About prof. Ramana

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1. John Fawkner Private Hospital, Coburg, VIC

2. Northern Private Hospital, Epping, VIC

3. Epworth Freemasons, East Melbourne, VIC

4. Knox Private Hospital, Wantirna, VIC

5. Holmesglen Private Hospital, Moorabbin, VIC

6. Goulburn Valley Health, Shepparton, VIC

MBBS, MS, DNB, FRCS, FACS, FRACS, FIBC, FISA

1. Hernia surgery and abdominal wall reconstruction

2. Bariatric and metabolic surgery

3. Robotic surgery

4. Advanced laparoscopic surgery

5. Hiatus hernia surgery

6. General surgery

30 years and counting

*General surgery

*Advanced laparoscopic surgery

*Robotic general surgery

*Laparoscopic and robotic hernia surgery

*Laparoscopic and robotic bariatric surgery:

sleeve gastrectomy, mini gastric bypass, RNY bypass, SADI-S

*Bariatric revisional surgery

*Laparoscopic and robotic hiatus hernia surgery

*Open, laparoscopic and robotic surgery of small and large bowel (obstruction, internal hernia, perforation, gangrene, inflammation, tumors, etc.)

*Management of post bariatric surgery complications

*Advanced procedures (open, laparoscopic and robotic) in abdominal wall reconstruction

*Botox as preoperative adjunct in management of giant hernias

*Management of loss of domain hernias

*Fasciotens in complex hernias

*Open abdomen management

*Management of mesh related complications in groin and ventral hernias

*Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

*Laparoscopic appendectomy

*Laparoscopic bile duct exploration

*Laparoscopic management of gastric/duodenal perforations

*Laparoscopic resection of GIST tumours

*Laparoscopic management of post-operative infections and abscesses

*Thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy

*Emergency management of peritonitis

*Laparoscopic and robotic adrenalectomy

* Invited Editor, Recent Advances in Minimal Access Surgery, Special Edition — Hernia and Abdominal

Wall Reconstruction, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, October 2024.

* Editor, TEP Hernia Repairs — An Illustrated Book, Springer, under publication.

* Nguyen P, Balasubramaniam R (November 01, 2024) AbThera, Botox, and Fasciotens: A Trifecta in

Open Abdomen Management. Cureus 16(11): e72829. doi:10.7759/cureus.72829

* Ravindra C, Rengan V, B R (December 28, 2022) A Systematic Review of Fibonacci Sequence in the

Human Abdominal Wall: Facts and Reality. Cureus 14(12): e33072. doi:10.7759/cureus.33072

* Khetan M, Kalhan S, John S, Sethi D, Kannaujiya P, Ramana B. MIS retromuscular repair of lateral

incisional hernia: technological deliberations and short-term outcome. Hernia. 2022

Oct;26(5):1325-1336. doi: 10.1007/s10029-022-02671-1. Epub 2022 Sep 10. PMID: 36088435

• Arora E, Mishra A, Mhaskar R, Ramana Balasubramaniam. Are drains useful in eTEP ventral hernia

repairs? An AWR surgical collaborative (AWRSC) retrospective study. Surgical Endoscopy. 2022 Feb.

DOI: 10.1007/s00464-022-09121-0. PMID: 35165760

• Arora, E., Kukleta, J. & Ramana, B. A Detailed History of Retromuscular Repairs for Ventral Hernias: A

Story of Surgical Innovation. World J Surg 46, 409–415 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/

s00268-021-06362-3

• Khetan M, Dey A, Bindal V, Suviraj J, Mittal T, Kalhan S, Malik VK, Ramana B. e- TEP repair for mid-

line primary and incisional hernia: technical considerations and initial experience. Hernia. 2021 Apr 7.

doi: 10.1007/s10029-021-02397-6.

• Ramana, B. & Dube, B. The Issues of Post Lichtenstein Chronic Groin Pain. World J. Surg. doi:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s0026802105977w, 2021

• Gandhi, J., Churiwala, J. J & Ramana, B. AWR (Hernia) Surgery in India: an Update. Ind. J. Surg. doi:

10.1007/s12262021027313 (2021)

• Ramana, B., Arora, E. & Belyansky, I. Signs and landmarks in eTEP RivesStoppa repair of ventral

hernias. Hernia (2020). doi:10.1007/ s10029020022164• Arora E, Ramana B. Safety in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction. In: Tantia O, Chaudhuri T, eds. Safety

in Minimal Access Surgery Evidence and Recommendations. 1st ed. ; 2021:235-249. Available at https:// www.jaypeebrothers.com/pgDetails.aspx?cat=s&book_id=9789390595570.

• B. Ramana and Michael Rosen. Complex hernias: an overview. Surg. Gastroenterol. Ed Haribhakti S, 3rd ed., 2019

• B. Ramana and Ankit Mishra: Loss of domain. Surgical Gastroenterol., Ed Haribhakti S, 3rd edition, 2019

• B. Ramana and Ankit Mishra: Epigastric, paraumbilical, lumbar and incisional hernias.Surgical Gas-

troenterol. Ed Haribhakti S, 3rd edition, 2019

• Ramana B, Sinha R, Jacob B, Towfigh S, Rosin D. Acronyms Use in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction:

Introduction to a New Language. World J Surg. 2020;44(1):78-83. doi:10.1007/s00268-019-05221-6

• Ramana B, Arora E. Loss of Domain: Going Beyond the Stewart Test. World J Surg. 2020;44(4):1079-

1080. doi:10.1007/s00268-019-05303-5

• Balasubramanian R. Concomitant bariatric surgery and component separation: Historical advance or

a blunder?. J Minim Access Surg. 2018;14(3):259-260. doi:10.4103/ jmas.JMAS_223_17

• I Belyansky, J. Daes, V. Gheorghe Radu, R. Balasubramaniam, H. Reza Zahiri, A. S. Weltz, U. S. Sib-

ia, A.Park, Y. Novitsky. A novel approach using the enhancedview totally extraperitoneal (eTEP) technique for laparoscopic retromuscular hernia repair. Surg. Endosc. 32 (2018). doi: 10.1007/

s0046401758402

• Ramana B. Suprapubic Incisional Hernias: Is Open Surgery a Standard?. World J Surg.

2017;41(6):1475. doi:10.1007/s00268-017-3979-6

• B. Ramana: Robotics in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction. Monograph on Robotics & SILS, Max

Healthcare, New Delhi, India (2017)

• Kular, K. S., Prasad, A., Ramana, B. et al. Petersen's hernia after mini (one anastomosis) gastric bypass. J. Visc. Surg. 153, 321 (2016) doi: 10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2016.05.010

• Ramana B. Radical laparoscopic treatment for liver hydatidosis. World J Surg. 2013;37(10):2393.

doi:10.1007/s00268-013-2151-1

• Ramana B. Henna as a durable preoperative skin marker. World J Surg. 2011;35(2):316-317.

doi:10.1007/s00268-010-0879-4

• B. Ramana Laparoscopy in Abdominal Tuberculosis. World J. Surg. (2011)

• Ramana B. Malaria: who is at fault?. World J Surg. 2007;31(11):2072-2074. doi:10.1007/ s00268-007-9238-5

• B. Ramana. Modified technique of laparoscopic intraperitoneal hernioplasty for irreducible scrotal hernias. World J.Surg. (2007). doi: 10.1007/s0026800790970

• B. Ramana. The physiologic basis of surgery. World J. Surg. (2007) doi:10.1007/ s0026800794352

• B. Ramana: Complications in the third world. Complications in Surgery by Schein et al (2013)

• B. Ramana: Asian abdominal emergencies. Common Sense Abdominal Emergency Surgery. Eds

Schein, Rogers, Rosin.

• B. Ramana: Book review- Surgical Gastroenterology by S. Haribhakti, 2014. J. Minimal Access Surg

• B. Ramana: Bile duct emergencies. Common Sense Abdominal Emergency Surgery. Springer (2010)

• B. Ramana. New surgical species. Gen. Surg. News (2007) doi: 10.1007/ s0026800792385

• B. Ramana. Organ Trade: the Iran Model. Nature India (2008) doi: 10.1038/nindia/2008.229

Scientific Chair, AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Keynote: "Risk taking in hernia surgery",  AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Lecture: "Frailty in AWR"

, AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Lecture: "The Core - It's not what you think"

, AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Lecture: "Adverse events in eTEP", eTEP Course, AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Lecture: "Problems with component separation", Fasciotens course, AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Operating faculty, Fasciotens course, AWR Deep Impact Surge, Chennai, India, March 2025

Keynote: "A new paradigm in giant hernia management:, ANZ Hernia Society annual meeting, Brisbane, Australia, August 2024

Lecture: “A paradigm shift in the management of giant incisional hernias”,  AWR Europe,

Ghent, Belgium, January 2024

Keynote: "Obesity and Hernia: exploring the complex ties", RACS Annual Surgical Conference, Christchurch May 2024

Lecture: "Why

extraperitoneal mesh?", Hernia Carnival, GEM Hospital, Chennai, India,  March 2024

Keynote: "A new paradigm in the management of giant hernias", YT Summit, Goa,

India,  April 2024

Keynote:  "Complex hernias: where are we headed?", 22nd annual conference of the

Japanese Hernia Society, Niigata, Japan, 

May 2024

Lecture: "The catastrophic abdomen",  Harvard MINT 2024, Boston, USA

September 2024

Lecture: "Is TAR on its way out?",  American Hernia Society meeting, Chicago, 

September 2024

Lecture: "Preperitoneal ventral hernia repair", 

Fasciotens annual meeting, Cologne,

Germany,

 September 2024

Lecture: "The Catastrophic Abdomen", 

AWR Obesity Conference, Surat, India, 

 November 2024

Lecture: "Fasciotens in hernia surgery:

 when and why", 

Updates in Hernia Surgery,

Medanta Medicity, Gurugram, India, 

November 2024

Operating faculty, AWR Workshop, Poona Surgical Society, Jupiter Hospital, Pune, India, 

January 2023

Operating faculty, IAGES (Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endoscopists and

Surgeons), Coimbatore, India, 

February 2023

Chief Operating Faculty, AWR Workshop, Kanpur Medical College, Kanpur, 

February 2023

Course Director,

"AWR: The Step Up" live operative hernia surgery workshop, RN Tagore

Hospital, Kolkata, 

February 2023

Invited faculty and speaker,

"Obesity and hernias"

OSSICON 20th National Conference,

Mumbai, India, 

March 2023

President, AWR Deep Impact, New Delhi 

March 2023

Course Director and live operating faculty, Fasciotens Course, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, AWR Deep Impact,

March 2023.

Other activities at AWR

Deep Impact, March, New Delhi, India

Lecture: "A Unique Index Case"

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Lecture: "Making ventral TAPP easier"

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Lecture:"eTEP complications"

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Lecture:"A Case with no legs to stand on"

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Lecture:"Open abdomen management"

Invited Speaker, Portuguese Surgical Society Annual Meeting,

"Mobility for surgeons", 

March 2023

Invited Speaker, SCMU Course, Bucharest,

"Abdominal wall optimization for proper

reconstruction"

March 2023

Faculty, live operative surgery for Fasciotens in complex incisional hernia, Haryana ASICON,

Rohtak, India, 

April 2023

Invited faculty, European Hernia Society, EHS Sitges Barcelona, Spain,

May 2023

Invited speaker,

"Hernias and vascular surgery"

,EHS Sitges Barcelona, Spain,

May 2023

Chairperson,

"Indications of robotic surgeries",

EHS Sitges Barcelona, Spain,

May 2023

Speaker,

"AI and volumetric analysis of hernias"

EHS Sitges Barcelona, Spain,

 May 2023

Speaker,

"The Mesh and the Machine", 

EHS Sitges Barcelona, Spain,

May 2023

Invited keynote speaker,

"The Incredible World of Hernias",

Global Surgeons' Summit, Vapi,

Gujarat, India,

 May 2023

Invited speaker,

"Open Abdomen Management": FALS Hernia, Wockhardt Hospital,

Mumbai, India,

May, 2023.

Keynote speaker,

"Choices, Change & Careers: A Surgeon’s Trifecta" 

Chennai Hernia Society, Chennai, 

 June 2023

Invited speaker,

"Avoiding Complications in Hernia Surgery"

Hisar, Haryana, India,

July 2023

Invited speaker and chair, Laparosurg 2023, Coimbatore, India

July 2023.

Participant, endoscopy hands-on training, Mohak Bariatrics and Robotic Surgery Centre,

Indore,  July 2023

Invited faculty, Cadaveric Workshop for Inguinal-Ventral and Complex Abdominal Wall

Repair, Asia IRCAD, Taiwan, 

August 2023

Operating faculty, Masterclass in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Rohtak, Haryana, India,

August 2023

Invited operating faculty, Annual Operative Workshop, Zen Hospital, Mumbai, India,

September 2023

Invited faculty, Harvard MINT 2023, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, September 2023

Invited faculty, Fasciotens workshop, 

Cologne, Germany, 

September 2023

Invited faculty, Romanian Hernia Days, Bucharest, Romania, 

 October 2023

Invited faculty, 

Swiss Hernia Days, Basel, Switzerland, 

 October 2023.