Dr Hitesh Chavda is one of the top surgical gastroenterologist and liver surgeon of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He has more then 20-years of experience in the field of gastrointestinal surgery. He is an enthusiastic and energetic surgeon with expert knowledge and healing hands. Dr Chavda graduated from the Medical Faculty, University of Gujarat in 1993 & completed his residency training from the same University and obtained his Masters degree (MS) with honours in 1997. He was trained at Department of Surgery at Civil Hospital and BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad.

He subsequently completed is advance surgical training and obtained his surgical fellowship (FRCS) from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK in 1999. After his return from UK, in 2000 he was  appointed as Assistant Professor at V S General Hospital and NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad. He Joined Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad in 2002 as a Consultant GI Surgeon. Successively he obtained advanced training in liver surgery in Paris, France and obtained further training in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery from Heidelberg, Germany in 2004.

In 2007, he completed one-year fellowship training in Liver Surgery & Transplantation at the Asian Center For Liver Disease and Transplantation, Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore under the directorship of Dr K C Tan. He also visited Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, South Korea under the prestigious International Scholars Program for Living Donor Liver Transplantation training. He has been the driving force to co-ordinate efforts to start a cadaveric liver transplantation in Gujarat and Ahmedabad in particular. Currently he is Chief of DNB Surgical Gastroenterology program at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad. He is considered one of the pioneers of liver surgery in Gujarat.

Dr Chavda is member of many scientific societies and has a special interest in surgical training and education of young surgeons. Since 2009 he is organizing “Liver Update” Conference every year to develop and spread the knowledge as well as the techniques of liver surgery. His research interests reflect the full range of clinical and surgical activity in his clinic, especially hepatobiliary surgery for cancers. In addition, he has given scientific presentations at national meetings and has been invited as a speaker/faculty in various conferences.

SPECIALIZATION

Surgical specialization is exclusively in digestive surgery and includes gastrointestinal cancer surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery, liver cancer surgery, pancreatic cancer surgery, gall bladder cancer surgery, bile duct cancer surgery, small and large intestine cancer surgery, rectal cancer surgery and hernia surgery. He is a renowned expert in liver cancer surgery. His main areas of interest are liver cancer, complex gastrointestinal surgeries and liver transplantation.