Succession list of the head of the departments of Surgery

Sl.No.	Name	Year
1	Prof. N.Balsalam	1963-65
2	Prof. K.J Jacob	1965-70
3	Prof. Mathew Varughese	1970-73
4	Prof. K.J Jacob	1973-80
5	Prof. Mathew Varughese	1980-86
6	Prof. V.O Poulose	1987-89
7	Prof. P.J James	1989-90
8	Prof. Chacko Valayil	1990-92
9	Prof. P.G.R Pillai	1992-94
10	Prof. K.Shankaran	1995-96
11	Prof. K.N.Vijayan	1996
12	Prof. V.G Appukuttan	1996-98
13	Prof. S.Vaidyanatha	1998-2001
14	Prof. R Dayananda Babu	2001-04
15	Prof. Jacob.P.Thomas	2004- 15
16	Prof. John S Kurien	2015 – 2019
17	Dr. V. Anil Kumar	2019 march-2019 July
18	Dr. M. N. Sasikumar	2019 August-2021 April
19	Dr. Jose Gamalial	2021 May
20	Dr. S. Sunil	2021 June-2021 August
21	Dr. V. Anil Kumar	2021 September-Continuing

Teaching Staff

Sl. No.	NAME	DESIGNATION
1	Dr.S.Sunil	Professor & HOD
2	Dr.Rajesh.P.S	Addl.Professor
3	Dr. Sam Christy Mammen	Professor(CAP)
4	Dr. Renjin R P	Asso.Professor
5	Dr.Jeji.G	Asst.Professor
6	Dr.Sansho.E.U	Professor (CAP)
7	Dr. Jos V Stanley	Asst.Professor
8	Dr.Sandeep AbrahamVarghes	Asso.Professor
9	Dr. Jithesh Chandran	Asst.Professor
10	Dr. Jomine Jose	Asst.Professor
11	Dr. Arun Srinivas	Asst.Professor
12	Dr.Tom Thomas Kattoor	Asst.Professor
13	Dr Anish A V	Asst.Professor
14	Dr Anup Paul Varkey	Asst.Professor
15	Dr Manoop B	Asst.Professor
16	Dr. Arun Sebastian	Asst.Professor

Non-Teaching Staff

Sl. No.	NAME	DESIGNATION
1	Shajeela S N	Confidential Assistant
2	R. Sunilkumar	Junior Lab Assistant

Courses run by the Department

Name of Course	Annual intake
M.B.B.S	175
M.S	12

Exclusively for the Dept. of Surgery

Patient care facilities available

• Availability of surgical experts including senior and junior consultants, senior and junior residents and house surgeons round the clock.
• Bed strength of 249 beds with separate male and female, general and post operative wards with current bed occupancy rate of over 100%.
• Full fledged surgical intensive care unit (18 bedded) with ventilators as well as invasive and non-invasive patient monitoring facilities.
• Full fledged theatre complex with 3 major theatres and 1 minor theatre functioning 6 days a week.
• Regular Laparoscopic unit functioning 6 days a week.
• Full fledged Casualty department functioning round the clock, 365 days / year with facilities for acute care and management and for dealing mass casualty.
• Casualty Emergency Operation Theatre (CEOT) working round the clock.
• Out – patient department functioning 6 days a week with a turnover of average 200 patients per day.
• Out – patient day surgery theatre on all days.
• Round the clock lab and radio diagnostic facilities including CT scan.

Teaching facilities

• Expert faculty
• 219 teaching beds with annual admissions averaging 7030 admissions.
• Rooms for clinical demonstration.
• Seminar rooms
• Class rooms with advanced audio-visual teaching facilities.
• Separate department library with access to national and international journals.

Office Rooms

1. Head of the Department & Unit Chief S1
2. Professor of Surgery & Unit Chief S2
3. Assoc.Professor of Surgery & Unit Chief S3
4. Assoc.Professor of Surgery & Unit Chief S4
5. Assoc.Professor of Surgery & Unit Chief S5
6. Assoc.Professor of Surgery & Unit Chief S6
7. Common faculty room
8. Department Library cum CA’s office
9. Seminar room
10. Endotrainer room for laparoscopy
11. Junior Doctors room male and female separate

Other Rooms

1. Staff room for Asst. professors & Lecturers
2. Post Graduate’s room
3. Surgical Wards & beds-Detailed attached
4. Operation Theatres (3 major & 1 minor theatre each day)

Shared with other departments

1. Central Library
2. Electronic Library (Learning Resources Centre)
3. Clinical Labs
4. Pathology Lab
5. Blood Bank

Equipments

1. Keltron Film projector and accessories
2. Desktop computer
3. Operating Laparoscope
4. Ventilators in SICU
5. ECG Monitors
6. Pulse Oxymeter
7. Defibrillator with ECG Monitor
8. Laparoscopic Endotrainer

Academic Activities

• Clinical demonstration
• Clinico-pathological conferences
• Didactic lecturers
• Tutorials
• Seminars
• Bed side clinics
• Casualty training
• Journal clubs
• Symposia
• Clinical club
• Case presentations
• Surgical club
• Panel discussion

Papers Presented

Dr. John S KURIEN, Associate Professor, presented a paper on Retromandibular vein approach for parotidectomy in December 1998 at the National Conference of Association of Surgeons of India. He also conducted a study from 1997-1999 to establish the correlation of the iodine content of drinking water and urinary iodine content in patients with goitre to identify the incidence of iodine deficiency diarrhoea in goitre patients in Central Travancore

CME’s

Conducted every year by the department

Conferences

Conducted every year

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