Associate Professor Krishnakumar Madhavan

Head/Senior Consultant
Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Department of Surgery
National University Hospital, Singapore

Prof. Krishnakumar Madhavan - Liver Transplant

Associate Professor Krishnakumar Madhavan joined the Department of Surgery as an Associate Professor in Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore. He is also Head and Senior Consultant of Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Director, Liver Transplant Programme, National University Hospital.

After initial schooling and undergraduate medical education in India, A/Prof Madhavan did his MS in General Surgery at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research. After doing the FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, he went for further Higher Surgical Training in the UK and after successfully completing this training, was appointed in 1996, a Consultant General and Transplant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. After 11 years in that post, he has come to Singapore to join the NUS/NUH.

In addition to all aspects of liver transplantation , he has extensive experience in kidney and pancreatic transplantation and also the whole spectrum of benign and malignant hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery . He was also deeply involved in surgical training over the years and till recently was the Deputy chair of the surgical training committee for the South east of Scotland and tutor and convener for the Basic Surgical skills course of the RCSEd . He has also been an examiner for the FRCS , AFRCS and MRCS exams and recently has joined the panel of examiners for the exit FRCS examination (intercollegiate) .

His current research interests include the role of chemoembolisation in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma, management of cholangiocarcinoma, role of portocaval shunting in Piggy-back liver transplants, various aspects of live donor liver transplantation and saphenovenous peritoneal shunting in intractable ascites due to cirrhosis of liver. He is a co-author of many papers pertaining to his field of interest.

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