Sanjay Nagral is a surgeon who specialises in surgical gastroenterology, hepato-pancreatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. He is the Director of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai.
MS
FACS, Fellow of the American College of Surgery
CST, Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Sanjay Nagral completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the GS Medical College and worked at the KEM Hospital Mumbai until 1999 as Associate Professor of Surgery. He was awarded the Inlaks Foundation fellowship for higher studies in 1995. He did fellowships at the King's College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London from 1995 to 1997. He has special expertise in dealing with liver, biliary and pancreatic disorders including gall bladder stone disease, liver, biliary and pancreatic tumors and pancreatitis.
He has been a postgraduate teacher for two decades and supervised several theses. He currently leads a fellowship training program in Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery recognised by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences.
Sanjay was nominated to the executive council of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, an international organisation working on transplantation ethics, and was named its co-chair for the years 2021-24. He is the publisher and a member of the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Chairperson of the Forum for Medical Ethics.
He has around 140 publications including in indexed global and national journals, has edited two surgical textbooks and contributed six textbook chapters. In 2018 he co-edited the book, Healers or Predators? Health Care Corruption in India (Oxford University Press) with Dr. Samirun Nundy and Keshav Desiraju.
In addition to his academic work, Sanjay writes on issues related to public health, medical ethics and organ transplantation. He has contributed to several publications including The Times of India, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, The Hindu, Economic and Political Weekly, the British Medical Journal, Scroll and Wire. From 2020, Sanjay wrote a weekly column called “Second Opinion” in the Mumbai Mirror which now continues as a fortnightly in the Hindustan Times.
Academic CV
This CV lists all my published articles from peer reviewed indexed academic journals, available on Pubmed, or the National Library of Medicine database.