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HARSHAL SHYAM RAJEKAR
MS GENERAL SURGERY, MRCS ONCOSURGERY, FELLOWSHIP GASTROENTEROLOGY - SURGERY, FELLOWSHIP HEPATOLOGY
GASTROENTEROLOGY - SURGERY, HEPATOLOGY, ONCOSURGERY, TRANSPLANT SURGERY
Specialist In: LIVER SURGERY.,HEPATO-BILIARY AND PANCREATIC SURGERY.,TRANSPLANT SURGERY.,SURGERY OF PANCREAS, GALL BLADDER, PANCREAS, BILE DUCTS.,LIVER SURGERY.,UPPER GI CANCER SURGERY.,LIVER TRANSPLANT SURGERY.,LDLT, DDLT, ORGAN HARVESTING,PANCREATIC CANCER,,GALL BLADDER CANCER,,BILE DUCT CANCER,,KLATSKIN TUMORS,,LIVER CANCER,,
Experience : 1. Presently working as Consultant in Hepatobiliary, GI and transplant surgery at Jupiter
Hospital, Baner, Pune. (370 bedded super-speciality tertiary care hospital). Since
October 2016 – Present.
2. Served as Consultant HPB, GI and transplant Surgeon at Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune. (RHC is a
550 bedded multi-speciality hospital). (Sep 2012 – Sep 2016).
Also worked as consultant Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon at KEM hospital,
Pune.
Was attached as Liver transplant Surgeon at Hiranandani hospital, Powai, Mumbai.
Was attached to the following hospitals as consultant in GI surgery and Hepatobiliary
surgery:
- Jehangir Nursing Home, Pune.
- MJM Hospital, Ghole Road, Pune.
- Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Pune.
- Inamdar Multispeciality Hospital, Pune.
- Rao Nursing Home, Satara Road, Pune.
- Sanjeevan Hospital, Kothrud, Pune.
- Sharada Clinic and hospital, Karad.
- Satara Diagnostic Centre and Satara Hospital, Satara.
Working as Assistant Professor in General Surgery at Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College
and HPB and GI surgeon at Bharati Hospital, Dhanakwadi, Pune.

3. Assistant Professor (Initially as Pool officer) in General Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh,
since Apr 2011. Was appointed as a faculty member, in general surgery with a view to
further develop the liver transplant program.
June 2010 – April 2011 : Pool officer.
April 2011 – Sep 2012 : Assistant Professor.
Established the liver transplant program at PGIMER, and the team performed 5 liver
transplants in 18 months.
Resigned for personal reasons.
4. ACADEMIC PROGRAM IN ABDOMINAL ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Recanati Miller Transplant Institute New York.
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009. Job title: Research fellow/ visiting physician.
Job responsibilities included 6 months of assisting with organ transplant surgery for
Liver, pancreas and small bowel transplant and pre- and post-operative assessment and
care. For 6 months in charge or organ procurement for the centre and participated in

retrievals or liver, pancreas, small bowel and kidneys for the Transplant Institute. During
the whole year, was required to assist with clinical research and help in laboratory
experiments.
5. Worked as a Fellow/ Senior Registrar in Liver Transplantation and GI surgery at Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) in New Delhi, India since June-Dec 2008.
Was admitted with a view to pursue a PhD at SGRH research topic: Cytokine and T-cell
profiling in liver transplant recipients with a view to predicting graft tolerance.
However, had to quit due to delay in setting up research infrastructure, with further
delay expected.

6. Worked as a CLINICAL FELLOW/ SURGICAL FELLOW in a training capacity at the Asian
Centre for Liver diseases and Transplantation, Singapore at the Gleneagles hospital.
Designation – Clinical/Surgical fellow in Hepatobiliary and Transplantation.
Grade -SPR.

Duties included assisting/performing Surgery, including transplant and HPB surgery, pre-
op evaluation post operative care, patient and donor counseling and managing patients

in the Liver ICU. Also included academic Journal club every 2 weeks and transplant
meetings every week.

7. Was employed as Registrar in GE surgery, in the Wakefield hospital, and Wakefield
Gastroenterology center, Wellington, New Zealand.
Completed a fellowship/ training programme for a period of 18 months in the capacity
as registrar(SPR) to:
1. Mr Richard Stubbs in upper GI and HBP surgery and
2. Mr John Groom in colorectal and laparoscopic surgery (1 day per week).
Duties include the primary care of patients including pre-op assessment and post
operative care, assisting with all surgery and 1 in 4 on call. Took active part in research
activities, principally clinical research related to insulin resistance and colorectal liver
metastases.
Grade – SPR, Title – Surgical Fellow.

8. Was convener of the “ Inter Institutional tumor board” in Sassoon general hospitals,
Pune for a period of 18 months from Jun 2004 till Dec 2005.
Was involved in coordinating the activities of approx 12 cancer specialists to cater to all
diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in cancer patients, Pune, India.
(Essentially a Multi-disciplinary Cancer Clinic, the first in the city of Pune.)

9. LECTURER(ASSISTANT PROFESSOR) IN GENERAL SURGERY at Sassoon General Hospitals
(Government medical college and general hospital) and B.J. Medical College, Pune for
two years from April 2004 to December 2005.
Job responsibilities included that equivalent to a junior Consultant/ Senior registrar.
Involved in performing 15 – 20 surgeries per week, including Oncosurgery, minimally
invasive surgery and general and GI surgery.
One in six on-call with A&E surgery, and Trauma surgery, supervising the pre operative
assessment and the post operative management of all patients and the training of
Junior surgical staff.

10. Worked as Lecturer/ SPR in General and Onco- Surgery in Jehangir Hospitals and Apollo
group of Hospitals, Pune in the year 2004.
Responsibilities included that equivalent to a senior surgical registrar involved
performing Surgery, assisting with major surgery and pre – operative assessment and
post operative day to day management of patients. The team did between 10 – 15
cancer surgeries per week.

11. Worked as resident/ house officer in GENERAL SURGERY for three years in charge of
primary care of all patients admitted in the surgery wards for elective and all trauma
and emergency general surgery, as part of the curriculum for training for M.S. [Masters
in general surgery].
(Jan 2001 - Jan 2004).
At Sassoon general hospitals, Pune - A 1400 bedded tertiary care center, with approx
4500 emergency surgeries per year and about 9500 planned surgeries per year. Intake
of about 48,000 indoor patients per year.

12. Worked as Primary/ Chief Medical Officer in charge P.H.C.(primary health centre),
Tokawde: A tribal area in District Thane, Maharashtra for one year (March 2000 –March
2001).
Catering to primary care of a population of 35,000 including child and maternal health,
Immunization programme and other primary health care. Was in charge of
implementing National Health Programmes.
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Query : Need liver enlargement treatment at Delhi. What is your height? Body weight? Diabetes? Cholesterol? Lifestyle? Previous medical history, previous medications, surgeries and other significant illness? Get blood tests done : i.e. LFT, CBC, INR, HBsAg, Anti HCV, HbA1C and Lipid profile.
Query : Need advice for piles surgery ans Hep C infection. Hello, As you mentioned: 1. Patient has hepatitis C. 2. Patient is having bleeding piles. Laser treatment is possible, but before offering any treatment, let us get some facts. i. Has he taken treatment for hepatitis C? If yes, what? ii. What is the latest blood tests. Kindly upload LFT, INR, CBC, Serum creatinine, Serum Sodium, Serum albumin reports. iii. has the patient undergone colonoscopy? If not please get a colonoscopy. iv. Get a CT scan abdomen with contrast (if renal function is normal). All this needs to be done considering the age of the patient, to rule out a colon cancer, and to confirm the status of the liver cirrhosis (yes or no) and presence of ascites. Important from finding the safest treatment for the patient. A laser surgery may be done, but may not be the most appropriate. Let us get a complete picture of the current medical status first.
Query : Need medication advice for Chronic hepatitis b infection. I saw the reports. Inference - 3 lesions at least. Tumor thrombus in Portal Vein. The liver function is normal and the patient is well compensated. The liver cirrhosis has not resulted in abnormality of liver function yet. In this situation - TACE may be helpful, but it may not result in a significant improvement in the patients survival. The best option in this situation would be TARE (trans arterial radio embolization). It is an expensive proposition with an increased risk of side effects, but TARE will likely result in improved patient survival, we may be able to prolong the patients life by 6-12 momnths on an average. The next best option would be to do an RFA (radio frequency ablation) of all three lesion. However, this will probably not add to the patients survival. The next step would be to rule out metastases of the tumor (spread of the tumor) by doing a PET-CT/ CT chest and abdomen with a bone scan. If there was a live donor in the family there may be some centers agreeing to do a liver transplant (an LDLT). However the risk of recurrence is prohibitively high. Meanwhile start treatment for the HBV (an antiviral - entecavir or tenofovir), start the sorafenib.
Query : What is the estimate for liver transplant? Liver cirrhosis is irreversible scarring of the liver. Even with liver cirrhosis, liver function may be well maintained, called as well compensated. If the liver decompensates, i.e. the liver function is unable to meet the requirements of the body; then there is probably no alternative to a liver transplant. If the cause of liver cirrhosis like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or alcohol intake or autoimmune liver disease is treatable, then treatment may result in am improvement in liver function. With decompensated liver cirrhosis, liver transplant is the only option available. From the reports there is evidence that the liver function is abnormal. Please get a CT scan or an MRI of the liver/ abdomen.
Query : Need advice for polyp in colon. What treatment should we take? Assuming that you are otherwise healthy, have no other liver/ heart or renal illness and no other cause for the rectal bleeding was found; I would suggest that the cecal polyp (2x2cm) should be removed endoscopically and be subject to histological examination. Depending on the histopathological findings further action would need to be decided.