Additional Professor & Convener, Lung Cancer Clinic (Department of Surgical Disciplines), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Varoon Mahajan Fellow in Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA
Raj Nanda Fellow in Advanced Lung Cancer & Lung Volume Reduction Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, UK
Senior Registrar, Surgical Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital, London & Sutton, UK
Senior Registrar, South West Regional Thoracic Surgery Centre, UK
Fellow in Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Certification & Training in Robotic Surgery at Intuitive Surgical Labs, SUNNYVALE, USA and at University of San Francisco
Credentials:
-Dr Sabyasachi Bal is a Thoracic Surgeon with sub specialty fellowship training in chest cancer surgery
-His practice focuses on the management of all surgical conditions of the chest in adolescents and adults with special emphasis on cancers affecting the organs of the chest
-Dr Bal is the Director of the department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Surgical Oncology and is assisted by a surgical team with considerable surgical experience and expertise and supported by a team of dedicated surgical intensivists and pulmonologists, anaesthesiologists, paramedical personnel and physiotherapists
-He is an alumnus of AIIMS, New Delhi and was, till 2005, an Additional Professor of Surgery and Consultant Thoracic Surgery and Chief of the Lung Cancer and other thoracic malignancies Clinic at his Alma mater, the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
-He is an active member of a large number of surgical associations societies in India, USA, UK and Japan and has numerous peer reviewed scientific publications and awards to his credit including the Norman Tanner Best Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK), the Japanese Surgical Society Award in 1996 & 1997, the Varoon Mahajan Fellowship of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA, the Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship to Glen field Hospital, University of
Leicester, UK and the Best Paper Award of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology in 2002 and 2011
-He is an invited Faculty for a large number of National and international teaching groups and was a Faculty at the First and Second Asian Masters Workshop in Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Shanghai under the auspices of Duke University, Duham USA and Shanghai University. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships and orations
-Dr Bal is a former fellow of the internationally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre at New York and a Senior Registrar at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, London
-He has trained in Thoracic surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi and in the UK at the South West Regional Thoracic Surgery Unit at Bristol and at the Brompton Chest Hospital, London. He has been a clinical research fellow at University of Leicester, UK in advanced lung cancer surgery and in Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema which he has pioneered in India
-Dr Bal is also one of the pioneers in diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopic procedures in India and today, the department has the largest number of VATS lung resections in India. He has now added Robotic Thoracic Surgery to his armamentarium Patient care should be individualized based on the patient?s level of activity, age, diagnosis and expectations. Dr. Bal applies this approach to his practice daily. He considers all treatment options, both surgical and nonsurgical, when caring for his patients. Dr. Bal believes in treating his patients as he would members of his family; a philosophy etched into his practice by his mentors from residency. He also ensures that all patients have access to a team of experts from many different fields including specialists from surgery, anesthesiology, pulmonary medicine, critical care, ultramodern radiology, medical Oncology and Radiation Oncology.
Area of expertise:
Lung and Esophageal Cancer
All Chest Cancers
Major Airway Tumors and Injuries
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
Robotic Thoracic Surgery
Open Chest surgery including lung sparing surgery for cancer
Areas of Interest:
General Thoracic (Lung, Pleura, mediastinum )
Foregut Surgery (esophagus and stomach, pancreas, liver)
Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS -Diagnostic & Therapeutic)
Thoracic Surgical Oncology with special emphasis on Lung Cancer including parenchyma preservation, chest wall resections, Tracheal resections, palliative surgery and resection of Foregut Tumours
Thyroid and Parathyroid and Pancreatic Endocrine Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Robotic Thoracic Surgery
Education
1984 : MS (Gen Surg) AIIMS, New Delhi
1989-93: Senior Registrar, Thoracic Surgery, University of Bristol and Royal Marsden Cancer Centre , London, UK
1994: UICC Fellow, University of Washington
1999: Varoon Mahajan Fellow, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA
2000-2001: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Respiratory Medicine & Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
Professional Background:
1985-88 : Senior Registrar and Senior Research associate, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi.
1988-89: Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrine Surgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India,
1993-1997: Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi,
1997-2001: Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery & Chief, Lung Cancer Clinic, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi
2001-2005: Additional Professor of Thoracic Surgery & Chief, Lung Cancer Clinic, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi
2006-2009: Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery & Thoracic Surgical and Foregut Oncology, Fortis-Escorts Hospitals, New Delhi and NCR
2009-Present: Director & Head, Thoracic Surgery & Thoracic Surgical and Foregut Oncology, Fortis-Escorts Hospitals, New Delhi and NCR
2015 : Fellow in Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, USA
2016: Certification and Training in Robotic Thoracic Surgery , Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale Calfornia and Atlanta, Georgia and University of San Francisco, California, USA
Professional Memberships:
Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)
Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
Indian Association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons (IACTS)
Japan Society of Surgery
British Surgical Stapling Group, UK
Awards and Honours:
1990: Norman Tanner Best Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK)
1995: Japanese Surgical Society Award for Extended resections in Rectal Cancer, Nagoya
1996: Japanese Surgical Society Award for Complex resections in Thyroid Cancer, Kobe, Japan
1999: Varoon Mahajan Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA
2000-2001: Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship, Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, UK
2002 & 2011: Best Paper Award in Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
2013: Invited Faculty , 1St Asian Masters Conference in Minimal Access Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai, China
Total peer reviewed publications: 117 original papers (1985-present), 8 Chapters in Books
Editor, Thoracic Surgery Section, Indian Journal of Cardio thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Areas of Expertise:
Major lung resections for carcinoma and other tumours including chest wall resections
Parenchyma preserving surgery for lung malignancies-?sleeve resections?
Resection of pulmonary secondaries
Oesophageal resections for malignancy
Surgery for benign oesophageal disorders
Pleural diseases such as empyema and pneumothorax
Tracheal resections for strictures, tumours and trauma
Complex Resections for Thyroid Cancer
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
Mediastinal tumours (VATS and open surgery)
Video-assisted diagnostic and therapeutic surgery ( including lung resections, esophagectomy, oesophageal motility disorders and thymectomy for myasthenia gravis and mediastinal, thyroid, thymic and parathyroid tumours).
ROBOTIC SURGERY for all Thoracic Pathology
Malignant Pleural and Pericardial effusions-Thoracoscopic treatment
Chest wall deformities including Nuss Procedure
Soft tissue and Solid Tumours including chest wall primary lesions
Thyroid and Parathyroid disorders needing Thoracic input
Surgery for thyroid disorders and cancers and parathyroid and pancreatic endocrine diseases
Day Care diagnostic thoracoscopy and mediastinoscopy
