Dr Premkumar Balachandran - Appointment Process [Updated 2025]

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About Dr Premkumar Balachandran

Experience: 12 Yrs+
Specialty: General SurgeonGeneral & Lap Surgeon
Qualification: MBBS, MS, FRCS(Glas), M.MAS(UK), FUCS, FICRS, FIAGES, FAMASI, Dip.ALS, FALS, Senior consultant Minimal Access, Robotic, Bariatric, Hernia & Abdominal wall Reconstruction Surgeon
Clinic: Apollo Hospitals Greams Road Chennai

Clinic Hours

MON- SAT
(01:00 PM-03:45 PM)

Location

Apollo Hospitals Greams Road Chennai
Apollo Hospitals 21, Greams Lane, Off Greams Road Chennai 600 006 Ph:044-28290200/3333
Timing MON- SAT (01:00 PM-03:45 PM)

Work Experience

Senior consultant Minimal Access, Robotic, Bariatric, Hernia & Abdominal wall Reconstruction Surgeon

Awards And Achievements

Awarded the CHIKITSA RATTAN award and gold medal for excellence in medical science by the INTERNATIONAL STUDY CIRCLE, NEW DELHI, 2007.
Awarded the BHARAT JYOTHI award, for contribution to education in the field of minimal access surgery by the IIFS, New Delhi, 2010.
Awarded the “MOTHER TERESA AWARD” for advances in medicine, by the Integrated council for socio economic development, Bangalore, 2012.
Awarded the “Teaching excellence award” by the Indus global foundation during the Indo global educational summit,Hyderabad,November 2015.
Conferred the title of “Distinguished clinical tutor” by the Apollo hospital educational research foundation (AHERF) – 2017.
One of the pioneers of Single incision laparoscopy in the country.
Performed the first single incision inguinal hernia repair in the country.
Was a member of the team who performed the first robotic bariatric sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass and SILS gastric bypass in the country.
One of the first Indians to perform complex robotic component separation hernia surgery
Conferred the title of “Distinguished clinical tutor” by the Apollo hospital educational research foundation (AHERF) – 2017.

Biodata

Dr Premkumar Balachandran is a General Surgeon with 26 years of experience on OMR Road, Chennai. Dr Premkumar Balachandran is a physician at Apollo Speciality Hospitals OMR in Chennai’s OMR Road neighborhood. He earned his MBBS in 1996 from The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University (TNMGRMU) and his MS – General Surgery in 2000 from Sri Ramachandra Medical College.
Dr Premkumar Balachandran is a Fellow of the Fellowship in Robotic Surgery (FRS), Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (FICS), Fellow of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endosurgeons (FIAGES), Fellow of the Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (FAMASI), Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI), Fellow of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Fellow of the Independent Medical Practitioners Association of India (IMPAI), Fellow of the Indian Association of Gastrointestin (IGELS). The doctor provides a variety of therapies, including incisional hernia repair, non-surgical fat loss, breast augmentation surgery, breast reduction surgery, and coloecystectomy.