Dr Mitesh Shetty

Dr Mitesh Shetty is a Consultant Medical Geneticist in Bangalore. He has been associated with Manipal hospitals since 2004 and currently heads the department of Medical Genetics at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. He has over 17 years experience in the field of Medical Genetics.After completing his MBBS from D.Y. Patil Medical College, University of Mumbai, he pursued his masters in Medical Genetics from University of Glasgow, UK. He is trained in Clinical Genetics & Cytogenetics from the prestigious Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics, Glasgow, U.K. Being inclined towards contributing to the research field, he later went on to do his PhD in Medical Genetics from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). 17 years of extensive experience in the field of Medical Genetics include Prenatal diagnosis, Genetic Counselling & Genetic disorders like Down syndrome, Autism,β-Thalassemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) & Spinal muscular atrophy(SMA), Huntington Chorea etc. His area of expertise is Karyotyping, FISH study, Double/Quadruple study, Chromosomal Microarray, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and risk assessment in hereditary cancer disorders like Breast & Ovarian cancer. He has over 7 years of teaching experience in medical college. In addition to teaching, he provides guidance to Ph.D., M.Phil. & MSc students, co-authored a chapter in the Cardiology book as well as published several papers in peer reviewed International & national journals. He has given numerous awareness talks on Genetics at various organizations, institutes, TV and Radio talk shows, Facebook Live, etc.