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Dr. Deepak Agarwal

Founder, Managing Director & Chief Gastroenterologist Globe Medicare & President Gastro care Medical Research Foundation

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MBBS and M D (Internal Medicine)

DM (Gastroenterology)

Dr. Deepak Kumar Agarwal underwent his MBBS and M D (Internal Medicine) from prestigious King George College, Lucknow, U.P. He was awarded Gold Medal for his outstanding performance as an MD student (best Student, best resident, and best researcher). He joined Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow, U.P, to complete his DM (Gastroenterology), and subsequently continued his academic carrier at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, by undergoing advanced training programs and acquiring newer endoscopic skills.

At SGPGIMS, he pursued his academic interest in the hepato-biliarypancreatic area and developed it as a subspecialty. Apart from starting a dedicated clinic, all interventional procedures, including Diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP, were also evolved. For the first time in India (1990) – a) Endoscopic Ultra Sonography assessment of hepatobiliary-pancreatic areas (EUS), b) Biliary and pancreatic Lithotripsy and Diagnostic tools for predicting Gallstone composition in vivo were introduced at SGPIMS. He was instrumental in developing all these procedures. His clinical research work resulted in around 50 publications, the majority of them in International reputed journals with high impact factors. He took the department to new heights at the national and international levels. During his tenure, he bagged almost all awards at national and state-level conferences in the hepatobiliary-pancreatic area.

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