INTRODUCTION:

Dr. Rinkesh Kumar Bansal works as a consultant in the Fortis Memorial Research Institute’s gastroenterology and hepatobiliary sciences department in Gurugram. Since August 2017, he has been employed at this establishment. Before that, he worked from September 2015 to August 2017 as an Associate Consultant in Intervention Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology at the Institute of Digestive and Hepato Biliary Sciences, Medanta The Medicity, Pune. He is an expert in endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopy, and transplant hepatology.

Education

• MBBS – uhati medical College & Hospital, 2006
• MD – General Medicine – Sawai Mansingh Medical College, Jaipur (SMS College), 2011
• DNB – Gastroenterology – Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, 2014

Experience

• 2012 – 2015 Senior registrar at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi
• 2015 – 2015 Attending consultant at Fortis Escorts Liver and Digestive Disease Institute, New Delhi
• 2015 – 2017 Senior fellow and associate consultant at Institute of Digestive & Hepato-bilary Sciences, Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram
• 2017 – 2019 consultant at Gastroenterology & Hepato-biliary sciences, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram
• 2020 – 2020 Senior Consultant at Gastroenterology & Hepato-biliary sciences, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram.

Awards and Recognitions

• Paper titled as “Comparison of Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine needle aspiration by capillary action, suction and no suction methods: A Randomized blinded study” selected for best abstract award at Endo 2017 in Hyderabad – 2017
• Paper titled as “Is treatment of hepatic dystrophy with bisphosphonate is possible” selected for International travel award at the International disease digestive week 2015 in Hongkong. – 2015
• Got second award in oral presentation as first author titled “Yield of EUS guided fine needle aspiration of unresectable hilum mass- A single center experience” in X Oncology update at Delhi in April 2014 – 2014
• Paper titled as “Endoscopic Management of Post Liver Transplant Biliary Complications: A Prospective Study from Tertiary Centre in India” selected for national travel award at the Indian national association of liver diseases (INASL) 2014 in Jaipur – 2014
• Paper titled as “A Study of profile of Hepatic dystrophy in patients with liver cirrhosis and effect of bisphosphonate supplementation” selected for national travel award at the Indian national association of liver diseases (INASL) 2013 in Hyderabad. – 2013
• Paper titled as “Assessment of liver stiffness measurement in patients with chronic liver disease: comparison between M and XL probe of FibroScan” selected for International travel award at the Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand – 2012

Memberships

• American association of Gastroenterology (ASGE)
• Indian Society of Gastroenterology
• Indian national association for study of liver (INASL
• Indian Medical Association (IMA)