Prof. Mohammad Sultan Khuroo

Prof. Mohammad Sultan Khuroo graduated from Medical College Srinagar Kashmir, India in 1967. He completed his MD (Medicine) from Medical College Srinagar in 1972 and DM in Gastroenterology from PGI Chandigarh India in 1978. In 1982, Prof. Khuroo joined the Chair in the Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology at the “Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar, Kashmir, India” and over next 13 years established a par excellent Department in tertiary care with superb clinical, investigative, teaching and research facilities and did extensive epidemiological studies on peptic ulcer, gall stones and esophageal and gastric cancer and established State of Jammu & Kashmir in the epidemiological map as zone for distinctive disease pattern. He collaborated with national and international research centers to do basic research on hepatitis E, esophageal and gastric cancer and biliary disease. Among these, National Institute of Health (NIH) Bethesda Maryland and Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta Georgia figured on the top. In 1995, Prof. Khuroo joined as the Head & Consultant of Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation at the prestigious King Faisal Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Finally his commitment to his soil brought him back to Kashmir in January 2005. 0n his return to Kashmir, India, he established a tertiary Care Digestive Diseases Center in Srinagar. Apart from excellent patient care, this center conducts extensive educational courses for the medical fraternity and for this runs a very active web site (www.drkhuroo.org). Prof. Khuroo has 226 scientific publications; he has traveled extensively as an invited speaker to deliver guest lecturers in international conferences and as visiting professor to Institutions of repute.