Dr. Ravichand C. Siddachari

About Doctor DR. RAVICHAND C. SIDDACHARI

• Dr. Ravichand C. Siddachari is a Chief of Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery and he has done about 80-100 Whipples, 150+ liver resections and 60-70 liver transplants are performed annually.
• He is working as a  Consultant in Chief of Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery at KIMS
  Hospital,Hyderabad
• His specialization includes Chief of Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery
• He completed 3 years of the comprehensive surgical oncology residency programme and a 1-year fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology and 6 months in GI surgical Oncology.
• He was selected for the post of Clinical Fellow in upper GI and HPB Surgery at Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland and completed 3 years as Clinical Fellow.
• He then moved to HPB, Liver transplantation unit in Dublin and completed 2 years as Registrar and one year as research registrar and earned MCh. St.Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin is the national centre for HPB and Liver transplantation.
• In Jan 2013 joined Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India as consultant GI/HPB and Liver transplant surgeon. Apollo Hospital, Delhi has one of the world’s largest living-related liver transplantation programmes performing more than 300 liver transplants per year. In the year 2013, we performed 306 liver transplants and in the year 2014, 356 transplants.
• He done Diploma in Minimally invasive surgery at the prestigious IRCAD Institute at Strasbourg, France
• He done Diploma in Neuroendocrine diseases at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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• He is European Board Certified Surgical Oncologist Visiting Fellow, Kurume University, Japan 
• He published Laryngeal amyloidosis.Journal of Otolaryngology. 2005 Feb; 34(1):60-3.
• He published Management of renal cell carcinoma with solitary metastasis World J Surg Oncol. 2005 Jul; 20;3:48.
• He published Laparoscopic surgery for malignancy- a review article- Bombay Hospital Journal, 2005 Oct; 47:359-361
• He published D2 Lymphadenectomy for Gastric cancer in Tata Memorial Hospital: Indian data can now be incorporated in future international trials. Accepted for publication in “Digestive Surgery” ( 2006)
• He published Gastro-entero-pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A chapter in Handbook on Evidence-Based Medicine of Endocrine Tumors, Published by Tata Memorial Hospital, Feb 2006.
• He published Ectopic Thyroid Cancer. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 Apr;13(2):122-4.
• He published Post-operative deep vein thrombosis in patients with colorectal cancer: Indian J Gastroenterol 2008 Mar-Apr; 27: 71-73
• He published Elective neck dissection for the management of the N0 neck in early cancer of the oral tongue: the need for a randomized controlled trial. Head Neck. 2009 May;31(5):618-24
• He published CD141+ myeloid dendritic cells are enriched in healthy human liver. Kelly A, Fahey R, Fletcher JM, Keogh C, Carroll AG, Siddachari R, Geoghegan J, Hegarty JE, Ryan EJ, O'Farrelly C.J Hepatol. 2013 Aug 19. DOI:PII: S0168- 8278(13)00592-8. 10.1016/j.jhep.2013.08.007. [Epub ahead of print]
• He published Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by liver transplantation for unresectable cholangiocarcinoma: a single-centre national experience. Duignan S, Maguire D, Ravichand CS, Geoghegan J, Hoti E, Fennelly D, Armstrong J, Rock K, Mohan H, Traynor O.HPB (Oxford). 2013 Apr 18. DOI: 10.1111/hpb.12082.