Dr Neel Shetty

Dr Neel Shetty completed his MBBS from St John’s Medical College Bangalore in 1997 followed by DNB in Surgery from Manipal Hospital Bangalore. He has been working as a Senior Consultant in the Dept of Surgical Gastroenterology, Minimal Access and Bariatric surgery since 2011. He has 15+ years of experience in the management of complex GI surgical cases including advanced Laparoscopic surgery. He has publications in Indexed journals and apart from the academic schedule he has been on the organising committees for numerous local and national level conferences / workshops.

His special interests include Pancreatic diseases, Colorectal cancer and Advanced Laparoscopic surgery.

Dr Neel Shetty has a keen interest in Laparoscopic surgery and has actively participated in the development of “Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS)” since its initiation in Bangalore in 2009. He believes in multidisciplinary team work, personalised patient care, clear communication and maintaining the highest levels of quality and ethics in surgical practice to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Experience

15+ Years of Experience

• 2011 till date

Senior Consultant in the Dept of Surgical Gastroenterology, Minimal Access and Bariatric surgery in Gleneagles Global Hospital Bangalore

• 2009

Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Manipal Hospital Bangalore

• 2007

Department of Surgical Gastroenterology. Manipal Hospital Bangalore

• 2005

Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Manipal Hospital Bangalore

• 2001

Department of General Surgery Manipal Hospital Bangalore

• 1999

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore

Expertise

• Bariatric Surgery
• Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery
• Advanced Laparoscopic GI surgery

Achievements

• Best paper award in the Indian Chapter of the ICS 2010, Pune, for “Single Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy – Our experience”
• Assisted in the live operative workshop for Biliary tract surgery at the PSG Surgicon, February Coimbatore 2010.
• Member of the local organizing committee of the Indian chapter of IHPBA for a Single theme Conference on Pancreas, held in Bangalore in February 2009.
• Actively participated in the proceedings of the Bangalore Surgical Gastro group with interesting case capsule presentations.
• Best poster award ASI, Bangalore Chapter 2008.
• International Multicentre Clinical trial for intraabdominal infections -Tyger Study: Tigecycline vs Ceftriaxone (2006-2007). Co-Investigator

Publications

• Shetty N, Srikanth G, Prasad Babu TLVD, Sikora SS. A simple fundal traction suture in single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc (Peer review-in communication)
• Shetty N, Srikanth G, Prasad Babu TLVD, Sikora SS. ‘H’graft pancreaticoduodenal-caval shunt in a patient with extrahepatic portal vein obstruction with ectopic variceal bleeding who underwent prior modified siguira’s procedure. HPB (Peer review-in communication)
• Neel Shetty, G Srikanth, MD Wasim, A Sajjad. Single-incision laparoscopic Splenectomy with innovative gastric traction suture J Minim Access Surg. 2011 Jan-Mar; 7(1): 68–70. doi: 10.4103/0972-9941.72386.
• Srikanth G, Shetty N, Prasad Babu TLVD, Sikora SS. Laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy – a safe alternative ? Trop Gastroenterol 2009 Nov(suppl).
• Srikanth G, Shetty N, Prasad Babu TLVD, Sikora SS. Laparoscopic sleeve resection for non-cancerous gastric tumors. Tropical Gastroenterol 2009 Nov (suppl).
• Srikanth G, Shetty N, Prasad babu TLVD, Sikora SS. Fundal traction suture in single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous techniques. (Accepted for Publication)
• Srikanth G, Neel Shetty. Laparoscopic resection of giant liver hemangioma with the use of laparoscopic 4X Habib probe. (peer review)
• Srikanth G, Neel Shetty, Dubey D. Single incision laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy. (peer review)