Dr Muffazal Lakdawala (Dr Muffi) is the co-founder of Digestive Health Institute and currently serving as the director of “Department of General Surgery and Minimal Access Surgical Sciences” at “H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital”, Mumbai. His surgical expertise spans the Gastro-Intestinal (GI) area and includes GI Oncology Surgeries as well. He is the Hon. Surgeon to the Vice President of India. He is a laparoscopic GI & Bariatric Surgeon with over 20 years of experience. He is the co-founder of “The Digestive Health Institute” based in Worli, Mumbai which is the 1st Bariatric Centre in India to have received “The Center of Excellence Award” in 2009 from “The Surgical Review Corporation USA”. “The Digestive Health Institute” has been the “#No-1 Bariatric Centre in Mumbai” for 4 consecutive years (2017 to 2020) by “The Times Health Survey”. Dr. Lakdawala has been awarded with the title of “Best Surgeon in the World, 2019” by the “American society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery”. In the same year, 2019, he was also awarded the “Illustrious IFSO World Educator” title by “International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders”. He has been awarded an honorary membership by the Korean, Japanese and Chinese Society of Surgery. He is the first bariatric surgeon in India to adopt the most advanced IV Gen Xi Robotic System. For which he has undergone robotic training from “Advent Health Celebration (Orlando, Florida)”. Currently, Dr Muffi offers robotic surgery for GI and Bariatric procedures at Sir HN Hospital Mumbai to his patients. A graduate of the prestigious Grant Medical College in Mumbai, he earned his Masters in Surgery from BYL Nair Hospital. He went to train further in Bariatric Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio and at the University of Ghent Hospital in Belgium; he has also trained in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Surgery in Seoul, Korea. And has many scientific publications to his credits.
Selected publications from PubMed
Expert Consensus on Obesity Management Protocols - A Joint Position Statement by Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India (OSSI) and Endocrine Society of India (ESI).
Bhasker AG, Kapoor N, Baig S, Parmar C, Shaikh S, Wadhawan R, Shah S, Kotwal N, Harikumar K, Das S, Baro A, Katakwar A, Unnikrishnan AG, Shaikh A, Mithal A, Monteiro AS, Shrivastava A, Pradhan A, Prasad A, Vashishtha A, Anne B, Kulshreshtha B, Selvan C, Goel D, Priya G, Jammu GS, Phatale H, Maisnam I, Khare J, Pandit K, Agarwal K, Kona L, Kular KS, Nagendra L, Kopalle LN, Goel M, Narwaria M, Baijal M, Khaitan M, Motwani M, Ismail M, Shenoy MT, Bhandari M, Lakdawala M, Dukkipati N, Raizada N, Lal P, Shah PS, Chowbey P, Palanivelu PR, Narayan P, Bharath R, Santosh R, Jindal R, Palaniappan R, Khullar R, Rajput R, Walia R, Goel R, Jaiswal R, Madhu SV, Mittal S, Lodha S, Aggarwal S, Julka S, Kalra S, Bhattacharya S, Bajaj S, Joshi S, Shah S, Dhorepatil S, Ghosh S, Saggu SS, Kumar Kota S, Mishra S, Ugale S, Jindal S, Lathia T, Lotwala V, Khatri V, Bindal V
Obes Surg. 2026 Sep;36(9):4961-4982 doi: 10.1007/s11695-026-08870-4.
Treatment Algorithm for Patients with Obesity in India: A Joint Consensus by Endocrine Society of India and Obesity Surgeons Society of India.
Baig SJ, Bhaskar AG, Parmar C, Wadhawan R, Shah S, Shaikh S, Kapoor N, Das S, Harikumar K, Kotwal N, Baro A, Katakwar A, Unnikrishnan AG, Shaikh A, Mithal A, Monteiro AS, Shrivastava A, Pradhan A, Prasad A, Vashistha A, Anne B, Kulshreshtha B, Selvan C, Goel D, Priya G, Jammu GS, Phatale H, Maisnam I, Khare J, Pandit K, Agarwal K, Lakshmi K, Kular K, Nagendra L, Kopalle LN, Goel M, Narwaria M, Baijal M, Khaitan M, Motwani M, Ismail M, Shenoy MT, Bhandari M, Lakdawala M, Dukkipati N, Raizada N, Lal P, Shah P, Chowbey P, Palanivelu PR, Narayanan P, Bharath R, Santosh R, Jindal R, Palaniappan R, Khullar R, Rajput R, Walia R, Goel R, Jaiswal R, Madhu SV, Mittal S, Lodha S, Aggarwal S, Julka S, Kalra S, Bhattacharya S, Bajaj S, Joshi S, Shah S, Dhorepatil S, Ghosh S, Saggu SS, Kota SK, Mishra S, Ugale S, Jindal S, Lathia T, Lotwala V, Khatri V, Bindal V
Obes Surg. 2026 May;36(5):2534-2544 doi: 10.1007/s11695-026-08669-3.
Factors Predicting Variability in Total Small Bowel Length (TSBL) in People With Obesity Undergoing Metabolic Bariatric Surgery.
Lakdawala M, Unadkat P, Parmar C, Gandhi N, Rai S, Greve JW
Obes Surg. 2026 Apr;36(4):1590-1597 doi: 10.1007/s11695-026-08545-0.
International Federation for the Surgery and Other Therapies for Obesity (IFSO) global consensus recommendations for optimizing outcomes after sleeve gastrectomy.
Cohen RV, Kermansaravi M, Levinson R, Lakdawala M, Parmar C, Seki Y, Prager G, Salminen P, members of the Global Consensus Recommendations for Optimizing Outcomes after Sleeve Gastrectomy
Br J Surg. 2025 Oct 3;112(10) pii: znaf188. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znaf188.
International expert consensus on the current status and future prospects of artificial intelligence in metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Kermansaravi M, Chiappetta S, Shahabi Shahmiri S, Varas J, Parmar C, Lee Y, Dang JT, Shabbir A, Hashimoto D, Davarpanah Jazi AH, Meireles OR, Aarts E, Almomani H, Alqahtani A, Aminian A, Behrens E, Birk D, Cantu FJ, Cohen RV, De Luca M, Di Lorenzo N, Dillemans B, ElFawal MH, Felsenreich DM, Gagner M, Galvan HG, Galvani C, Gawdat K, Ghanem OM, Haddad A, Himpens J, Kasama K, Kassir R, Khoursheed M, Khwaja H, Kow L, Lainas P, Lakdawala M, Tello RL, Mahawar K, Marchesini C, Masrur MA, Meza C, Musella M, Nimeri A, Noel P, Palermo M, Pazouki A, Ponce J, Prager G, Quiróz-Guadarrama CD, Rheinwalt KP, Rodriguez JG, Saber AA, Salminen P, Shikora SA, Stenberg E, Stier CK, Suter M, Szomstein S, Taskin HE, Vilallonga R, Wafa A, Yang W, Zorron R, Torres A, Kroh M, Zundel N
Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 18;15(1):9312 doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-94335-0.
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