Name & qualifications:
Dr Arun Prasad, FRCS (UK), FRCSEd, FACS (USA), MS (MAMC), MBBS (AFMC)

Employment:

• Senior Consultant in General, GI & Bariatric Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, 2020 onwards
• Formerly:
  • Head of Department of Surgery, Chief of Surgical Gastroenerology & Bariatric Surgery. Manipal Hospitals, New Delhi, India, 2018– 2020
  • Senior Consultant in General, GI & Bariatric Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, 1995 – 2018

Other positions:

• President of Obesity Surgery Society of India (OSSI)
• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)
• President – International MGB–OAGB Club ( Bariatric Surgery )
• Founder member of BRICS Bariatric Surgery Society
• Founder member of Indian branch of Clinical Robotic Surgeons Association (CRSA)
• Academic Coordinator of International Bariatric Club Academy (IBCA)
• Vice President of Indian Association of Gastroendoscopic Surgeons ( IAGES )
• Executive Member of Association of Surgeons of India ( Delhi chapter )
• Editor of Journal of Minimal Access Surgery (JMAS)
• Editor of World Journal of Gastroenterology
• Reviewer – Surgical Endoscopy, Obesity Surgery
• Board member of EC Journal of Gastrotenterology
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Bariatric Surgery(JBS)
• Editorial Board Member of World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Trustee – Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTC), Oxford, UK

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