Dr Shanker Pasupathy - StarMed Specialist Centre

Dr Shanker Pasupathy

Designation: Senior Consultant, Gastrointestinal & Vascular

About

Speciality: General Surgery
Sub-speciality: Gastrointestinal and vascular surgery, Weight loss and metabolic disease intervention

Dr Shanker Pasupathy is a general surgeon with a special interest in keyhole surgery for obesity and metabolic disorders, as well as gastroesophageal conditions, gallbladder and abdominal hernia.
Dr Shanker pioneered the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (removal of a portion of the stomach) and laparoscopic gastric bypass (creating a pouch in the stomach) at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in 2008. As a firm believer in collaboration, he also established the metabolic-bariatric surgery service at the Department of Upper Gastrointestinal and Bariatric Surgery in the hospital.
He is the president of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of Singapore (OMSSS), a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and an international faculty member at the Asian Institute of Telesurgery (AITS) in Taiwan. He has also been regularly invited to conduct workshops in keyhole surgery locally and overseas.

More About Dr Shanker

Qualification

Clinical Interests

Current Appointments

Member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
International faculty member at the Asian Institute of Telesurgery (AITS), Taiwan
President of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of Singapore (OMSSS)

Languages

Training

Graduated from National University of Singapore in 1995, with his undergraduate medical degree
Completed his training in general, gastro-intestinal and vascular surgery in Singapore, Germany and the UK.
Spent a year in France acquiring skills in advanced keyhole surgery techniques (laparoscopy and robotic surgery).
Returned to Singapore and pioneered the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic gastric bypass at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in 2008.
Initiated the comprehensive metabolic-bariatric surgery service at SGH with support from the Department of Endocrinology, eventually rising to become director of the LIFE Centre.