The Department offers cutting edge clinical care in pancreatic diseases, inflammatory bowel disorders and high-end research in these two areas.

Key features

• Routine and emergency care of patients with gastrointestinal, hepatic & pancreatic disorders and related systemic disorders
• Training of MD (General Medicine) students during their rotation
• Training of post-MD (General Medicine) candidates for placement in DM training (Gastroenterology), supervising MD (General Medicine) dissertations
• Direct involvement in various research projects
• Diagnostic upper gastrointestinal and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, Endoscopic variceal and non-variceal injection therapy, band ligation, oesophageal dilatation, foreign body removal, endoscopic polypectomy
• Diagnostic & therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography including biliary & pancreatic duct stenting, papillotomy & stone extraction and nasobiliary drainage
• Liver biopsy, Crosby capsule jejunal biopsy, image guided biopsy and fine needle aspiration
• Percutaneous aspiration of liver abscess
• Diagnostic and therapeutic Endosonography

Collaborations

The department has a collaboration with Leeds University for developing research protocols