Shashank Shah

Shah completed his MBBS and MS at B. J. Medical College, Pune, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. He then started work as a general surgeon at KEM Hospital, Pune, before joining Poona Hospital and Research Centre, where he has been a general, laparoscopic and bariatric surgeon since 1995.[3] Shah has also practised oncosurgery since 1992, and laparoscopic surgery since 1998.[4] He received further training in laparoscopic surgery at the University of Erlangen in Germany in 2002.

In 2003, Shah was trained in bariatric surgery at the Gastro Obeso Center, Brazil, under Dr. Kelvin Higa in the United States, and at the University of Genoa, Italy under Dr. Nicola Scopinaro.

Shah performed bariatric surgery on D. Y. Patil in 2008;[5] on one of the youngest patients for bariatric surgery, a seven-year-old boy;[6] on the heaviest British person (310 kilograms (680 lb));[7] and on Asia's heaviest woman (300 kilograms (660 lb)) in 2016.[8]

In June 2018, Shah established the Obesity Prevention and Control Task Force of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), and became its chairman.[9]

Shah is a visiting faculty at the Institute for Research into Cancer of the Digestive System (IRCAD) in France,[10] and has been the head of the department and post-graduate teacher for Delhi National Board (DNB) general surgery since 2005. He is also a post-graduate teacher for minimal invasive surgery at Poona Hospital & Research Centre. He is a bariatric training faculty at the Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education (EISE) in Mumbai, and is the head of department for minimally invasive surgery fellowship at the Laparo Obeso Centre of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. Shah has been the course director for bariatric surgery training at the Center of Excellence for Minimal Access Surgery Training (CEMAST).[11] He also served on editorial board of the journals Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Research and Obesity Surgery.[12][13]

Shah has been the president of three Indian societies related to obesity: the All India Association for Advancing Research in Obesity (AIAARO), the Obesity Surgery Society Of India (OSSI), and International Excellence Federation, India Chapter (IEF).[14][15] He is the founder and scientific committee member of the online bariatric surgery academy, Barialink.[16]

In 2011, he performed a laparoscopic surgery for a large kidney tumour on Madhukarrao Chavan, the then State Animal Husbandry Minister.[17] His video for Thoracoscopic Thymectomy for Mysthenia Gravis was published in the SAGES video library in 2005.[18]

• 2008: IIT Innovation Award for metabolic surgery for type 2 diabetes in IIT innovations[19]
• 2016: Vivian Fonseca Scholar Award by the American Diabetes Association[20]
• 2017: Jaipal Singh Memorial Orator from the Association of Surgeons of India[21]

• Shah, Shashank S.; Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Poonam S. (17 August 2014). "Buttressing the Staple Line: A Randomized Comparison Between Staple-Line Reinforcement Versus No Reinforcement During Sleeve Gastrectomy". Obesity Surgery. 24 (12): 2014–2020. doi:10.1007/s11695-014-1374-z. PMC 4223405. PMID 25129485.
• Patil, Deepak P; Dhotre, Dhiraj P; Chavan, Sachin G; Sultan, Armiya; Jain, Dhawal S; Lanjekar, Vikram B; Gangawani, Jayshree; Shah, Poonam S; Todkar, Jayshree S; Shah, Shashank; Ranade, Dilip R; Patole, Milind S; Shouche, Yogesh S (16 August 2012). "Molecular analysis of gut microbiota in obesity among Indian individuals". Journal of Biosciences. 37 (4): 647–657. doi:10.1007/s12038-012-9244-0. PMID 22922190. S2CID 7529874.
• Rosenthal, Raul J. (January 2012). "International Sleeve Gastrectomy Expert Panel Consensus Statement: best practice guidelines based on experience of >12,000 cases". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 8 (1): 8–19. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2011.10.019. PMID 22248433.
• Shah, Shashank; Shah, Poonam; Todkar, Jayashree; Gagner, Michel; Sonar, S.; Solav, S. (March 2010). "Prospective controlled study of effect of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on small bowel transit time and gastric emptying half-time in morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 6 (2): 152–157. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.11.019. PMID 20189465.
• Shah, Shashank S.; Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Poonam S.; Cummings, David E. (July 2010). "Diabetes remission and reduced cardiovascular risk after gastric bypass in Asian Indians with body mass index <35 kg/m2". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 6 (4): 332–338. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.08.009. PMC 2888958. PMID 19846351.
• Shah, Poonam S.; Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Shashank S. (March 2010). "Effectiveness of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on glycemic control in obese Indians with type 2 diabetes mellitus". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 6 (2): 138–141. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.06.007. PMID 19733515.
• Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Shashank S.; Shah, Poonam S.; Gangwani, Jayashri (March 2010). "Long-term effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in morbidly obese subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 6 (2): 142–145. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.06.008. PMID 19733513.
• Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Shashank S.; Shah, Poonam S.; Ambagade, Sanjay P. (May 2009). "P-49: Cardio-vascular risk reduction after GBP for type 2 DM in patients with BMI < 35kg/m2". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 5 (3): S40–S41. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.03.117.
• Shah, Poonam S.; Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Shashank S. (May 2009). "PL-214: Behavior of type 2 diabetes mellitus in obese Indian patients submitted to sleeve gastrectomy". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 5 (3): S13–S14. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.03.042.
• Shah, Shashank S.; Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Poonam S. (May 2009). "PL-107: Should gastric bypass operation be done for type 2 diabetes in subjects with body mass index 20 - 34 kgs/m2?- an initial Indian experience". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 5 (3): S3. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.03.013.
• Todkar, Jayashree S.; Shah, Shashank S.; Shah, Poonam S.; Gangwani, Jayashri (May 2009). "P-84: Weight loss & evolution of co-morbidities & quality of life following sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Results at more than 3 years". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 5 (3): S52–S53. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.03.152.
• Shah, Shashank S.; Shah, Poonam S.; Todkar, Jayashree S.; Gagner, Michel (May 2009). "PL-105: Decreased small bowel transit time (SBTT) after sleeve gastrectomy (SG): Possible early ileal stimiluation as an additional proposed mechanism of action for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) resolution". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 5 (3): S2. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.03.011.
• Chandra, Abhijit; Dhar, Puneet; Dharap, Satish; Goel, Amitabh; Gupta, Rajesh; Hardikar, Jayprakash V.; Kapoor, Vinay K.; Mathur, Ashok K.; Modi, Pankaj; Narwaria, Mahendra; Ramesh, Mayakonda K.; Ramesh, Hariharan; Sastry, R.A.; Shah, Shashank; Virk, Satpalsingh; Sudheer, Otivilvayoth V.; Sreevathsa, Maddibande R.; Varshney, Subodh; Kochhar, Puja; Somasundaram, Sanjay; Desai, Chetan; Schou, Manjula (June 2008). "Cefoperazone-Sulbactam for Treatment of Intra-Abdominal Infections: Results from a Randomized, Parallel Group Study in India". Surgical Infections. 9 (3): 367–376. doi:10.1089/sur.2007.013. PMID 18570578.
• Chandra, Prasant; Phalgune, Deepak; Shah, Shashank (23 November 2015). "Comparison of the Clinical Outcome and Complications in Laparoscopic Hernia Repair of Inguinal Hernia With Mesh Fixation Using Fibrin Glue vs Tacker". Indian Journal of Surgery. 78 (6): 464–470. doi:10.1007/s12262-015-1410-9. PMC 5218932. PMID 28100943.