Dr. R. VINOTH KUMAR
D.M MEDICAL GASTRO ENTEROLOGY
Chief of Intervention Gastroenterology, Therapeutic
Endoscopy & Hepatology
About Doctor
Dr. R. Vinoth Kumar , is the Chief and Senior consultant of our Department of Advanced therapeutic Endoscopy, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, of GEM Hospital Chennai, India. He is a skilled, modest, patient friendly and obtainable Gastroenterologist with more than 14 years of Clinical experience in the field of Gastroenterology. He is an expert interventional endoscopist and has performed more than 4000 ERCPs and advanced procedures like Endoscopic ultrasound guided therapeutic interventions, POEM for achalasia cardia and third space endoscopies. He performs all advanced therapeutic interventions like EUS guided GJ, EUS guided hepaticogastrostomy, EUS guided antegrade stenting, EUS guided gall bladder drainage.
He is a wonderful orator, and have delivered lectures in various conferences, doctors meetings and patients education forums. He is a wonderful human being who extends all due respect and empathy to patients as well as his fraternity members. He is an excellent teacher and have moulded numerous budding Gastroenterologists during his career.
He is a wonderful orator, and have delivered lectures in various conferences, doctors meetings and patients education forums. He is a wonderful human being who extends all due respect and empathy to patients as well as his fraternity members. He is an excellent teacher and have moulded numerous budding Gastroenterologists during his career.
Education And Training
He has done his DM in Medical Gastroenterology from Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, TN. He has underwent advanced therapeutic endoscopy under National and International starwards . He did his EUS training program under world famous Prof. Peter Vilmann in Copenhagen Denmark. He was trained by Prof. Bing Hu, Chengdu, China in POEM and advanced third space endoscopy. He holds the honour of being trained by Famous National faculties like Dr. Amol Bapaye (Pune) & Dr. Mallay Sharma (Meerut). He also holds the prestigious American College of Gastroenterology Diploma in Gastroenterology.
core strengths
- Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
- Enteral Stenting
- Oesophageal stenting
- EUS Guided Therapeutic Procedures like Cystogstrostomy, hepatogastrostomy
- EUS guided gall bladder drainage
- POEM for Achalasia Cardia
- Third Space procedures
- Spy-Glass Cholangioscopy
- Endoscopic management of Pancreatic Diseases
- Endoscopic Pancreatic Necrosectomy
- Interested in Teaching and Training the budding Gastroenterologists
PUBLICATIONS
- Ramachandran vinoth kumr: Devakannu Thennarasu, Baskkaran, Harriprasad: Sattanathan, Swetha ; Endoscopic Treatment of Zenker’s Diverticulum. Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy practice 3(4):p 172, oct-dec2023/DOI:104103/ghep.ghep_10_23..
- Dr. R. Vedamanickam, 2Dr. D. Arunprasath, 3Dr. R. Vinothkumar, 4Dr. Sakthi Dasan; EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY, TOLERABILITY AND SAFETY OF A COMBINATION OF ESOMEPRAZOLE AND DOMPERIDONE IN GERD; Vol 5, Issue 10, 2016. ; DOI: 10.20959/wjpr201610-7118
- Vedamanickam R, Sakthi Dasan S, Vinoth Kumar R, Ananya J, Nagendram Dinakaran; Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in. patients with chronic dyspepsia among rural population A prospective study; January – February 2017 8(1) RJPBCS Page No. 1296
- An interesting case of auto immune cholangitis – (Journal of clinical and experimental hepatology
- A study on association of H Pylori in Minimal hepatic encephalopathy - Indian journal of gastroenterology 2013
- Vedamanickam R, Prasad B. H, Vinothkumar R, Dinakaran N. Effect of Intermittent Therapy With Rabeprazole 20mg in Patients With Symptomatic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease-A Double Blind Omeprazole-Controlled Study. Biomed Pharmacol J 2017;10(3).
- Indiran V, Vinoth Kumar R, Maduraimuthu P. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor presenting as gastroduodenal intussusception. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2015 Jul;34(4):347-8. doi: 10.1007/s12664-015-0587-y. PMID: 26293600.
- An Interesting Case of Sub- Acute Budd Chiari Syndrome. Padma V, Karthikeyan R*, Narendran A, and Syed Mohammed Javid MSA; Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences; March – April 2016 7(2)
- Case Report: An Interesting Case of Seroconversion after a Spontaneous Flare in a Patient with Chronic Hepatiti; Vinoth Kumar1, and S Habeeb Ahmed Abdul Kaiyoom; Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences; September - October 2014 5(5) RJPBCS
- R.Vinod kumar , R.Balamurali , G.Ramkumar , K. Muthukumaran, P.Ganesh , S .Jeevankumar, ; Changing trends in carcinoma stomach ;Indian journal of gastroenterology(Nov 2012 )
- R.Vinod kumar , R.Balamurali , G.Ramkumar , K. Muthukumaran, P.Ganesh , S .Jeevankumar, Comparative Study on Baclofen and Omeprazole in GERD patient; ,Indian journal of gastroenterology(Nov 2012 )