds again". Mid-Day.
- ^ "Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, M.S." Centre for Obesity Support.
- ^ "Half-foot-long worm found inside patient". Mumbai Mirror. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Youngest Patient Undergoes Gastrectomy Surgery by Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala". Archived from the original on 25 April 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Masand, Pratibha (25 October 2009). "Teenager takes right steps to weight loss". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014.
- ^ Masand, Pratibha (25 October 2009). "Urban and overweight". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014.
- ^ "Surgeries Performed". digimed.co.
- ^ "India doctor to operate on '500kg' Egyptian woman". BBC News. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Board Members". aetf-endosurg.com. Asia Endosurgey Task Force.
- ^ "Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, Founder, Digestive Health Institute by Dr Muffi". Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery.
- ^ "Obese Asian women prefer surgery". Deccan Herald. 7 October 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Head of Department at Saifee Hospital". PRWeb. Archived from the original on 28 August 2011.
- ^ "Head at the Men's Magazine". menshealth.intoday.in.
- ^ a b c "Awards received". LinkedIn.[self-published source]