Prof. Shailesh V. Shrikhande
Chief Executive, Tata Cancer Care Foundation, Mumbai
Professor Shailesh V. Shrikhande is Chief Executive at Tata Cancer Care Foundation, Mumbai, and Director, GI and HPB Cancer Surgery at Gleneagles Hospital, Parel, Mumbai. He is a Consultant Surgeon at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai and consults at Shrikhande Clinic, Mumbai. He is also appointed as Officer on Special Duty at Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai.
He is one of the few surgeons worldwide to have successfully performed over 1200 Whipples operations. He has conducted over 60 live Operative teaching demonstrations of pancreatic, gastric, colorectal and gall bladder cancer surgeries across India. He is the Past President of the Indian Chapter of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA). He is also the President of the Asia Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA) and also Secretary General Elect of the IHPBA. In recognition of his work on digestive cancer surgery in India, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014 (FRCS – Ad Eundem). In 2021, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of American Surgical Association (ASA). He is the first Indian cancer surgeon and only the second Indian ever to receive this prestigious honour in the last 144 years of the world oldest surgical association.
Education
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) , University of Mumbai, 1992
- Master of Surgery (MS), University of Mumbai, 1997
- Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2006
- Professor of Surgical Oncology, 2010
- FRCS, Ad Eundem in October 2014
Specialization
Surgical specialization is exclusively in digestive cancer surgery and includes stomach cancer surgery, pancreatic cancer surgery, liver cancer surgery, gall bladder cancer surgery, bile duct cancer surgery, small and large intestine cancer surgery including rectal cancer surgery.
Administrative Experience
- Leading the new TMC hospital building project, a state-of-the-art 550-bed futuristic cancer care facility in service of the nation. On 11th May, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India dedicated this project to the nation.
- Completed the project of Doctors’ & Nurses’ housing and Dharamshala for poor patients.
- Under his social initiative leadership, MHADA awarded 100 flats to poor patients and relatives.
- Driving Tata Memorial Centre’s Technical Collaboration with Goa Medical College, JITO Cancer Centre in Thane and JSW Sanjeevani Hospital, Dolvi in Raigad District.
- Awarded a full scholarship by Tata Trusts for healthcare administration at Harvard (2020-22).
