Gastroenterology & GI Endoscopy

Sameer Gaggar

Dr. Sameer Gaggar

Additional Director - Gastrointestinal Medicine
Department
Gastroenterology & GI Endoscopy
Qualification

M.B.B.S., M.D. (Medicine), MRCP (Internal Medicine), MRCP (Gastroenterology), CCT (Gastroenterology), FRCP

Experience

21+ years

Bio:

Dr. Sameer Gaggar is the Additional Director of Gastrointestinal Medicine at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital. Among other places in the UK, Dr. Gaggar also trained at the Liver Transplant Centre at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Dr. Gaggar holds a JAG accreditation for endoscopic procedures. He is also an International Examiner for MRCP PACES (UK).

An experienced Therapeutic Endoscopist, Dr. Gaggar is skilled in advanced procedures, such as polypectomies, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), GI stenting, percutaneous endoscopic gastronomies (PEGs), balloon dilatation, variceal banding and managing GI bleeding. He also performs urea breath test, hydrogen breath test, high-resolution oesophageal and anorectal manometry, and 24-hour pH studies.

Dr. Gaggar has several international and national publications, abstracts, and audits to his name. 

Awards:

  • Top Doctor Award (Outlook Health; 2023)
  • Top Doctor Award (India Today Health; 2022)
  • First Prize in the Annual Medicine (M.D. Medicine) Thesis Competition

Areas of Expertise & Special Interest:

  • Acute liver failure
  • Chronic liver diseases (alcoholic liver disease; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; hepatitis B & C and other viral hepatitis; autoimmune hepatitis; haemochromatosis; primary biliary cholangitis)
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Portal hypertension
  • Nutrition
  • Pancreatobiliary disorders
  • Therapeutic endoscopy
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