M.B.B.S., M.S.
35+ years
Dr. Amit Maydeo, the Chairman of the Institute of Gastrosciences at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, has been the past President of the Society of GI Endoscopy of India (SGEI). He was the first to introduce third-space endoscopy in India including procedures, such as POEM, STER, and ARMS in 2012. Dr. Maydeo also launched India’s first Bariatric Endoscopy Programme in 2018.
Dr. Maydeo has published 91 papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has written chapters in 9 textbooks on GI Endoscopy and related topics. He is on the international Editorial Board of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIE) and is a Co-Editor for the Endoscopy International Open journal. On multiple occasions—over the past several years—GIE has recognised Dr. Maydeo as an “outstanding reviewer.”
Dr. Maydeo has served as a Visiting Faculty for more than 200 endoscopy workshops all over the world and has conducted 22 LIVE international endoscopy workshops in Mumbai over the past 25 years.
Dr. Maydeo received the Padma Shri Award from the President of India in 2013 for his outstanding contribution to the field of medicine and gastroenterology. He has also won awards in the 1st Endoscopy World Cup held in Chicago during the Digestive Disease Week (DDW). He was later selected as a jury member for the Endoscopy World Cup during DDW 2016.
Dr. Maydeo is an avid teacher and runs a popular endoscopy training institute called the Endoscopy Gurukul, where aspiring young endoscopists from India and abroad are taught basic as well as advanced GI endoscopic procedures.
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