Assistant Professor, General SurgeryCurrent
May 2026 — PresentDayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana
Assistant Professor · General Surgery
General surgeon, teacher, & builder of clinical systems.
I operate, teach and write in Ludhiana. Faculty since May 2026, after four years of residency in the same building. The rest of the time goes into the systems around the work: the case log, the operative notes, the occasional essay.
Ludhiana · in training and practice since 2014
About & timeline.
A short account of the work, the path that led here, and the institutions that shaped it.
Ludhiana
Assistant Professor of General Surgery at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, since May 2026. The work is elective and emergency surgery, teaching undergraduates, interns and residents, clinical research, and the operative records and systems around all of it. Same building since 2022.
My work spans elective and emergency general surgery, undergraduate and resident teaching, clinical research, and practical surgical systems. I am building a career that combines operative competence, clear teaching, useful research, and disciplined long-term clinical craft.
Outside the operating theatre I read widely, cycle, and am invested in the slow, cumulative work of surgical craft.
- Based
- Ludhiana, Punjab, India
- Reg.
- PMC Reg. No. 56042
- Languages
- English · Hindi · Punjabi
- Member
- AMASI Associate Life Member · ALM 16792
Senior Resident, General Surgery
May 2025 — May 2026Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana
Resident Doctor / Registrar, General Surgery
May 2022 — May 2025Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana
MS General Surgery
May 2022 — May 2025Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana
Intern Doctor
April 2019 — March 2020Government Medical College / Rajindra Hospital, Patiala
MBBS
September 2014 — March 2019Government Medical College, Patiala
Selected earlier achievements
- 2010NTSE Scholar, NCERT
- 2012NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest Winner
- 2018AIPPM Chair, GMC Patiala
8 areas of operative exposure and continued development
Clinical & academic interests.
The work I do and the work I am still learning, in that order. Exposure is listed as exposure. The operative section below says how independent each part is.
- General SurgeryElective and emergency general surgical care across abdominal, soft-tissue, and acute presentations.
- Laparoscopic SurgeryMinimally invasive abdominal procedures with emphasis on cholecystectomy, appendicectomy, and hernia repair.
- Emergency General SurgeryAcute abdomen, perforation, obstruction, and trauma — early decision-making and operative timing.
- GI / HPB SurgeryContinued development in gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary procedures.
- Hernia and Abdominal Wall SurgeryOpen and laparoscopic repair of inguinal, ventral, incisional, and complex abdominal wall hernias.
- Trauma and Acute CareEmergency triage, damage-control principles, and postoperative critical decision-making.
- Proctology / Anorectal SurgeryBenign anorectal conditions including haemorrhoids, fissure, fistula-in-ano, and perianal abscess.
- Operative Documentation and Surgical SystemsBuilding durable note-taking, operative records, and clinical systems for academic surgical practice.
Primary · assisted · tertiary
Operative exposure.
Three planes: what I do as primary operator, what I have done assisted or supervised, and tertiary work I have assisted at. Deeper means less independent.
- 01 Primary operator
- 02 Assisted / supervised
- 03 Advanced tertiary
Operative experience listed here is presented as a professional academic overview, not as patient-specific information or a claim of outcome superiority.
Tier 01 · Primary operator
Primary operator exposure.
- Emergency laparotomy
- Open appendicectomy
- Laparoscopic appendicectomy
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Hydrocelectomy
- Open inguinal, ventral, and incisional hernia repair
- Diagnostic laparoscopy
- Ileostomy and colostomy creation
- Ileostomy and colostomy reversal
- Bowel resection and anastomosis
- Abscess drainage, debridement, and wound procedures
Tier 02 · Assisted / supervised
Assisted and supervised major exposure.
- eTEP, TAPP, and IPOM hernia repair
- Breast surgery including lumpectomy and modified radical mastectomy
- Thoracotomy
- Thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy
- Colorectal surgery including hemicolectomy, APR, and low anterior resection
- Pancreatic procedures including Whipple, Frey’s procedure, and necrosectomy
Tier 03 · Advanced tertiary
Advanced tertiary exposure.
- Complex hepatopancreatobiliary surgery including CBD exploration
- Liver transplantation — assisted / supervised exposure
Listed under assisted / supervised exposure — not as a claim of independent expertise.
Certifications & training
FMAS — Fellowship in Minimal Access SurgeryAMASIOctober 2025
CCLS ProviderComprehensive Cardiopulmonary Life Support, Indian Resuscitation CouncilMay 2024
Clinical ClerkshipDr. J.W. Crosby’s Clinic · Cambridge, Ontario, CanadaJune 2017
Membership
AMASIAssociate Life Member · ALM 16792
Languages
EnglishProfessional
HindiNative
PunjabiFluent
One paper · one thesis · one poster
Research & academic work.
A peer-reviewed publication, a 244-patient thesis on predicting difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and a conference poster.
Publication · 2025
Early postoperative complications following ileostomy
J Mol Sci. 2025;35(4):1674–1677. Single-centre prospective observational study.
Read the research Thesis · n = 244The Nassar scale and difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy
A prospective study of 244 patients at Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana.
See the cohortUndergraduates · interns · residents
Teaching as a standing duty.
Teaching is a central thread of this practice — undergraduates, interns, and residents. Different questions, same anatomy.
My goal is to help students understand surgery as a way of thinking — anatomy, pathology, decision-making, operative principles, complications, and postoperative care — not just as a list of exam topics.
Teaching happens in the OT, on rounds, in tutorials, and through written notes. Each is a different angle on the same craft.
- MBBS Surgery TeachingUG
- Bedside Clinical TeachingWards
- Operative Principles and TechniqueOT
- Case-Based LearningTutorial
- Resident and Intern MentoringPGY 1–3
- Exam-Oriented Surgical ReasoningViva
two essays · one motion piece
Essays, and other thinking out loud.
Short reflective pieces written alongside the clinical work, when something refuses to stay a thought.
Essay · 2 September 2026
How I pitted local LLMs against each other, Gladiator style, and the final winner was me
A tournament of local vision models on a 6 GB laptop, run for a personal capture app: who invented text, who was honest, and why the harness won.
Read the essay Essay · 26 May 2026The Dangerous Comfort of Planning
A short reflective essay on planning, dopamine, and the only real escape: doing the work.
Read the essay Motion piece · 22sAn Incision — title sequence
A short motion-design film built from the same visual language as this site.
PlayNot for appointments or clinical advice
Academic correspondence.
For academic correspondence, teaching collaboration, and research enquiries. This site is not for appointment booking or clinical advice.
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- Scholar
- Google Scholar profile ↗
- Location
- Ludhiana, Punjab · India
- Registration
- PMC Reg. No. 56042
- CV
- CV available on request
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