He is extensively trained in Gastrointestinal Hepatobiliary Oncosurgery in India and aboard in U. K. over 10 years. He is currently practicing as a senior surgeon with special interest in advanced laparoscopic surgery in the field of liver, pancreas and gastro oncosurgery. Dr. Chakrabarti has recently started performing laparoscopic bariatric surgery and carrying out surgical weight loss program in Columbia Asia Hospital, Kolkata. 4 successful patients have been treated including 1 NRI patient. His Present Positions are: Consultant: Columbia Asia Hospital, Salt Lake joined Columbia Asia Hospital, Salt Lake, Kolkata, as a visiting consultant performing bariatric surgery in surgical weight losing program. Consultant surgeon & HOD-Surgery Amri Hoospital, Salt Lake. Visiting surgeon : Sri Aurobindo Seva Kendra (EEDF), Jodhpur Park, KolkataHis total experience is more than 25 years in the fields of surgery. He has been associated with various hospitals and clinics in India and also at the UK. He has also been a part of teaching fraternity. During his post-graduate residentship in India, he used to teach the medical students and the SHOs. This was a part of his official training program for M. S. In his present job I regularly teach medical students. He has also attended the following Courses: 1)Intensive Fellowship Course in Surgery - Dudley Road Hospital2)Radiation Protection course - QE Hospital3)Basic Laparoscopic Skills in Laparoscopic Surgery 1995 - Manor Hospital4)Vascular Anastomosis workshop 1996 - Newport (best candidate prize)5)ASGBI annual conference 1996 - Glasgow6)8th Annual Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Course Feb 1997 - Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital, Liverpool 7)Advanced Laparoscopic Course 1997 - Leeds Institute of Minimally Invasive Therapy, Leeds. 8)6th Liverpool Hepatobiliary Masterclass-HPB 2000-Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool 9)Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Workshop On Solid Organs- J&J, Ethicon Endosurgery, New Delhi. 2009Publications & Other Academic Activities: Co-author of scientific short papers presented in Autumn 97 meeting of West Midlands Surgical Society held at Sandwell district General Hospital. "Hyperthermic Isolated Regional Limb Perfusion for Melanoma - Why Bother?"Dissertation submitted at the end of the M. S. course in 1991 entitled Clinicopathological study of Thyroid Carcinoma (20 cases)" accepted at the University of Calcutta, 1991Attending seminar courses, clinical meetings, journal clubs and presenting cases and papers were an integral part of the postgraduate training. Presented clinical surgical audit for Mr. R. P. Grimley's firm at Wordsley Hospital. Presented the hernia audit at Dudley Road Hospital (survey conducted by Royal College of Surgeons), Jan 1993Life Member Of AMASICONMember Of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association(IHPBA). . . You can get the phone number of Dr. Sandip Chakrabarti on Timesmed. com.