Doctor Profile

Dr S Bal is the Director of the department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Surgical Oncology at Fortis, Vasant Kunj and Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon. Dr Bal, is an alumnus of AIIMS, New Delhi and was, till 2005, an Additional Professor of Surgery and Consultant Thoracic Surgery and Chief of the Lung Cancer and other thoracic malignancies Clinic at his alma mater, the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

He is a former fellow of the internationally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre at New York and a Senior Registrar at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, London.

He has trained in Thoracic surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi and in the UK at the South West Regional Thoracic Surgery Unit at Bristol and at the Brompton Chest Hospital, London. He has been a clinical research fellow at University of Leicester, UK in Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema; which he has pioneered in India.

Detailed Qualification

• FRCS (Edinburgh) 1991
• Diplomate of The National Board of Examinations, India 1987
• MS (Gen Surgery) (AIIMS) 1984
• MBBS (AIIMS) 1981

Education

• 1984 – MS (Gen Surg) AIIMS, New Delhi
• 1989-93 – Senior Registrar, Thoracic Surgery, University of Bristol and Royal Marsden Cancer Centre , London, UK
• 1994 – UICC Fellow, University of Washington
• 1999 – Varoon Mahajan Fellow, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA
• 2000-2001 – Senior Research Fellow, Department of Respiratory Medicine & Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
  Robotic Surgical Training, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and Intuitive Surgical Labs, Atlanta, USA 2015
  Robotic Surgical Certification in Thoracic Surgery, Inyuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale California, USA & University of San Francisco, California, USA

Previous Experience

• 2009-Current
• Director & Head,  Thoracic Surgery & Thoracic Surgical and Foregut Oncology, Fortis-Escorts Hospitals, New Delhi and NCR
• 2006-2009
• Associate Director,  Thoracic Surgery & Thoracic Surgical and Foregut Oncology, Fortis-Escorts Hospitals, New Delhi and NCR
• 2001-2005
• Additional Professor of Thoracic Surgery & Chief, Lung Cancer Clinic, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi
• 1997-2001
• Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery & Chief, Lung Cancer Clinic, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi
• 1993-1997
• Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi
• 1988-89
• Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrine Surgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India
• 1985-88
• Senior Registrar and Senior Research associate, Department of Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi

Memberships

• Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)
• Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
• Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
• Indian Association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons (IACTS)
• Japan Society of Surgery
• British Surgical Stapling Group, UK
• Indian Hernia Society
• Society for Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, New Delhi, India

Awards and Accolades

• 2013 – 
  • Invited Faculty , 1St Asian Masters Conference in Minimal Access Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai, China
  • Proctor in VATS Lung and Thymic Resections, Kolkata University, PGIMER & SSKM Hospital 2015
  • Proctor in VATS Esophageal Resection, Government Hospital, Aizawl, Mizoram 2015
  • Invited Faculty, ATEP Mumbai and Thoracic Masterclass, Hyderabad 2015
• 2002 & 2011 – Best Paper Award in Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
• 2000-2001 – Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship, Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, UK
• 1999 – Varoon Mahajan Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA
• 1996 – Japanese Surgical Society Award for Complex resections in Thyroid Cancer, Kobe, Japan
• 1995 – Japanese Surgical Society Award for Extended resections in Rectal Cancer, Nagoya
• 1990 – Norman Tanner Best Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK)
• 1981 – V Ramalingaswami Prize for Best Intern , AIIMS, New Delhi
• 1980 – Best Undergraduate Student in Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi