Dr. Pradeep Chowbey is a world-renowned pioneering Laparoscopic Surgeon. With over 45 years of surgical experience, he has trained more than 20,000 surgeons from around the world in minimally invasive surgeries. He is one of the first to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy in North India and the first to perform MAFT (Minimally Invasive Fistula Technology) in the Asia Pacific Region. He has graphed his career with singular determination to develop, evaluate, and propagate Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery in India, and the Asian subcontinent.
His Institute at Max Healthcare was the first to receive the Center of excellence accreditations in India for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Hernia Surgery by Surgical Review Corporation, USA (2011-2014)
With over 98,300 surgeries to his credit, he featured in the Guinness Book of Records 1997 and Limca Book of Records 2000 – 2020 (consecutive twenty years) as the first Endoscopic surgeon performing most number of minimal access surgeries.He has authored more than 300 original scientific papers in international and national indexed journals and contributed chapters for various text/reference books, including the prestigious publications like Springer, Jaypee, Elsevier.
Books published
1. Endoscopic repair of abdominal wall hernia 2nd edition
Byword Viva publishers’ Pvt. Ltd
Editor: Dr. Pradeep Chowbey
2. Surgical repair of abdominal wall hernias- APHS initiative
Publisher: Springer
3. Handbook of Bariatric surgery
Publisher: Springer
He has published several national and international textbooks as the Chief Editor which include
International Silver Books
1.Single-port laparoscopic Cholecystectomy – using X-cone and reusable hand instruments
Status: Published
2. Visually assisted anal fistula treatment (VAAFT)