Dr Narendra Agarwal is a Consultant thoracic surgeon at FMRI Gurgaon ,india. He specializes in minimally invasive thoracic surgery uniportal vats and robotic surgery . He comes with wide international training from seoul national university hospital , korea ,national university hospital , Singapore , uniportal vats training from shanghai pulmonary hospital, shanghai and robotic thoracic surgery training from university of Alabama . His work includes Vats drainage of multi loculated empyema , decortication , lung resection , bullectomy and pleurectomy and mediastinal masses. He has keen interest in research and publications.

Main Speciality: Thoracic Surgery

Speciality Interests:

• Video assisted thoracoscopic surgeries for empyema, multiloculate deffusions and decortication , lung resection for benign and malignant disease , bullectomy and pleurectomy
• Robotic surgery for mediastinal tumours and Lung resections

• MBBS MS (Gen.Surgery )
• FCPS (Gen.Surgery)
• ATEP Fellowship Minimal invasive Onco Thoracic Surgery-Seoul National university Hospital, Korea
• Uniportal VATS Fellowship :Shanghai pulmonary hospital, Shanghai
• Fellowship in Minimally invasive Thoracic surgery (FMITS) at Medanta The Medicity
• Fellowship in Advance Minimally invasive surgeryat National university hospital Singapore

Professional Memberships:

• Member of Indian society of Thoracic surgery (ISTS)
• Member of Europen society of Thoracic surgery( ESTS)
• Member of Asian thoracoscopic education program (ATEP)
• Member of Indian Association of Gastro Endoscopic Surgeons(IAGES)

Work Experience:

• Manipal hospital Delhi
• Medanta The Medicity Gurgaon
• VMMC and safdarjung hospital , new Delhi
• Indraprastha Apollo hospital ,New Delhi

Research Experience :

• Role of VATS in Management of Pulmonary Hydatid and Follow up: case series
• A tale of surviving three consecutive cardiorespiratory arrests on table during a right sided pneumonectomy Journal of visualized surgery 2016
• Robotic assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy for post tuberculosis aspergilloma Journal of visualized surgery 2016; 2:51
• Prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial : Single-port versus conventional laparoscopic total extra-peritoneal inguinal hernia

Awards and Honours:

• President’s Award Winner : Best Oral presentation: Use of digital suction device in VATS decortication for early recovery and shorter hospital stay ISMICS, June 2015, Berlin, Germany
• Best Oral presentation: Awake VATS: our journey from local anesthesia thoracoscopy to complex lung resections ELSA, September 2015, Korea