Dr Iyer Shridhar Ganpathi

General Surgeon

Specialty

General Surgery

Languages

English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu

Gender

Male

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Key achievements

Performed over 5,000 surgeries
Performed and assisted trained surgeons in more than 400 liver transplantation cases
Led a liver transplant in one of the earliest combined liver and kidney transplantation in Singapore
Led one of the earliest altruistic-directed as well as non-directed living donor surgery in Singapore
Led several quality improvement projects at the National University Hospital including reducing length of stay and efficient discharge processes

Experience

Dr Shridhar Iyer is a general surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

His subspecialty interests are in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery (liver/pancreas/gall bladder/biliary/spleen) and liver transplantation, organ transplantation, surgical oncology and general surgery. He is also proficient in minimally invasive, general and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeries, and robotic surgery.

Dr Iyer was previously a senior consultant and group head of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery at the National University Health System, as well as the co-director of the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation at the National University Hospital (NUH). During his tenure as co-director, he helped strengthen the National Liver Transplant Programme of Singapore through the development of common protocols, allocation of policies, and streamlining of national processes.

He graduated from Grant Medical College, Bombay University, India and later became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. He received the Health Manpower Development Plan award to pursue training in liver transplant surgery. He has more than 25 years of experience in general surgery, and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.

With 18 years of experience in liver transplantation, Dr Iyer has played a pivotal role in the growth of the adult and paediatric living donor liver transplant programmes at NUH. His contributions as surgical director of the national liver transplant programme have been instrumental in enhancing the programme through the development of standardised protocols, allocation policies, and the optimisation of national processes.

His research and clinical work have resulted in more than 100 publications encompassing basic science, surgical techniques, quality improvement and benchmarking.

Dr Iyer is a founding member and past president of the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (Singapore) and the current president of the Society of Transplantation (Singapore).

Besides his clinical work, he is an associate professor in the department of surgery at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He also served as the programme director for the general surgery residency programme at NUH and led the first ACGME-I accreditation for general surgery residency outside the US.

Dr Iyer is a recipient of several National Healthcare Group Quality Pillar awards.

Associated treatments

Liver transplant
Hepatectomy (Laparoscopic)
Da Vinci surgical system: Pancreatectomy / splenectomy
Pancreatectomy (Laparoscopic)
Whipple procedure

Awards and honours

2022
NUHS Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Award (Team Lead)
2013
NUHS Teaching Excellence Award
2011
NUHS Teaching Excellence Award
2009
NUHS Way Quest Award (Merit)
2007 - 2008
National Healthcare Group Quality Pillar Award

Research & publications

Liu, R., Hilal, M. A., Wakabayashi, G., Han, H. S., Palanivelu, C., Boggi, U. Iyer SG, . . . Lau, W. Y. (2023). International experts consensus guidelines on robotic liver resection in 2023. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 29(32), 4815–4830.

Yeow, M., Bonney, G. K., Kow, W. C. A., Wee, P., Madhavan, K., & Iyer, S. G. (2022). Liver transplantation in Singapore: challenges and strategies of low- to mid-volume centers. Transplantation, 106(5), 895–897.

Yeow, M., Pang, N., Chen, Z., Wee, P., Bonney, G. K., Madhavan, K., Kow, W. C. A., & Iyer, S. G. (2021). Evaluation of adult living donor liver transplantation in largest Southeast Asian Transplantation Center: Benchmarking with Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation (A2ALL) experience. Transplantation Proceedings, 53(10), 2953–2962.

Chew, C. A., Iyer, S. G., Kow, A. W. C., Madhavan, K., Wong, A. S. T., Halazun, K. J., Battula, N., Scalera, I., Angelico, R., Farid, S., Buchholz, B. M., Rotellar, F., Chan, A. C., Kim, J. M., Wang, C., Pitchaimuthu, M., Reddy, M. S., Soin, A. S., Derosas, C., . . . Bonney, G. K. (2020). An international multicenter study of protocols for liver transplantation during a pandemic: A case for quadripartite equipoise. Journal of Hepatology, 73(4), 873–881.