Dr. Deepak Govil

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Specialty: General Medicine/ Surgery

Hospital: Apollo Indraprastha

Lower Gastrointestinal haemorrhage” Govil D, Sahni P. In ‘G.I. Surgery Annual’, Volume 1, 1994, “ed Dr TK Chattopadhyay. Indian association of surgical gastroenterology: 93-103.

• “Surgery in jaundiced patients” Govil D. In Jaundice, 2004, ed Dr RK Tandon, SK Acharya

• Chapter on “Complications of Chronic pancreatitis” in Book on Proceedings of the DDF conference held on Chronic pancreatitis

• Written a chapter on “Familial adenomatous polyposis” in GI Surgery Annual, 2005

• Written chapter on Cancer pancreas and sent for publication in Tropical Gastroenterology textbook being edited by Prof BN Tandon

• Written chapter on Hydatid disease in Book titled ‘Handbook for Surgical Gastroenterology’ being written by Dr SanjivHaribhakti, Ahmedabad

• Written a chapter on NCPF in a book being edited by Dr Rajan Choudhry at AFMC, Pune

• Edited a book on “comprehensive laparoscopic surgery” along with other members of the Department for the conference and fellowship course of Laparoscopic Surgery in March’07

• Written a chapter on “ How to manage a bile duct injury” in a book on questions and answers in GE by Dr Ajay Kr and Dr Manav

• Fellowships / Memberships:

During the course of PhD (GI Surgery) at the Department of Liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery, AIIMS: Managed both In and Outpatients coming to the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Worked as a Senior Resident in the Department for 3 years.

• As Assistant Professor Surgery at GTB Hospital, New Delhi: Independently managed patients with Gastrointestinal surgery problems, performed major GI Surgical operations

• At the Department of GI Surgery, PSRI, New Delhi: I have established the Department of GI Surgery at this hospital. I have performed at approx. 1000 operations related to liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery including Laparoscopic surgery.

• At the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi: The Department is an active GI surgical unit dealing with complicated GI Surgical cases.

Major Gastrointestinal Surgical procedures: Some of the major GI procedures performed are:

• ASI (Association of Surgeons of India)

• Surgery for portal hypertension

• Splenectomy and Lieno-renal shunts

• Ileo-anal anastomosis with a pouch for Ulcerative colitis

• Esophageal resection with Gastric pull up

• Whipple’s Pancreato-duodenectomy

• Hepaticojejunostomy for biliary strictures and benign and malignant obstructive jaundice

• Surgery for Surgical obstructive jaundice

• Surgery for pancreatic diseases- Acute & Chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic malignanciesSurgery for Upper and Lower GI haemorrhage

• GI malignancies – Oesophageal, Gastric, colonic, rectal cancers

• Laparoscopic surgeries

• Actively participating in the living related liver transplants being done at our hospital since 15/9/06. Participated in transplants along with the present team.

• Association of Surgeons of India

• Delhi chapter of the Association of Surgeons of India

• Indian Society of Gastroenterology

• Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology

• Indian Association of endoscopic Gastro surgeons of India

• South Delhi branch of the Indian Medical Association

• Elected as the executive council member of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology in the national conference held at Kochi,2004 for 2 years

• Served as the Convenor of the “Delhi GI Surgeons club” organizing clinical meetings regularly in different departments of surgical Gastroenterology in Delhi. I was the convener since 1999 till 2008.

Awards and Achievements:

Received President’s appreciation award at IMA South Delhi annual convention in Jan’09

• Was Secretary of the Consultant forum of Apollo hospital – till March’09 – organized a lot of activities in the forum