About

Dr. Balasubramaniam Ramana is a senior surgeon specialising in hernia and bariatric surgery and has been a general and advanced laparoscopic surgeon for more than three decades. He is the Founder and President of the AWR Surgeons Community, a group that has revolutionised modern hernia surgery in India and other countries.

He also holds privileges in Belle Vue Clinic in Kolkata. He visits Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi as an AWR specialist in the department of IMAS and does very complex procedures there. In the field of AWR, Dr. Ramana travels extensively across India and the world and conducts workshops, courses, and conferences for surgeons of all levels. Among the cities, he operates regularly are Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Amritsar, Lucknow, and Ahmedabad.

He is the pioneer of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction in India and is part of the first global group of surgeons publishing the results of the eTEP retro muscular repairs. In fact, he has been the first to perform virtually every novel hernia operation that is currently in vogue in India.

Among advanced lap procedures, his experience has spanned surgeries on esophagus, stomach, pancreas, biliary system, colorectal and even other specialities like urology and gynaecology (in the past).

Dr. Ramana is known to be frank and honest in all his dealings with patients and others and treats patients with kindness and consideration. He considers as his main asset the trust he has commanded in his long associations with surgeons at all levels as well as thousands of patients.

Membership

Founder – President, AWR Surgeons Community

Founder – Trustee, IBC Asia-Pacific Trust

President – IBC Asia-Pacific region, International Bariatric Club | Chairman – IBC Academy

Affiliation

European Hernia Society

Americas Hernia Society

Society of America Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)

British Hernia Society

AWR Surgeons Community

American College of Surgeons

Asia-Pacific Hernia Society

American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)

International Bariatric Club

Hernia Society of India

Obesity Surgery Society of India

Association of Surgeons of India

Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

Indian Medical Association

Publications

Author of chapter, along with Michael Rosen, on “Complex hernias: an overview” in “Surgical Gastroenterology”, 3rd edition, under publication

Ramana, B. & Dube, B. The Issues of Post¬Lichtenstein Chronic Groin Pain. World J. Surg. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268¬021¬05977¬w, 2021

Gandhi, J., Churiwala, J. J & Ramana, B. AWR (Hernia) Surgery in India: an Update. Ind. J. Surg. doi: 10.1007/s12262¬021¬02731¬3 (2021)

Ramana, B., Arora, E. & Belyansky, I. Signs and landmarks in eTEP RivesStoppa repair of ventral hernias. Hernia (2020). doi:10.1007/s10029020022164

Chapter author on "Safety in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction procedures", Editor Om Tantia, book under print

Acronyms in abdominal wall reconstruction, introduction to a new language. World J Surg. doi: 10.1007/s002680 19052216, 2019

Loss of Domain: going beyond the Stewart test. World J. Surg. doi:10.1007/s00268019053035, 2019

Ramana B, Concomitant bariatric surgery and component separation: historic advance or blunder? J. Min. Access Surg., 2018

Author of chapter on “Loss of domain” in “Surgical Gastroenterology”, Haribhakti S, 3rd edition.

Author of chapter on “Epigastric, paraumbilical, lumbar and incisional hernias” in “Surgical Gastroenterology”, Haribhakti S, 3rd edition.

Concomitant bariatric surgery and component separation: historic advance or blunder?.J. Min. Access Surg. (2018)

A novel approach using the enhanced-view totally extraperitoneal (e-TEP) technique for laparoscopic retromuscular hernia repair”, I. Belyansky, J. Daes, V. Gheorghe Radu, R. Balasubramanian, H. Reza Zahiri, A. S. Weltz, U. S. Sibia, A. Park, Y. Novitsky

Suprapubic Incisional Hernias: is open surgery a standard? World J. Surg. (2017)

Chapter: ‘Robotics in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction”. Monograph on Robotics & SILS, Max Healthcare, New Delhi, India (2017)

Bariatric surgery in developing countries. www.ibcclub.org

Radical Laparoscopic Treatment of Hepatic Hydatidosis. World J. Surg. (2013)

Henna as a preoperative marker. World J. Surg. (2011)

Laparoscopy in Abdominal Tuberculosis. World J. Surg. (2011)

Malaria: Who is at fault? World J. Surg. (2007) doi: 10.1007/s00268-007-9238-5

Modified technique of laparoscopic intraperitoneal ernioplasty for irreducible scrotal hernias. World J. Surg. (2007) doi : 10.1007/s00268-007-9097-0

The physiologic basis of surgery. World J. Surg. (2007) doi: 10.1007/ s00268-007-9435-2

Chapter: Complications in the third world. Complications in Surgery by Schein et al (2013)

Chapter: Asian abdominal emergencies. Common Sense Abdominal Emergency Surgery. Eds Schein, Rogers, Rosin.

Book review: ‘Surgical Gastroenterology’, 2nd edition, S. Haribhakti, 2014. J. Minimal Access Surg.

Chapter: Bile duct emergencies. Common Sense Abdominal Emergency Surgery’. Springer (2010)

New surgical species. Gen. Surg. News (2007) doi: 10.1007/s00268-007-9238-5

Organ Trade: the Iran Model. Nature India (2008) doi: 10.1038/nindia/2008.229