Dr. Bhagwan Singh Thakur

PROFILE

Dr. Bhagwan S Thakur is a Consultant Gastroenterologist based in Indore, where he practices at the Cosmos Gastro Care and Path Lab. He has a postgraduate MD in Internal Medicine and a post-doctoral DM in Gastroenterology as his specialist qualifications. Besides, he also completed a fellowship in endoscopic ultrasound techniques from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. His areas of interest are an endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), therapeutic endoscopy, ERCP and chronic liver diseases.

Prior to his association with the Cosmos Clinic, Dr. Thakur was attached to the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences in Indore, where he was initially designated as Associate Professor, followed by Assistant Professor and subsequently Professor, all in the Gastroenterology specialization. He was also associated with the GK Digestive Diseases and Endoscopy Centre, and in addition, did a short stint at the Bahrain Specialist Hospital as Specialist Gastroenterologist.

Dr. Thakur's clinical skills include management of upper and lower GI bleeding, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, acute pancreatitis, acute and chronic liver failure, upper and lower GI cancers, functional bowel/acid peptic disorders, hepato-biliary and pancreatic malignancies, chronic diarrhoeal illnesses, etc. In the last five years, he has also completed over 10,000 diagnostic UGI endoscopies, 8,000 colonoscopies, and 1,000 endoscopic hemostasis and esophageal dilatation procedures. In addition, he has performed over 2,000 diagnostic/therapeutic ERCPs and more than 800 endoscopic ultrasound procedures.

Dr. Bhagwan Thakur has been involved in the training of medical students of internal medicine and has delivered many lectures on various gastroenterological topics for general practitioners and physicians. Further, he has been extensively involved in research projects and clinical trials and has contributed several articles and papers to peer-reviewed journals. Some of his papers have also been presented at conferences connected to his area of expertise, which Dr. Thakur attends regularly to keep himself abreast of the latest developments in his profession.