Dr Vikrant Kale

Dr Kale has been trained in Gastroenterology and advanced endoscopy in UK and Ireland. After his MBBS from Pune (MUHS,Nashik), he went abroad for further training. He completed his 3 years of training in general medicine and his MRCP from Ireland. He was selected for a highly competitive 5 year super-specialty programme in Gastroenterology (he was the first Indian to be selected for this programme in Ireland). He completed this working in the good hospitals in Dublin, Ireland. He has done an advanced fellowship from John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford University, the UK for one year (One of the best center for gastroenterology training). Fellowship comprised of higher training in endoscopy and inflammatory bowel diseases. This has given him expertise in managing various GI disorders (which includes intestine, liver, gallbladder and pancreas) at a very advanced level. He had opportunity to work with the clinicians and researchers who are at the global forefront in the field of IBD, advanced endoscopy and other GI disorders. He had an opportunity to train with excellent endoscopists with international repute. He has done around 3000 gastroscopies, 2000 colonoscopies and 700 ERCPs until now. This includes wide variety of therapeutic procedures like management of GI bleed, variceal banding, endo-luminal dilatation / stenting, radiofrequency ablation and endoscopic mucosal resections (for early cancers of intestines) among others. He has been a trainer in endoscopy for GI trainees for last 3 years in Ireland.