Dr. Vikas K Agrawal

M.S. FCPS, DORL, USMLE, MBBS , Past president of IASSA

  • Director, Specialty ENT Hospital, Satyam Tower, Thakur Complex, Kandivali east, Mumbai, 400101.
  • Robotic Sleep Apnea Surgeon, Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai
  • Visiting ENT Consultant, Seven Hills Hospital, BSES MG Hosp, Mumbai.
  • President, Indian Association of Surgeons for Sleep Apnea (IASSA)
  • Special interests – Snoring And Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Professional Voice, Coblation Technology, And Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Pioneer

  • Performed the first Robotic Base Tongue Surgery for OSA in India
  • Performed the first Live Robotic base tongue surgery workshop in the world, attended by 165 ENT surgeons physically and 2000 on web, July 2013
  • Discovered the role of salpingopharyngopharyngeal fold in lateral collapse  in OSA , first presented at the world congress on Sleep Apnea, Rome 2012 Apneagraph analysis for OSA in India.
  • Performed the first Submucosal Endoscopic Tongue Base Resection in Asia for Severe Sleep Apnea, new method called SMELL, presented at the world congress on Sleep apnea, Rome 2012
  • Pioneer in Coblation Surgery in Mumbai
  • Drug Induced Sleep Endoscopy in Mumbai
  • Stroboscopy in  western Mumbai

Original Research

  • Dynamic Laryngeal Surgery-A New Concept in Laryngeal Surgery, presented at the 4th World Voice Congress, Seoul, September,2010
  • 3 Cut Technique,-A New Solution For Medialization Of The Middle Turbinate, presented at the Maharashtra state ENT Conference, 2010
  • Role of Salpingopharyngeal Folds in Lateral Pharyngeal Collapse; discovered first in the world and presented at the world congress on Sleep Apnea, ROME 2012
  • SMELL (Submucosal Midline Endoscopic Lingual Base Lysis), a new method for reduction of base tongue in OSA—-Original paper presented at the world congress on sleep apnea ,Rome 2012

Awards

  • Best Paper Award – All India Phonosurgery Conference, Jan, 2009-Stroboscopic analysis of vocal nodules, soft versus hard, first study in India.
  • Best Paper Award – Maharashtra state ENT Conference -2010-Dynamic Laryngeal Surgery-A New Concept in Laryngeal Surgery
  • Best Video award-Maharashtra state ENT Conference -2010- 3 Cut Technique, A New Solution for Medialization of the Middle Turbinate.

Faculty position

International

  • IFOS world congress -Seoul, S.Korea, june 2013
  • WASM(world association of Sleep Medicine) Conference at Spain,2013
  • 4th Asia sleep surgery course, Singapore,2013
  • Asian Pediatric Otolaryngology Congress, Singapore ,April 2011
  • State  ENT Conference, CIXI,China,june 2011

National

  • Various national and state level Conferences and workshops
  • International workshop on Coblation Technology In ENT, Jan 2011, Mumbai
  • National Workshop on Voice disorders, May 2010, Mumbai.
  • International workshop on “Larynx and Beyond”-  Medanta,,New Delhi,May,2011 , ENT LIVE -2014
  • All India Phonosurgery Conference—-2009 through 2013
  • 1st national Conference on OSA by IASSA (Indian Association of Surgeons for Sleep Apnea),Chennai, 2013.
  • Operating faculty-Rajasthan State ENT Conference-2011,Gujrat State ENT Conference 2011,Vidarbha ENT Conference 2011,Tamilnadu state ENT Conference2012,southzone ENT Conference2012, Maharastra state ENT Conference 2012,Medicity OSA course, Hyderabad,2012,Bihar state ENT Conference 2012,Rhinocon 2012,Delhi,west Bengal state ENT conf, 2012
  • All India ENT Conference, 2012, Allahabad ,2013,Pune,mysore,2014
  • International Conference  on voice and OSA ,Mumbai ,2012
  • AOI midterm  national CME, Ujjain, 2012.
  • Indian Medical Association -Maharashtra state Conference, 2009, 2010
  • Workshops, Lectures, presentations, quiz-Numerous at national, state and city levels

Associate Editor

  • International journal of Phonosurgery and Laryngology by the Association of Phonosurgeons of India.

Fellowships:

  • Trans oral Robotic surgery training – IRCAD, Strasbourg, France.
  • Visiting Fellowship  in sleep apnea – Eurosleep, Norway with Dr Magne Tvinnerreim.
  • Experience after post graduation– 12 years and 3500 plus surgeries in ENT

Academic positions -

  • 41, male, DOB-oct.6th, 1971
  • M.S.(ENT)- Seth G.S. Med College & KEM Hosp, Mumbai-2001
  • Senior Registrar-Dept. of Head-neck surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital-2002
  • Set up Specialty ENT Hosp, Mumbai-2003-till date

Memberships

  • Indian Sleep Disorders Association(ISDA)
  • President elect and Founder Governing body member – IASSA-Indian association of surgeons for sleep apnea.
  • National Executive Comm Member, Association of Phonosurgeons of India.
  • Ex. Secretary, Association of Otolaryngologists of India, Mumbai w.
  • Association of Otolaryngologists of India, Mumbai
  • Indian Medical Association, Mumbai west