Ravi Marudanayagam
MBBS, MS (Gen Surgery), DNB, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Glasg), FRCS (Eng)
Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon
Mr. Marudanayagam graduated in 1995 from JIPMER, a reputed medical college in India. He completed his residency in General Surgery and was awarded Masters in Surgery (MS) in 1999. He moved to UK in 2002 and pursued further training in surgery in the West Midlands with specialist interest in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery and liver transplantation. He subsequently completed fellowships in ‘minimally invasive HPB surgery’ at Kings College Hospital, London and Seoul National University, South Korea. He also did a ‘Liver transplantation, multi-organ retrieval and HPB surgery’ fellowship in Royal Free Hospital, London. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2001, Glasgow in 2002 and England in 2007.
He was appointed as a Consultant HPB Surgeon in 2010 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Trust. His special clinical interests are advanced minimally invasive liver and pancreatic surgery and surgical management of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. He is active in research and is a principal investigator for a number of European clinical trials focussing on advanced laparoscopic HPB Surgery. He has published over 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His other interest includes education and training of higher surgical trainees. He is a member of a number of National and International professional HPB associations. Notable ones are ‘UK Lead’ for the European Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery (E-MIPS) registry and ‘Education Lead’ for the Minimally Invasive Liver and Pancreas Surgery (MILAPS-UK) association.