Amit Maydeo

Mumbai (India)

DrAmit Maydeo is currently the Chairman of the Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences at the
Global hospital in Mumbai, India, and a Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology at the Breach
Candy hospital in Mumbai. He has been the past president of the Society of GI Endoscopy of
India.
His main research interest has been in the field of GI Endoscopy, particularly Interventional
ERCP and the new speciality of 3rd Space Endoscopy. He has done original work in the areas of
endotherapy of chronic pancreatitis, GI bleeding, difficult CBD stones and 3rd space endoscopy.
Dr Maydeo wasthe first to introduce 3rd space endoscopy procedures in India like POEM, STER
& ARMS proceduresin Indiafrom 2012 and is also the pioneer to launch India’s first Bariatric
endoscopy program in 2018. In 2019, he introduced the (GERDx) procedure for GERD in India.
He has published over 200 papers in National and International peer reviewed journals and has
written chapters in 7 textbooks on GI Endoscopy and related topics. He is on the International
editorial board of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Endoscopy and is a Co-Editor of the Endoscopy
International Open journal. He has received the outstanding reviewer award from GIE for the
past 5 consecutive years.
Dr Maydeo has been a visiting faculty for more than 200 endoscopy workshops all over the
world and has himself conducted 21 International LIVE endoscopy workshops in Mumbai over
the past 25 years.
Dr Maydeo was recognized by the Government of India in the year 2013 when he received the
Padmashri award for his outstanding contribution to the field of medicine and gastroenterology
from the President of India. Dr Maydeo was appointed as Emeritus Professor in the department
of Surgery at the Seth GS Medical College in 2019 in Mumbai.
Prof Maydeo has also been an award winner in the 1st World Cup of Endoscopy held in Chicago
during the DDW and was selected to be a member of the jury for the endoscopy world cup
during DDW 2016.
Prof Maydeo is an avid teacher and runs a popular Endoscopy training institute called as the
Endoscopy Gurukul where aspiring young endoscopists from India and abroad are taught basic
as well as advanced GI Endoscopic procedures.