Dr. Mahesh Gopasetty

Dr. Mahesh Gopasetty is a renowned Transplant Surgeon with over 15 years of rich experience in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Surgery. He completed his under graduation and post-graduation from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, and was awarded a Gold Medal for being the best outgoing post-graduate student in the department of general surgery in the year 2002. He has worked in the UK for three years where he also obtained his MRCS in the year 2007. He then moved on to the USA to pursue training in Transplantation with a Fellowship in Abdominal Multi-organ Transplantation from The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston (2008). In 2009, he moved to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Children芒聙聶s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) to train in Paediatric Multi-visceral Transplantation. Prior to joining Fortis, he has worked in Apollo Hospitals, BG Road from 2010 and has been leading the Liver Transplant Program for the last three years His key areas of interest and expertise include Living Donor and Cadaveric Donor Liver Transplants, Paediatric Liver Transplants, Small Intestine Transplants; Complex Liver Transplants; Portal Hypertension Surgeries; Kidney & Pancreas Transplants, and Complex Pancreatic Surgeries. Dr. Mahesh holds a rich experience of more than 1600 Liver Transplants (Adult & Paediatric) and more than 100 Small intestine Transplants.

Awards 2006 - “Swiss TB Award” – Tueller C, Chhajed PN et al. Value of smear and PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage in culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis, 2005 “Interventional Pulmonology – Best Presentation Award”, European Respiratory Society, Denmark. “Interventional bronchoscopy permits parenchyma sparing surgery in lung cancer”, 2005 “Best Paper Award”. Swiss Pulmonology Meeting. Azzola A, Havrik A, Chhajed PN, et al. ‘In vitro Proliferation of human fibroblast in IPF & its inhibition by immunosuppressive drugs’, 2004 “Best Paper Award”: JAPI. Shah, Singal, Chhajed et al. ‘Bronchoscopic closure of BPF using gelfoam’, 2004 “CHARAK Award” for Achievements in Medical Research, Red Swastik Society of India, Mumbai, 2000 “Clinical Prize for Research Excellence”, 10th Annual St Vincent's Research Symposium, Sydney, 1996 “Ranked second” at the University of Bombay for M.D, 1996 “Ranked first”, College of Physicians & Surgeons (CPS), Mumbai – PG examination for DETRD Accolades: Dr. Chhajed has published more than 150 scientific publications in indexed journals. He is regularly invited to as faculty in International and National meetings