Dr. Arvind Kumar

MBBS, MS - Surgery, Fellowship
48 Years of Experience Awards: 2
Dr. Arvind Kumar belongs to the group of leading Robotic and Thoracic Surgeons all over the world. He is the one to pioneer Robotic Chest Surgery in India, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the year 2008. Presently he is working as Chairman - Chest Surgery, Chest Onco Surgery and Lung Transplantion at Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon. Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon, under his guidance has received the reputations of Asia's first hospital to deliver successful Robotic Vascular Surgery. He Started his medical journey with his MBBS degree at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1976, bagged the coveted best undergraduate of the year award in 1980 and Sir Hira Lal Gold Medal for being the best post-graduate which eventually followed his faculty career at the esteemed AIIMS, Delhi. Simultaneously in the early 90s, he picked up General Thoracic Surgery as his specialization and started doing surgeries in the same area. Over the years, Dr. Arvind has been awarded with various recognitions, including prestigious ICRETT (Cancer) Fellowship, and twice the coveted WHO Fellowship in 1999 and 2007 respectively. A seasoned doctor, his forte is to perform Open, Thoracoscopic as well as Robotic Chest Surgerery, and is also trained in Lung Transplantation which has not yet been performed at any center in India.
Dr. Arvind Kumar belongs to the group of leading Robotic and Thoracic Surgeons all over the world. He is the one to pioneer Robotic Chest Surgery i...
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Education

Medical School & Fellowships

MBBS - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1981

MS - Surgery - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1984

Fellowship - American College of Surgeons, Chicago

Fellowship - International College of Surgeons, USA

Fellowship - International Union Against Cancer, Geneva

Fellowship - Lung Transplant - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, 1995

Fellowship - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA, 1997

Fellowship - University of St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 1999

Fellowship - Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia, 2006

Memberships

Member - International College of Surgeons

Member - American College of Surgeons

Member - Indian Society of Oncology

Member - Delhi State Chapter, Association of Surgeons of India

Member - Association of Surgeons of India

Member - Delhi Medical Council

Member - National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Training

Training - Robotic Vascular Surgery - Na-Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Underwent Training - Advanced Robotic Surgery Skills - IRCAD, Strasbourg, France, 2012

Underwent Training - Robotic Chest Surgery - European association of Cardio Thoracic Surgery and Bern, Switzerland, 2008

Underwent Training - Robotic Surgery - International School of Robotic Surgery, Grosseto- Italy

Training - Lung Transplantation - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Clinical Achievements

Performed over 15,000 Thoracic (Chest) Surgeries including over 8000 surgeries by Minimally Invasive (Key-hole or VATS) and Robotic methods -

Experience

Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon

Chairman - Chest Surgery, Chest Onco Surgery and Lung Transplantion

Currently Working

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

Director - Thoracic and Robotic Surgery

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Professor - Thoracic and Robotic Surgery

2003 - 2012

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Faculty - Thoracic and Robotic Surgery

1988 - 2003

Awards and Achievements

“Khandelwal junior Oncology award for Scientific Excellence” for the paper entitled “Esophageal Carcinoma – How much to resect _ Is it a Non Issue”.

Dr. V. Ramalingaswamy prize” for being the “Best undergraduate of the year” in the Department of Community Medicine at AIIMS, New Delhi

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