Dr. Aravind Ramkumar

Dr.Aravind Ramkumar is a renowned and one of the best Cancer Surgeon in India and serves as a Consultant in Surgical Oncology at Columbia Asia Hospitals, Bangalore. He completed his MBBS from Rajah Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai University, Chidambaram and has done immensely well throughout the course as he received over 10 awards during his course. Amongst that he was awarded the prestigious Dr. S G Rajarathinam award for the best outgoing student in overall performance in the state of Tamil Nadu. He also received the Pfizer Award for outstanding performance in the final examinations for the degree of MBBS conducted by Annamalai University.

After excelling in his graduation, Dr. Ramkumar did his Post Graduation in General Surgery from Railway Hospital, Chennai and won the Dr. B Ramamurthy Gold Medal for the Final Examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations. He also completed the course and examinations for the MRCS Edinburgh.

After completing his post-graduation, he further went on to do the Mch Surgical Oncology course in Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai and was awarded the Prof. M Snehalatha Endowment Gold Medal for best performance in the Mch examination conducted by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University in August 2007.

Dr. Ramkumar underwent the training in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at Cachar Cancer Institute, Assam and also undertook a six-month certified training in Thoracic Surgical Oncology at the prestigious Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Dr. Ramkumar did not stop there, and also undertaken courses in Microvascular Surgery, Head and Neck Reconstruction and  Minimal Access Surgery.

Since July 2014, he serves as a Consultant in Surgical Oncology at Columbia Asia Hospital, Bangalore as part of the Saptagiri Group for Specialty Surgery.

He has experience in most cancer surgeries and a special interest in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Cancer, Sentinel Node Biopsy, Peritonectomy, and HIPEC for advanced abdominal cancer, Multimodality Management of Esophageal cancer, and microvascular reconstruction.