Dr. Karthik K Raichurkar is a renowned HPB and Liver Transplant Surgeon with over 12 years of experience in managing liver diseases and performing liver transplants. He completed his MBBS from Government Medical College, Mysuru in March 2006, followed by MS (General Surgery) training at JIPMER, Puducherry in March 2011.He has received his laparoscopic surgery training at GEM hospital in Coimbatore which is a world renown centre for minimally invasive surgery. He then pursued specialized training in GI surgery at the prestigious AIIMS, New Delhi, completing it in December 2016. Further advancing his expertise, he underwent liver transplant surgical training at Apollo Hospital, Chennai, which he completed in June 2018.
Dr. Raichurkar is proficient in handling complex hepato-biliary conditions and is also skilled in Liver and renal transplantation procedures. He has contributed to the field through scientific and research publications in reputed medical journals and is an active member of the Liver Transplant Society of India.
- Complex Liver surgery.
- Pancreatic resections (Both Benign and cancer).
- Complex biliary resections and reconstructions.
- Liver transplantation (Both deceased donor and living donor liver transplant).
- Renal Transplantation(Both Deceased donor and living donor).
- MBBS Govt Medical college Mysuru
- MS Gen surgery JIPMER( Puducherry)
- DNB Gen surgery NBE, New Delhi 2012.
- MCh GI Surgery AIIMS, New Delhi 2016.
- DNB GI surgery NBE, New Delhi 2017.
- PDF (Liver Transplant) MGR University Chennai 2018.
Academic Presentations/awards:
- Poster presentation: Role of ultrasound in predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis IASG (Indian association of surgical gastroenterology) 2011 at Jaipur.
- Awarded Bursary for IHPBA (Indian hepatopancreaticobiliary association) conference in Mumbai in January 2014.
- Paper presentation: Laparoscopic Spleenectomy and devascularisation at IHPBA, Mumbai 2014.
- Paper presentation: Lap versus open Pancreaticoduodenectomy in IHPBA Mumbai 2014.
- Awarded Bursary for IASG (Indian association of surgical gastroenterology) October 2016.
- Best award poster IASG 2016: Prospective validation of Comprehensive complication index (CCI) in GI and hepatobiliary procedures.
- Poster presentation: Correlation of intraoperative events on postoperative outcomes and quality of life in patients undergoing GI surgical procedures at IASG 2016.
- Journal presentation: Ideal Cohort study in IASG Bursary, 2016.
- Poster presentation: Assessment of long-term quality of life after oesophagectomy in patients with carcinoma oesophagus IASG 2017.
- Poster presentation in LTSICON 2020 – Profile of donors for living donor liver transplantation in a tertiary care centre in south India.
- 11. Poster presentation in LTSICON 2021 – Simultaneous resection of liver and pancreas for dual primary malignancies: A case report.
- Liver and biliary Diseases(Benign and Malignant)
- Benign and malignant Pancreatic diseases
- Acute and chronic liver failure and Liver transplantation.
- End stage renal disease and Renal Transplantation
Research Publications:
- Rajesh Panwar, Vedavyas Mohapatra, Karthik Raichurkar, Peush Sahni. Development and validation of a new score for measuring post-operative complications. Published in Langenbecks archives of surgery in August 2018.
- Karthik Raichurkar, Rajiv Lochan, Mathew Jacob, Sonal Asthana. The use of 3D printing model in planning a donor hepatectomy for living donor liver transplantation: First in India. JCEH Aug 2020.
- Richa Jain, Malikarjun Sakpal, Sonal Asthana, Karthik Raichurkar, Sudhir Kale. Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumour: A rare entity. Radiology case reports Nov 2020.
- Sahana Shankar, Apurve Pande, Thenral s Geetha, Karthik Raichurkar, Sonal Asthana. A new variant of an old itch: Novel missense variant in ABCB4 presenting with intractable pruritis JCEH April 2021.
- Sanjay Govil, Jayanth Reddy, Sandeep Satsangi, Raje gowda, Karthik Raichurkar, Anindita Mukherjee, Nagesh PN, Jayashree Shivadasan, Mukul vij. Fatal Herpes Simplex Hepatitis in a live liver donor JCEH Nov-Dec 2025.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
- Training and credentialing in Multi-organ retrieval: Indian perspective. GI annuals Jan 2022.
- Liver transplant registry. Textbook of liver transplantation. September 2022.”
Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI)- founder member
