Dr Karthik Chandra Vallam

About Doctor :

Expertise :

• Gastrointestinal Cancers
• Robotic and Laparoscopic Oncosurgery
• Breast Conservation & Oncoplastic Surgeries
• Sentinel Node Biopsy
• Lung and Mediastinal Cancers
• Urological Cancers
• Gynaecological Cancers
• Head and Neck Cancers
• Limb Salvage Surgery

Past Experience :

• CONSULTANT SURGICAL ONCOLOGIST at Medicover Cancer Hospital, Visakhapatnam from June 2022 till date
• CONSULTANT SURGICAL ONCOLOGIST at Apollo Cancer Centres, Visakhapatnam from November 2020 to June 2022
• CONSULTANT SURGICAL ONCOLOGIST at Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Visakhapatnam from September 2015 till November 2020.
• SPECIALIST SURGICAL REGISTRAR in Surgical Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.(1st August 2014 to 31st July 2015)
• One year experience as REGISTRAR in SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Department at Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital and Research institute, Visakhapatnam May 2010 to May 2011

Awards & Achievements :

• First Robotic surgeon from Andhra Pradesh
• Pioneer in minimal access cancer surgery
• Received travel scholarships from ESMO (European Society of Surgical Oncology) and British Society of Gastroenterology for his award-winning paper presentations.
• Invited as faculty at various international, national and state conferences and has delivered various lectures and surgical video demonstrations in these forums

Publications :

• Recurrent abdominal wall Dermatofibrosarcomaprotuberans in a child: a challenging reconstruction” – Springer Open Journal 2015
• High nodal positivity rates even in good clinical responders after chemoradiation in rectal cancer – is organ preservation feasible? published in “Colorectal Disease” journal in September 2015
• "Adenocarcinoma of the Rectum-A Composite of Three Different Subtypes with Varying Outcomes?” In journal Clinical Colorectal Cancer in December 2015
“Restaging after neoadjuvantchemoradiation in rectal cancers: is histology the key in patient selection?” in ‘Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology” in January 2016.  
• “Utility of pet-ct scan for evaluating raising CEA levels after surgical resection of colorectal cancer” Accepted for publication in the journal “ Colorectal diseases” in April 2017
“Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection—Are we ready to bridge the gap between the West and the East? – Editorial in Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery 2017  
• “Cancer of the Pancreas” – first author of book chapter published in “A Text Book of Clinical Oncology in the Indian Context” (Chief editor Dr Suresh Sanchetee)
• Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. CovidSurg Collaborative. Anaesthesia, 76: 748-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15458  
• COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. Br J Surg. 2021 Mar 24:znab101. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab101. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33761533; PMCID: PMC7995808.
• COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborative. Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Aug 9. doi: 10.1111/anae.15560. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34371522.
• COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Aug 24. doi: 10.1111/anae.15563. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34428858.  
• Vallam KC, Alluri V, Voonna M. Early adhesive colonic obstruction post-radical gastrectomy – Do not forget the pancreas. J Med Evid DOI: 10.4103/JME.JME_141_20 (Epub ahead of print)
• Book chapter : “Robotic Radical Hysterectomy” in the book “Robotic Gynecologic Surgery” (Thieme publications – Anupama Bhaskar et al )"

Languages :

• English
• తెలుగు
• हिन्दी