Dr. Suryaprakash Bhandari has done his Masters in General Surgery from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai in 2002. He was awarded gold medal by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Mumbai for his best academic performance in General Surgery in 2002. He has also cleared his DNB General Surgery examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi.Later he did his fellowship in Gastroenterology and Advanced Therapeutic GI Endoscopy at Seoul, South Korea. He has now attained proficiency in endoscopic management of GERD, Barrett's esophagus, Lasers for managing large bile duct stones, acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis, obesity, endoscopic palliation of GI cancers and endoluminal surgery including EMR, ESD, POEM and STER procedure. He also has large experience of therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy in pediatric population especially difficult colonoscopies and ERCP's. Dr. Bhandari has number of original publications in national and international journals on managing difficult bile duct stones, pancreatic stones, interventional endosonography and role of endosonography in abdominal lymphadenopathy of unknown cause.