About Me

Dr. Shivakumar Varakanahalli is a renowned doctor and a Consultant in Gastrointestinal Science at the Manipal Hospital in the Whitefield area of Bangalore, Karnataka. He has done reputed medical degrees like MBBS, MD and DM in his field of expertise. He is fluent in speaking Hindi, Kannada, and English and uses this skill to deal with his patients with empathy. He came first in the north zone at the Torrent Young Scholar Awards held in 2013 in New Delhi. He won the Young Investigator Award at the International Liver Congress in Paris in 2018. He is an expert in therapeutic endoscopic procedures like colonoscopy, Upper GI endoscopy, ERCP, and enteroscopy. He has treated diseases like pancreatic disorders, dyspepsia, chronic diarrhoea, reflux disease, and inflammatory bowel disorders like ulcerative colitis and Crohn's. He received a grant for the conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver held in Tokyo in 2016. He won a plenary oral session award at a conference of the Indian National Society for the Study of The Liver in 2017. He has done multiple poster presentations at international conferences. He did a poster presentation about Gastric varices in cirrhosis vs EHPVO at the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver conference in 2016 and about Ulcerative colitis in adolescents at the ISKCON 2016. Many doctors praised his poster presentations about 'Obscure CBD dilatation' and about 'the stratification of risk in portal hypertensive bleed using an AIM 65 scoring system' made at the ENDOCON 2017. Dr. Shivakumar is the best gastrointestinal specialist in Whitefield, Bangalore. His articles have been published in reputable journals like the Ravindra K Saran Journal of Cytology, Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, and Journal OF Clinical and Exp. Hepatology. He is skilled in treating functional bowel disorders like Dyspepsia, gastritis, IBS, and reflux disease and handling gastrointestinal emergencies like GI bleeds. He is an expert in clinical hepatology, i.e. the treatment of liver cancer, liver cirrhosis, alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, and fatty liver. He did his MBBS from Mysore Medical College. He also has an MD in Internal Medicine from the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences. He did his DM in Gastroenterology at Delhi University. Before joining Manipal Hospitals, he worked for Narayana Multispeciality Hospital. He was trained at the G B Pant Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research in New Delhi. His specialisation is in therapeutic endoscopy, capsule endoscopy, and manometry. He is a member of the European Society for the Study of Liver and has attended many conferences organised by them, along with making contributions to their medical journals.