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INDRU T. KHUBCHANDANI, MD, FRCS, FACS

Education:
Medical School: 1956 - Grant Medical College, Bombay, India

Surgical Residency: 1957-1960 - General Surgery & Casualty Officer (traumatic surgery), Sunderland Area Hospital Management Committee, England 1960-1961 - Surgical Registrar (Chief Resident) at Ryhope General Hospital, Ryhope, England Fellowship - General Surgery- New England Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1961-1962 Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons

Colon & Rectal Fellowship: 1962-1965 - Colon & Rectal Surgery & Junior Instructor at Temple University Medical Center, Phila, PA (Harry E. Bacon, M.D.) M.S. Temple University

Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons, England; Fellow of American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons; Fellow of American College of Surgeons; Board Certified in Colon & Rectal Surgery

Specialties:
Colon and Rectal Cancer Screening, Office Hemorrhoidectomy, Rubber Band Ligation, Infrared Coagulation, Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy, Fissure/Fistula Surgery, Sphincter saving surgery for cancer of rectum (Pull-through operation), Sphincter saving surgery for colitis (ileorectal anastomosis), Pouch Procedure, Rectocele Repair

RESUME
In addition to his busy Practice as a Colon and Rectal Surgeon, Dr. Indru T. Khubchandani is a Professor of Surgery at Pennsylvania State University/Hershey Medical Center and at Hahnemann Medical School/Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Khubchandani has been a Past President of the Pennsylvania Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, NorthEast Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and Indian Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He has been an examiner for the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and on the Editorial Board of various journals, including American, Italian, Brazilian, and Indian, and he is a Referree for the British Journal of Surgery.

He serves as Director General of the International Society University of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (1980-present). Recognized as a renowned expert in his Specialty, Dr. Khubchandani is an honorary member of eight international societies, including Brazilian Society of Coloproctology, Chilean Society of Colon and Rectal surgeons, Venezuelan Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, International Gastroenterology Society of Egypt, Galactia Society of Gastroenterology of Spain, Brazilian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, La Sociedad Cubana de Coloproctogia, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He has served as President of the Medical Staff at Lehigh Valley Hospital and has been a member of the Board of Trustees for sixteen years. He is also a past President of Lehigh County Medical Society.

To date, Dr. Khubchandani has written 107 articles for peer review journals and seventeen textbook chapters. Locally, nationally, and internationally, Dr. Khubchandani has made over 560 presentations as a Visiting Professor.

Dr. Khubchandani is active in teaching at Hershey Medical School where, in 2005, Penn State University endowed a Khubchandani Chair in Colon and Rectal Surgery for teaching and research at Lehigh Valley Hospital. He has been awarded several Teacher of the Year citations. He is also included, by invitation, in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Medicine.

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