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Dr. Sundeep Lakhatakia

India

Dr. Sundeep Lakhtakia is the Director of Endoscopy & EUS at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG Hospitals), Hyderabad, India, with a focus on clinical gastroenterology and endoscopic interventions. He completed his MBBS at Maulana Azad Medical College, his MD in Internal Medicine at PGIMER, Chandigarh, and his DM in Gastroenterology at SGPGIMS, Lucknow.

He is the current President of the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India (SGEI), having previously served three years as Secretary General, and is vice-chairman of the International Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and a steering committee member of the Asian EUS Group.

He has over 170 original publications and several book chapters, has co-authored guidelines on pancreato-biliary EUS and endoscopy in Asia and Europe, and is a frequent invited expert at major endoscopy conferences. His honours include the Young Investigator Award at Asia Pacific Digestive Week (2006) and fellowships of the ASGE (2014), American College of Gastroenterology (2020) and Japanese Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2021). He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has been a visiting professor at the University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar since 2016.