Dr A K Kriplani
M.Ch (GI surgery), AIIMS, New Delhi
M.S. (Surgery), AIIMS, New Delhi
MBBS, AIIMS, New Delhi
Dr A.K.Kriplani is a nationally recognized leader in the
field of laparoscopic and gastrointestinal surgery. He is
amongst the first surgeons who not only introduced laparoscopic
surgery to the Indian sob-continent but also mastered it and
took it to advanced levels.
He is the first in the country to perform laparoscopic adrenalectomy,
laparoscopic splenectomy and laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
for renal transplant with extensive experience in laparoscopic
gastrointestinal surgery including laparoscopic anti-reflux
procedure, gastric and esophageal surgery and colonic resections.
Dr Kriplani has been the principal investigator for numerous
research projects. He has published and co-authored more than
70 scientific research papers in international and national
journals and chapters in books and is one of the country's
and world's leading laparoscopic surgeon.
He has been invited extensively all over the country and
internationally for delivering guest lectures and demonstration
of live laparoscopic surgeries in teaching sessions and has
been invited faculty for more than 120 workshops / guest lectures
/ key-note addresses etc.
He has received may honors and awards for his work in the
field of laparoscopic surgery. He is serving his second term
as an executive member of the Indian Association of Gastro-intestinal
Endo Surgeons, the national apex body of the laparoscopic
surgeons of the country.
Dr Kriplani received his medical degree in 1977and his Masters
in Surgery in 1981. He then joined as surgical registrar in
the department of surgery, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi which is the most premier medical institute
in the country, On completing his residency, he was appointed
as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in this premier Institute
and then rose to become Associate Professor and then Additional
Professor within 5 years because of his extensive contributions
in the development of advanced laparoscopic surgery.
He was invited to join the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in
1996. Dr Kriplani has trained hundreds of surgeons in laparoscopic
surgery and he is a teacher in Ethicon Endosurgery Institute
since its inception.
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