Sanjiv Dewan, MD, FACS

Clinical Interests

• Acute care surgery
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Laparoscopic repair of ventral/incisional and groin hernias
• Surgery of gall bladder and appendix
• Colonic and small bowel surgery for benign and malignant diseases

Research Interests

• General surgery outcomes
• Complication prevention in laparoscopic surgery
• Surgical education

Educational Background

• Residency, Surgery, Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1992
• Residency, Surgery, Detroit Macomb Hosp. Corp, Detroit, MI, 1988
• Residency, Surgery, Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1986
• Master's Degree, Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, 1978
• Residency, Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, 1978
• MB, BS, Government Medical College, Patiala, India, 1974
• Pre-Med, Biology, Government College, Rohtak, India, 1969

Certifications

• Surgery

Memberships

• American College of Surgeons
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
• American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin

Honors & Awards

Duodenal Ileus Presenting as Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Obstruction. The Australian and New Zealand journal of Surgery: Vol. 52, pp 512-515, 1982.

Oxygen Free Radical Scavengers in Preservation of Intestinal Villi in the presence of Ischemia. Transplantation