At Present Working As

Minimally Invasive GI and HPB surgeon, Asian Bariatrics Hospital, Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Associated with, Apollo CBCC cancer center, Ahmedabad GCS Medical College, Ahmedabad

Working Experience:

• Assistance professor, From July 2009 to March 2011 Dept. of general surgery, PDU medical college, Rajkot

Educational Profile

• Lakeshore Hospital & Research Center Kochi, Kerala

• SMIMER Medical College, Surat. Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat.

• Government Medical College, Surat. Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat.

Presentations :

• Paper presented at 2nd National conference -2003 of Problem Solving Better Health [PSBH] at Thiruvanthpuram on “Awareness about common childhood illness in slum area of Surat City”

Presentations

• Case Report presented at GujSurgiCon-2008, Rajkot. “Primary Repair (without T tube) of isolated Common Bile Duct Injury due to Blunt trauma abdomen.”

• Paper presentation: Preoperative Mechanical Bowel Preparation in rectal cancer surgery: single centre Randomized Control Trial, interim results. At IASGCON 2011, Jaipur.
• Poster presentation: Early experience with laparoscopic right hemicolectomy: single center retrospective analysis at IASGCON 2011, Jaipur.
• Poster presentation: Median pancreatectomy: does it really helpful?

• Poster presentation: laparoscopic cholecystectomy after tube cholecystostomy for acute severe cholecystitis: a case series at IHPBA INDIA 2013, Coimbatore.
• Poster presentation: Preoperative nutritional assessment of patients undergoing Whipple PD operation and its relationship to early outcome, at IASGCON 2013 Kolkata.
• Paper presentation: Preoperative Mechanical Bowel Preparation in rectal cancer surgery: single centre Randomized Control Trial, at ASGKON 2014, Kochi.

Research Projects :

• Preoperative nutritional assessment of patients undergoing Whipple PD operation and its relationship to early postoperative outcome. – Thesis topic DNB (surgical gastroenterology).
• A study comparing POSSUM Score with Surgeon’s Gut feeling in Predicting Postoperative Outcome (A Study of 900 cases) – Thesis topic M.S. (general surgery).
• A study of over the counter Drug Intake Behavior of people (OTC) in urban area of Surat city, during internship.
• “Awareness about common childhood illness in slum area of Surat City” during III M.B.B.S. – under community medicine department.

Publications

• Darshan J, Vaishnav D, Vaidya H : Possum score vs surgeons gut feeling in predicting post operative mortality . Ind Res Commun 2010, 4(2), 128-9
• Vaishnav D, Chandra S, Lakhia T. A Giant Liver Cyst with Biliary Surgical Cases 2016 Jan - April;2(2): 5-7
• Vaishnav D, Lakhia T (2017) Lateral Pancreatogastrostomy for Stenotic Pancreatojejunostomy after Pancreatoduodenectomy: A Case Report. Pancreat Disord Ther 7: 184. doi:10.4172/2165-7092.1000184
• Vaishnav D, Castleman's disease associated with pemphigus vulgaris: remains retrospectively diagnosed entity. DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2018.14632 EJMO 2018;2(3):173–175

As practicing GI surgeon :

• Poster presentation: Quality of life after Frey procedure for chronic pancreatitis after failed endoscopic therapy, at IASGCON 2014, Ahmedabad
• Poster Presentation ” Preoperative nutritional assessment of patients undergoing Whipple PD operation and its relationship to early postoperative outcome” at DDW 2015, Washington DC
• Poster Presentation: Validation Of Bisap Scoring System For Predicting Severity Of Acute Pancreatitis: A Pilot Study at IHPBA INDIA 2016, Ahmedabad.
• Poster presentation DIFFICULT GALLBLADDER”: INCIDENCE AND MANAGEMENT AT SUBSPECIALTY SURGICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY UNIT IASGCON 2017 at JIPMER, Pondicherry.
• E poster presentation: Thoracoscopic Esophageal Mobilization in Presence of Aberrant Subclavian Artery at 15th IAGES, conference 2018, Raipur.
• Video presentation ‘Laparoscopic anterior resection with side to side Colo-rectal stapled anastomosis” at XXVIII National Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, 2018 at Chandigarh.
• Video presentation ‘laparoscopic left lateral liver resection – bleed from vena cava and effective suture technique’ at KSELS 2019, Seoul Korea.

Prizes during subspecialty training :

• Second prize in QUIZ competition during 1st international ESO INDIA conference at Chennai, 2013.
• Best case presentation prize at Cochin Clinical society meet, 2013.
• Best oral presentation during ASGKON 2014 at Kochi.
• Recently selected in mentorship program- Pancreas India, (twenty young doctors selected from all over India) run by Indian Pancreas Club, for year 2014.
• Got TRAVEL GRANT to attend master class and visit to Asan medical center along with Korean society of endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery International symposium 2019, at Seoul South Korea.

Academic achievements

• coordinator, 1st lecture series surgical gastroenterology December 2015, At Ahmedabad
• co-organizer, 3rd safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy course July 2018 at Ahmedabed
• Organizing secretory, 3rd FALS colorectal 2019 course under IAGES at Ahmedabad

Membership at various societies

• Life member Association of surgeons of INDIA (ASI)
• Life member Indian asso of surgical gastroenterology (IASG)
• Life member of IAGES
• Life member of IMA
• International Member of American gasteoenterolgy association
• International Member of SAGES,
• International Member of SSAT