Dr. K Prakash

About Dr. K Prakash

• Dr. K Prakash is a renowned and skilled Surgical Gastroenterologist in Kerala.
• With over 25 years of thriving experience, he received training from top institutions in Europe and India.
• Dr. Prakash specializes in complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeries, along with advanced laparoscopic procedures.
• His educational journey includes an MBBS from the University of Calicut and an MS (Surgery) from Medical College, Baroda.
• After this, he completed his MCh in Surgical Gastroenterology from Medical College Trivandrum in 1998
• Dr. Prakash further honed his skills with AFSA (Attestation de Formation Specialisee Approfondie) at the University of Pierre et Curie, Paris.
• He underwent specialized training, including a hands-on workshop and animal lab in Microvascular surgery at the Ethicon Training Centre in Chennai.
• Dr. Prakash also completed a certificate course in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery at Kyungpook National University, Taegy, South Korea.
• With a remarkable track record, he has successfully conducted over 16,000 open GI Surgery procedures and over 5,000 GI Laparoscopic procedures.
• Dr. Prakash's unit holds a notable achievement for the highest number of colonic and rectal resections for both benign lesions and cancer in the state.
• Pioneering advanced techniques, he became the first surgeon in Kerala to perform single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy and single-incision laparoscopic colorectal resection.

Education

• MBBS Medical College, University of Calicut, Kerala, 1992
• MS, Medical College Baroda
• MCh, Medical College Trivandrum
• Fellowship, PACE training program at AV Hospital and Vikram Hospital, Bangalore.