Dr. Sabyasachi bal - Director in Delhi, Delhi, India
Dr S Bal is the Director of the department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Surgical Oncology at Fortis, Vasant Kunj and Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon. Dr Bal, is an alumnus of AIIMS, New Delhi and was, till 2005, an Additional Professor of Surgery and Consultant Thoracic Surgery and Chief of the Lung Cancer and other thoracic malignancies Clinic at his alma mater, the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is a former fellow of the internationally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre at New York and a Senior Registrar at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, London.He has trained in Thoracic surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi and in the UK at the South West Regional Thoracic Surgery Unit at Bristol and at the Brompton Chest Hospital, London. He has been a clinical research fellow at University of Leicester, UK in Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema; which he has pioneered in India. Dr Bal is also one of the pioneers in diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopic procedures and today, the department gets referrals from all over North, East and North-East India. He is a member of many surgical societies in India, USA, UK and Japan and has numerous peer reviewed scientific publications and awards to his credit including the Norman Tanner Best Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK), the Japanese Surgical Society Award in 1996 & 1997, the Varoon Mahajan Fellowship of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA, the Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship to Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, UK and the Best Paper Award of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology in 2002.
Membership & Certificates
- Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)
- Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
- Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
- Indian Association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons (IACTS)
- Japan Society of Surgery
- British Surgical Stapling Group, UKIndian Hernia Society
- Society for Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, New Delhi, India
Awards and Honours
- 2013 – Invited Faculty , 1St Asian Masters Conference in Minimal Access Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai, China Proctor in VATS Lung and Thymic Resections, Kolkata University, PGIMER & SSKM Hospital 2015 Proctor in VATS Esophageal Resection, Government Hospital, Aizawl, Mizoram 2015 Invited Faculty, ATEP Mumbai and Thoracic Masterclass, Hyderabad 2015
- 2002 & 2011 – Best Paper Award in Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
- 2000-2001 – Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship, Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, UK
- 1999 – Varoon Mahajan Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA
- 1996 – Japanese Surgical Society Award for Complex resections in Thyroid Cancer, Kobe, Japan
- 1995 – Japanese Surgical Society Award for Extended resections in Rectal Cancer, Nagoya
- 1990 – Norman Tanner Best Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK)
- 1981 – V Ramalingaswami Prize for Best Intern , AIIMS, New Delhi1980 – Best Undergraduate Student in Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi
