Shailesh Shrikhande

Shailesh V. Shrikhande

MS (Mumbai), MD (Heidelberg), FRCS (Hon, London), FASA (Hon, USA), FACS (Hon, USA), FRCS (Hon, Edin)

Shailesh V. Shrikhande is a Professor of Surgical Oncology and Head of GI, HPB Surgical Service & Division of Cancer Surgery at the Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai, India. He is also the Deputy Director of Tata Memorial Hospital. He was ranked first in the Master of Surgery examinations of Mumbai University in 1997 and later received specialist training in Pancreatic Research and Pancreatic Surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland and the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was the first Asian to receive the Kenneth Warren Fellowship of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) in 2005. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (magna cum laude) by the University of Heidelberg for his original clinical and basic research on chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in 2006. He has delivered over 600 lectures and orations all over the world. Apart from having published over 370 clinical and basic science research papers in leading peer-reviewed journals (including a series of 1200 Whipple Resections), Professor Shrikhande has also given 65 live operative masterclass demonstrations on pancreatic, gastric, gall bladder and colorectal cancer across India and abroad. He has contributed over 75 book chapters and is the Chief Editor of the books “Surgery of Pancreatic tumours” (2007) and “Pancreatic Cancer: Current Understanding” (2011), ‘Modern Gastrointestinal Oncology (2015) and Pancreas (2023). His h-index stands at 67. He has been an invited Visiting Professor to 12 prestigious Universities in the USA, Europe and Japan. He is Adjunct Professor in Surgical Oncology in KMC, Manipal and Honorary Doctor at KLE University Hospital, Belgavi, India.   

He was the Chairman of the Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) committee for developing guidelines for the management of Pancreatic and Gastric Cancer in India. He serves on the editorial boards of leading international journals of GI and HPB surgery. He is the Past President of the Indian Chapter of IHPBA and of the APHPBA. He is currently Secretary-General Elect of the IHPBA. In recognition of his work on pancreatic cancer and digestive cancer surgery in India, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014 (FRCS – Ad Eundem) and the Honorary Fellowship (ad hominem) of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in March 2025. In 2021, he became only the second Indian in the 144-year history of the American Surgical Association (ASA) to be conferred the Honorary Fellowship of ASA for “unusually noteworthy contributions to surgery of long-lasting value and worthy of the highest International Recognition”. He serves as a board member of the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS) since 2023. He was conferred Honorary Fellowship of American College of Surgeons (FACS) in San Francisco at the Annual ACS Congress in October 2024.

Stanford University published a list of world’s best contributing researchers in the PLOS One journal in November 2021-2025. Professor Shrikhande is ranked amongst the top 2% (amongst >55,000 researchers) worldwide.

In his administrative capacity as a Deputy Director at Tata Memorial, he is currently spearheading the Tata Memorial Centre’s expansion plan which shall comprise of a 550 bed state of the art hospital (Platinum Jubilee Block) and even a Dharamshala designed exclusively for poor patients in Mumbai to mitigate their suffering when they seek treatment at Tata Memorial Centre from remote corners of India.