Name Dr. Kalayarasan Raja Date of Birth 31-05-1981 Designation Associate Professor Department Surgical Gastroenterology Tel.No . (Office) +91 413 -2297365 Mobile number +91 9843015499 E-mail Address kalayarasanraja@yahoo.com Address (Office) Room No 5442, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Fourth Floor, Superspeciality Block, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry (Puducherry) - 605006, INDIA CURRENT POSITION Since July 2017 – Associate Professor Department of Surgical Gastroenterology Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION 07/1998-12/2002 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India 04/2004-03/2007 Master of Surgery (M.S.), General Surgery Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India 2008 – Diplomate in National Board (DNB), General surgery 08/2009-07/2012 Magister Chirurgiae (M.Ch.), Gastrointestinal Surgery GB Pant Hospital & Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India 02/2013-04/2013 Fellowship in liver surgery and transplantation Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea 04/2013-05/2013 Fellowship in colorectal surgery Asan Medical center, Seoul, Korea HONORS, AWARDS 6/1999 First class with distinction, first MBBS Examination JIPMER, Puducherry, India 12/2000 First class with distinction, second MBBS Examination JIPMER, Puducherry, India 12/2001 First class with distinction, final MBBS Examination-I JIPMER, Puducherry, India 12/2001 South Arcot CSMS Gold medal for scoring highest marks in Ophthalmology, final MBBS Examination-I, JIPMER, Puducherry, India 12/2002 First class with distinction, final MBBS Examination-II JIPMER, Puducherry, India 01/2005 Research Grant Department of science, technology and environment for the research project “Estrogen and Progesterone receptors in Esophageal Carcinoma” 10/2006 Best Oral paper Award “Estrogen and Progesterone receptors in Esophageal Carcinoma”. 16th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lucknow, India 03/2007 Balakrishna Rao Gold medal, MS General Surgery JIPMER, Puducherry, India 03/2007 S.C Mitra and Geeta Mitra Endowment prize, MS General Surgery JIPMER, Puducherry, India 03/2007 S. B. Sen Memorial Gold medal, MS General Surgery JIPMER, Puducherry, India 10/2010 Travel Bursary 20th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India 07/2012 Educational Grant From IHPBA India, to attend the 10th International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary association (IHPBA) world congress, Paris, France 10/2012 Best Oral paper (biliary) Award “Role of staging laparoscopy in primary gall bladder cancer: An analysis of 409 patients”. 22nd Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Bangalore, India 10/2012 Second Prize, Poster (biliary) “Gall bladder cancer management impacted by coexistent tuberculosis”. 22nd Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Bangalore, India 10/2012 Best E video (biliary) “Laparoscopic radical cholecystectomy for Gallbladder cancer”. 22nd Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Bangalore, India 10/2013 Second Prize, Poster (Miscellaneous) “Acute on chronic EHPVO: Distinct clinical entity”.