Dr. Ravishankar Asokkumar is a Senior Consultant gastroenterologist and advanced therapeutic endoscopist at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is experienced in managing common and complex gastrointestinal disorders including obesity, colonic polyps resection, colon cancer screening, early gastric and esophageal cancer resection, gastrointestinal bleeding, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, liver disease, viral hepatitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
He established the first ever bariatric endoscopic program for weight loss in Singapore at the Obesity Centre, SGH. Under this program, he performs the minimally invasive endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty procedure, primary obesity surgery endoluminal procedure, gastric balloons, post gastric bypass stoma reduction and post gastric sleeve resuturing procedure for weight reduction. He is the first Gastroenterologist in Singapore to be recognized as the National fellow by World Obesity Federation.
Dr. Ravishankar graduated with MBBS (Gold Medal) from Madras Medical College, India in 2007, and completed his postgraduate degree in Internal Medicine (MRCP, United Kingdom) in 2011. He started his ACGME-I accredited residency training in Gastroenterology at Singapore General Hospital and obtained specialist accreditation in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2016. He also completed his Gastroenterology Specialist certification by Royal college of physicians of the United Kingdom in 2016. He pursued further training in Gastroenterology and completed his fellowship in Bariatric and Advanced therapeutic endoscopy at the renowned HM Sanchinarro University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Ravishankar has published extensively in peer-reviewed, high impact factor medical journals and authored several book chapters. He has collaborated internationally, and is a regular invited faculty in medical conferences both locally and internationally. He is a faculty in the Gastroenterology, Senior Residency training program and is a trainer for advanced endoscopic procedures for fellows.
Dr. Ravishankar holds academic appointments in the National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical and NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He has a strong interest in medical education and research and was bestowed with the Fellow recognition by the American Society of Gastroenterology and Royal College of Physicians, London.
