Dr. K G Mathew is a Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon, having 38yrs surgical experience (General surgery, Advanced surgical Gastroenterology, Laparoscopic Surgery, Advanced Hernia surgery )
Dr K G MATHEW completed his MBBS from Bombay University in 1976, and, after a stint of 5 years in the Army Medical Corps did his MS (General Surgery) from Army Research and Referral Centre, Delhi University in 1985.
He subsequently went on to attain the prestigious FRCS (Ireland), and then the FRCS (Edinborough).
He has been practicing surgery for the last 38years, and has headed Dept of Gastrointestinal surgery at a major GI centre in Kerala doing advanced Gastrointestinal surgery that included surgery for cancers in stomach, colon etc.
Dr K G Mathew started laparoscopy surgery in 1990 when the technique was still in its infancy in India .
For the last 17years he was head of the Dept of Surgery division at NMC Specialty Hospital, Dubai (a major tertiary referral Centre)
Since 2010 Dr K G Mathew apart from his usual General Surgical work,has been developing techniques of Hernia surgery, and has conducted many International conferences, training programmes, and published papers on the subject.