Dr. T. Narayana Rao is a Professor of Surgery, Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, A.P. India. He is also chief of the surgical division at King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam. He graduated from Andhra Medical College in 1984.
He took a fellowship at Weill Medical College Presbyterian Hospital and Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital New York USA in Bariatric (obesity)and colorectal surgery. He has visited the university civil Hospital and IRCAD-EITS, Strasbourg, France, and underwent training there in Natural Orifice Transluminal Endosurgery. He started his practice in 1992. He is now a general, laparoscopic, and bariatric surgeon.
He has performed many surgeries that are unique and first of their kind in Andhra Pradesh; he is the first person to introduce keyhole surgery and single port (scarless surgery) and laparoscopic colorectal surgery-and Bariatric surgery – to coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema.
He has organized many health camps in remote places of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa and worked in rural India for many years, treating many poor patients in that period.
He has presented papers in various National and International Conferences and has delivered guest lecturers at national conferences. He has chaired sessions at National and International Conferences. He has published papers in National and International Journals. He has organized a workshop in Laparoscopic surgery (MAS-2004, Taj Residency Vizag). He also organized the Mid-Term Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology(IASG) on March 27, 2011, at Gateway Taj Hotel Visakhapatnam. He worked as a faculty in Adayar Cancer Institute in Chennai and as a visiting doctor at Tata Memorial Hospital. He is the organizing chairman of ASICON2014 Hyderabad.