Dr. Vipulroy Rathod, (M.S; FASGE)
Director
Chief Gastroenterologist
President, Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India - 2019 - 2020
President elect, Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India - 2018 - 2019
Vice president, Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India - 2017 - 2018
Vipulroy Dayanand Rathod is a Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist
(born on May 13, 1964 in Navsari, Gujarat, India). He is the founder and director of
Endoscopy Asia. Vipulroy Rathod has been in clinical practice in Mumbai for more than a
decade and has the largest individual experience in Advanced Endoscopy and Endoscopic
ultrasound in the Indian subcontinent and is the pioneer of Interventional
Pancreato-Billiary EUS.
After completing his M.B.B.S at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in Gujarat, India in 1988 and his M.S in General Surgery in 1992, he went to Germany as a clinical fellow and trainee in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy and Endosonography at the Department of Endoscopic Surgery of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany under Prof. Nib Sohendra and Dr. Kenneth Binmoeller . In 1998, He performed the first ever Interventional Endosonographic procedure in India and pioneered Diagnostic and Interventional Endosonographic Ultrasound in this part of the world.
He has performed more than 18,000 EUS procedures in the last decade (2002-2013)
including more than 8500 Interventional EUS procedures, which is the largest individual experience of EUS in India and this part of the world, apart from over 20,000 various diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures and ERCP.
Dr. Rathod is the promoter and director of Endoscopy Asia, a state of the art tertiary care facility in Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy, located at Sion, Mumbai. His vast experience in Advanced Therapeutic ERCP has complimented his EUS skills in diagnosis, for desired clinical outcomes. He has found the role of combined approach of Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) and ERCP to be of great value in patients with acute, recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis apart from pancreatic tumors.
Through Endoscopy Asia, Dr. Rathod Medical Foundation and Endoscopy Guru, Dr. Rathod has trained over 350 aspiring Gastroenterologists and Endoscopists from around the world. He has trained more than 75 International Fellow Gasteroenterologists from as far as USA, UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Philippines, Slovakia, Syria, UAE, Oman, Iran, Libya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia and South Africa.
He is recognized as one of the world leaders in Endoscopic ultrasound and has represented India in over 50 countries as International Faculty, Speaker and Demonstrator in leading Gastroenterology & Endoscopy conferences and workshops. In 2006, he was invited as a visiting professor at Yale University, New Haven USA. He has been awarded a fellowship as Fellow of American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE).
Dr. Rathod is in high regard in the Indian society and is respected as an exemplary role model for the youth in his field.