Muffazal Lakdawala is an Indian surgeon and founder of Digestive Health Institute by Dr Muffi, Mumbai, which is the first Indian Centre for Excellence in Bariatric Surgery. He is the chairman of Institute of Minimal Invasive Surgical Sciences & Research Centre,

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, Mumbai and the president of IFSO- Asia Pacific chapter. He was awarded the first international centre of excellence designation by the US based SRC (Surgical Review Corporation)

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He has performed bariatric surgeries on several famous personalities, including the BJP President

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, NCP's Nawab Malik, former State Cabinet minister Nitin Raut, BJP's Vinod Tawde and BJP leader

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Personal life

Lakdawala was born and brought up in a

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family in

. He passed MBBS from Grant Medical College. Then he pursued his Masters in Surgery (M.S.) from B.Y.L. Nair Hospital and completed 3 years of residency programme in general surgery. He lives in

with his wife, Priyanka Kaul. He has two children from his first marriage to Aditi Gowitrikar.

Career

Lakdawala underwent training in

Bariatric Surgery Bariatric surgery (also known as metabolic surgery or weight loss surgery) is a surgical procedure used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut ho ...

with Raul Rosenthal,

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, United States, 2006. He was also trained at the Unit of Gastro Surgery, with Piet Pattyn from the University of Ghent Hospital, Belgium, 2005 and also underwent Training in Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery with Prof. Seon Hahn Kim, Seoul,

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, 2004. He has also been a lecturer at B.Y.L.Nair Hospital- a teaching hospital in Mumbai. He is one of the only Indian surgeon to have demonstrated live surgery in almost every Asian country. Till date he has performed the largest number of single incision sleeve gastrectomy surgeries in the world. He is the first surgeon to conduct laparoscopic gastric bypass in India. He also successfully operated on a 30-year-old woman with unexplained body aches, to find a live worm inside her bile duct. Lakdawala has performed sleeve gastrectomy surgery on Jayesh Malukani, one of the youngest Indian patient who is a 17-year-old boy. He has performed

bariatric surgery Bariatric surgery (also known as metabolic surgery or weight loss surgery) is a surgical procedure used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut ho ...

on the heaviest man in

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who weighed all of 285 kg (627 pounds) in Tianjen, China. He also successfully operated on Eman Ahmed, an Egyptian woman considered to be the heaviest in the world.

Positions

*Chairman, Position Statement Committee, International Federation of the Society of

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and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) *Board Member, AETF - Asia Endosurgery Task Force (AETF) *Member, Asia Pacific Metabolic and

Society (APMBSS) *Director, Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery (ACMOMS) *Head, Dept. of Minimal Access and

*Head, Expert Advisory Board for the Men’s Health Magazine

Awards

He was awarded 'Humanitarian of the year' by the All India Human Rights Association in 2007 and a Silver Medal at Shirin Mehtaji Oration for ‘Obstructive

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’ in 1996. He was also awarded as the Gold Medallist in Anatomy at First Year

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References

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