Dr Shanker Pasupathy

Dr Shanker has a special interest in keyhole surgery for obesity (bariatric surgery) and metabolic disorders, gastro-esophageal conditions including cancer and acid reflux, gallbladder and abdominal hernia. He was formerly the Director of the LIFE Centre and Senior Consultant and Chief of the Metabolic-Bariatric Surgery service at the Department of Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery, SGH
Dr Shanker is the current president of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of Singapore (OMSSS) and a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). He is the immediate past president of the Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (Singapore Chapter)
After basic surgical training in Singapore, Dr Shanker underwent higher training in gastro-intestinal and vascular surgery in the UK, France and Germany. He completed a one year fellowship in “Advanced laparoscopy and robotic surgery” at the IRCAD (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l’Appareil Digestif) and Université Louis-Pasteur Strasbourg 1.

National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Academic Year 2011/2012
Best free paper award for “Bariatric Surgery for the Super-Obese” presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Conference, Singapore, 22 Oct 2010
John Farndon Prize* for “Effects of warm-up on exercise capacity, platelet activation and platelet-leucocyte aggregation in patients with claudication. Pasupathy S, Naseem KM, Homer-Vanniasinkam S. Br J Surg. 2005 Jan.92(1):50-5.” *best paper submitted to the British Journal of Surgery from the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) Annual Meeting 2004

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