Dr. (Prof.) Amit Javed
Experience: Over 27 years
Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI)
Gurugram, India
Introduction
Dr. (Prof.) Amit Javed is the Principal Director and HOD of GI, GI Oncology, Minimal Access, and Bariatric Surgery at FMRI. People usually seek him out when things get complicated—like a fresh pancreatic cancer diagnosis, a stomach tumor that needs robotic extraction, or severe obesity requiring a metabolic reset. And he actually made national medical history a while back.
About Dr. (Prof.) Amit Javed
Dr. (Prof.) Amit Javed has spent a quarter of a century operating on the human digestive tract. He handles an incredibly high volume of work, independently doing over a thousand complex cases every single year. He went to the US, working as an Assistant Professor in abdominal transplant at UCSF and picking up highly specialized thoracic training at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.
He heavily relies on robotic and laparoscopic platforms. This means his patients bleed way less in the OR and get to go home much sooner. He performs sleeve gastrectomies and gastric bypasses specifically to reverse severe metabolic issues like type-2 diabetes. Before taking over the massive department at FMRI, he actually ran the GI surgery units at Fortis Shalimar Bagh, Vasant Kunj, and CK Birla Hospital.
Qualifications
- MBBS — Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.
- MS (General Surgery) — PGIMER, Chandigarh.
- MCh (Gastrointestinal Surgery) — AIIMS, New Delhi.
- FACS — American College of Surgeons, USA.
- Transplant Surgery Faculty — UCSF, USA.
- Thoracic Oncology Training — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
Awards & Recognition
- Principal Director & HOD of GI and Bariatric Surgery at FMRI.
- First in India to successfully perform a Whipple surgery on a 6-month pregnant woman.
- Performs over 1,000 complex GI and bariatric surgeries annually.
- Former Assistant Professor of Abdominal Transplant at UCSF.
- Previously headed GI Surgery departments at CK Birla Hospital and other Fortis branches.
- Member of IASG and IASGO.
Specialities & Expertise
- Robotic and minimal access GI surgery
- Whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer
- Gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy
- Esophageal and stomach cancer surgery
- Colorectal and hepatobiliary cancer resections
- Metabolic surgery for type-2 diabetes
Patient Experience & Approach
If you talk to his bariatric patients, they’ll tell you Dr. (Prof.) Amit Javed doesn’t treat weight loss surgery like a cosmetic thing. For families dealing with something as terrifying as pancreatic cancer, he actually sits down and breaks the massive Whipple procedure into plain English. His background at places like MSKCC and UCSF really shows up in the OR as he stays completely calm during cases where the margin for error is basically zero.