Dr. Vandana Soni
Experience: Over 35 years
Max Super Speciality Hospital
Gurugram, India
Introduction
Dr. Vandana Soni is the Principal Director of Laparoscopic, Robotic, and Bariatric Surgery across the Max Healthcare network. She is basically a massive pioneer in Indian medicine, widely celebrated as one of the very first female laparoscopic and bariatric surgeons in the entire country.
About Dr. Vandana Soni
With over thirty-five years in the surgical field, Dr. Vandana Soni has been exclusively practicing minimal access keyhole surgery since 1996, carving out a massive clinical footprint in what used to be a heavily male-dominated specialty.
Before helping build the massive surgical programs at Max Healthcare from the ground up, she spent vital years operating at the famous Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery Centre at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. She holds highly specialized, rare expertise in performing endoscopic scarless neck surgeries. Her incredibly strict safety record actually earned her the highly coveted “Surgeon of Excellence” award directly from the Surgical Review Corporation in the US.
Qualifications
- MBBS — University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), New Delhi.
- MS (General Surgery) — Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi.
Awards & Recognition
- Principal Director of Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgery at Max Healthcare.
- Awarded “Surgeon of Excellence” by the Surgical Review Corporation, USA.
- One of the first female laparoscopic and bariatric surgeons in India.
- Recipient of the Sri Raja Laxmi Ramachandran Trophy for exemplary devotion to duty.
- Previously served as a Consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
- Member of ELSA, OSSI, and the Asia Pacific Hernia Society.
Specialities & Expertise
- Bariatric and metabolic weight-loss surgery
- Robotic and laparoscopic GI surgery
- Endoscopic thyroid and parathyroid surgery
- Complex hernia repair
- Anti-reflux surgery for severe GERD
- Minimally invasive anorectal surgery
Patient Experience & Approach
Bariatric patients say Dr. Vandana Soni doesn’t treat weight loss surgery as a quick fix. Hernia patients who had failed repairs elsewhere say she explained why the earlier surgery didn’t hold and what she does differently with mesh placement and technique. Thirty-five years, and starting when almost no women were in the field, means she has operated through every phase of how minimal access surgery evolved in this country.