Indian American Surgical Association
Featured Member Profiles
Subhash Patel, MBBS, FACS
Dr. Subhash Patel, MBBS, FACS is a member of the Indian American Surgical Association's Executive Council. After completing his schooling in Gujarat, he moved to Bombay where he obtained his MBBS degree from Bombay University (Seth G. S. Medical College). After completing a mandatory one year Internship at K.E.M Hospital in Mumbai, he moved to the United States in 1980. He then completed his General Surgery Residency from Brooklyn Hospital, an affiliate of New York University. In 1985, he became a Fellow in Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery at Wayne State University, where he trained under Dr. Robert Wilson. During his fellowship training, ge developed an interest in Critical Care and joined the Society of Critical Care Medicine. In 1986, he joined the Faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago and became a staff surgeon at Cook County Hospital and UIC Hospital. He continued to be an integral part of fellowship training in Surgical Critical Care.
Dr. Patel then pursued a focused interest in Endocrine Surgery. He developed and created a section of Endocrine Surgery, and eventually a Fellowship of Endocrine Surgery in association with Dr. Richard Prinz at Rush University. In 2014, he retired from Cook County Hospital, although he continues to remain a voluntary physician and Associate Program Director of the North Shore/Cook County fellowship program in Endocrine Surgery. He continues to play an integral part of Surgical Critical Care training.
At Rush University, Dr. Patel served as the Director of the clinical skills lab for medical students. He has authored many publications, presentations, and book chapters in the field of Endocrine Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. He also served on the Quality Assurance committee for the surgical section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and also on several committees at University of Illinois Hospital, Rush University, and Cook County Hospital.
Maintaining a strong interest in community service, he has served as vice president of the local community board in Burr Ridge village for 10 years. He is currently on the National Board of BAPS Charities Medical division, a UN recognized international charity organization that conducts health fairs and health awareness lectures for the community.
Subhash Patel, MBBS, FACS
IASA Executive Council
Ajay Upadhyay, MD, FACS, FRCS
Ajay Upadhyay, MD, FACS, FRCS, is a graduate of the Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, in Delhi, India. He completed his surgical training in the United Kingdom and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. His subsequent training in surgery included a Fellowship in Surgical Research & Hepato-Pancreato-Billiary Surgery at the University of California Medical School, San Diego, California; a residency at the New York Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York Hospital Cornell, Medical School, New York; and Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Villejuif, Paris, France, with Professor Henri Bismuth.
Dr. Upadhyay has been Program Director of the Advanced GI Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland and Berkeley, California, since 2005. Dr. Upadhyay has been an early adapter and a pioneer of Robotic Surgery since its inception in 2000. His research interests include robotic liver resection and robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy. He has been a keynote speaker at both national and international forums on minimally invasive and robotic surgery. Dr. Upadhyay has been a volunteer surgeon in the Guatemala, Philippines, and India.
Vijay Mittal, MD, MS, FACS, FICS
Dr. Vijay Mittal completed his medical education at Amritsar Medical College followed by surgical residency at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. He later joined the faculty at the same institution and participated in the first kidney transplant at PGI in 1973. He migrated to the United States in 1975 where he did his surgical residency and fellowship in transplantation in Detroit, Michigan.
He began practice in general, vascular and transplant surgery in 1981. He was Director of the Pancreatic Transplant Program and Associate Director of Transplantation at Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital/Grace Hospital affiliated with Wayne State University. He has been directly involved with surgical education since 1975. He was the Director of Research and surgical education with the same institutions.
Dr. Mittal is a member of various surgical societies including American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Western Surgical Association, Midwest Surgical Association, AHPBA, IHPBA, SAGES, SESC, ASE, International Society of Transplantation, and a founding member of the Transplant Society of India. Dr. Mittal’s scholarly activities include greater than 250 published articles in peer reviewed journals, more than 350 oral paper presentations, multiple video presentations, eighteen book chapters, and multiple visiting professorships. He is in the editorial board for many surgical journals. He has received multiple research and teaching awards He received C.W. Hall award academy of surgical research. Dr. Mittal is the senior editor of Comprehensive Textbook of Surgery and American Journal of Robotic Surgery He has delivered more than one hundred guest lectures at various institutions, nationals and international conferences in his career. He recently delivered the Panchan Chattergee Endowment lecture at ASI.
He was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Scholarship in teaching and research by the Fulbright Commission. His Fulbright project involves evaluation of global surgical education. He also delivered the fifth transplant oration at PGI Chandigarh in 2014.
Dr. Mittal held many leadership positions in various national and international surgical societies. He help the office of Vice President, Chair of Regents, Secretary and President of International College of Surgeons US section. He was the world governor of ICS as well as vice-president of the World International College of Surgeons. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, International College of Angiology and International College of Surgeons. He is a surgical leader and has been president of the Detroit Surgical Association, Academy of Surgery of Detroit and American College of Surgeons-Michigan Chapter. He is the chair of surgery in the Southeast Center of Medical Education which is a consortium for medical education in Michigan. Recently Dr. Mittal is the president of the Indian American Surgeons Association.
Dr. Mittal is currently the chief and program director of general surgery at Providence Hospital and Medical Centers in Southfield, Michigan. Dr. Mittal holds a clinical appointment as Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He is a surgical educator and a research scholar with a vested interest in global surgical education.
Dr. Mittal lives with his wife in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and has two daughters.
