Dr. Shanker Pasupathy

Dr Shanker Pasupathy is a senior consultant general surgeon with a special interest in gastrointestinal endoscopy, acid reflux, hernia, gallstones and weight-loss (bariatric) surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

He was formerly the director of the LIFE Centre and senior consultant and chief of the metabolic-bariatric surgery service at the Department of Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery, Singapore General Hospital.

He obtained his medical degree from the National University of Singapore and then underwent higher training in gastro-intestinal and vascular surgery in the UK, France and Germany. He completed a one-year fellowship in “Advanced laparoscopy and robotic surgery” at the IRCAD (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l’Appareil Digestif) and obtained a Diploma in Laparoscopic Surgery from Université Louis-Pasteur Strasbourg 1 in 2007.

Same-day surgery for gallstones

Keyhole surgery for all types of abdominal hernia

Investigation and treatment of acid reflux and GERD

Paraesophageal, hiatal and diaphragmatic hernia repair

Anti-reflux fundoplication (Nissen, Toupet, Dor, etc)

Medical weight loss treatment

Vertical sleeve gastrectomy, gastric band and bypass for weight loss

Endoscopic balloon therapy for weight loss

LINX magnetic sphincter augmentation for GERD

Elipse swallowable gastric balloon

Endoscopic Stomach Gastroplasty (ESG)

Fast-track surgery

Robotic surgery

Selected publications below. For a full list, please go to pubmed.

• Effectiveness of bariatric surgery in diabetes prevention in high-risk Asian individuals. Lee PC, Tan HC, Pasupathy S, Ganguly S, Eng AKH, Nadkarni N, Tham KW. Singapore Med J. 2018 Sep;59(9):472-475.
• Impact of bariatric surgery on the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Singapore. Lee PC, Tham KW, Tan HC, Pasupathy S. Singapore Med J. 2013 Jul;54(7):382-6.
• Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a novel procedure for weight loss. Lee SY, Lim CH, Pasupathy S, Poopalalingam R, Tham KW, Ganguly S, Wai CH, Wong WK. Singapore Med J. 2011 Nov;52(11):794-800.
• “Laparoscopic Collis Gastroplasty” Shanker Pasupathy, Bernard Dallemagne. Book chapter in ‘International Principles of Laparoscopic Surgery’ Edited by Eldo Frezza, Michel Gagner, Michael Li; Cine-Med Publishing © 2010
• “Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair” Silvana Perretta, Shanker Pasupathy, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux. Book chapter in ‘International Principles of Laparoscopic Surgery’ Edited by Eldo Frezza, Michel Gagner, Michael Li; Cine-Med Publishing © 2010

• Challenges and lessons learned from NOTES cholecystectomy initial experience: a stepwise approach from the laboratory to clinical application. Asakuma M, Perretta S, Allemann P, Cahill R, Con SA, Solano C, Pasupathy S, Mutter D, Dallemagne B, Marescaux J. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg. 2009;16(3):249-54.
• Effects of warm-up on exercise capacity, platelet activation and platelet-leucocyte aggregation in patients with claudication. Pasupathy S, Naseem KM, Homer-Vanniasinkam S. Br J Surg. 2005 Jan;92(1):50-5.

• Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) Academic Year 2011/2012
• Registrar’s Prize (Gold Medal), Leeds Regional Surgical Club 2004
• Overseas Research Fellowship, National Medical Research Council Singapore 2003

Past president of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia Singapore

Past president of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of Singapore

Member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)

Visiting Professor at the Asian Institute of Telesurgery (AITS), Taiwan