Dr Yogesh Agarwala

EDUCATION

• Dr.Yogesh Agarwal is graduate (1983) and a postgraduate (1987) from J.N.Medical College , Aligarh. Thereafter he worked as a registrar at same hospital and later at Lady Hardinge Medical College , New Delhi.
• In 1991 1992 he underwent an extensive training in Laparoscopic Surgery at Singapore and Japan. He did a fellowship in Minimal Invasive Surgery from Kieo University , Tokyo Japan.
• He had an opportunity to work with famous surgeons in United States of America Dr.Michael Gagner ( Bariatric Surgery Observership ) and Dr.Barry Salky at Mt.Sinai Medical Centre , New York especially in Laparoscopic surgery for GERD and Morbid Obesity.
• Since 1993 he is into active surgical practice. Now his main interest and focus area is Minimal Invasive surgery.
• He is a member of a number of surgical associations both nationally and internationally. He is the founder member of Gasless International an organization of MIS surgeons based in Japan.
• He is presently secretary of East Delhi Surgeons Forum.
• He has been an invited faculty in over a hundred conferences and workshops on Laparoscopic Surgery.
• He is on the faculty of ETHICON INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL EDUCATION at Delhi for Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery training. He has over a dozen papers and publications in national and international journals. He has trained 38 surgeons in the art and science of minimal access surgery.
• Have developed a very active and structured Bariatric Surgery Programme at group hospitals in Delhi & NCR . Recently organized a national conference on Metabolic Surgery for Diabetes and Morbid Obesity which was attended by over 300 delegates .
• Presently he is working as a Head Department of Surgery , Minimal Access Surgery & Bariatric Surgery Centre at Fortis Hospital.