Profile Summary

Medical Qualification: 

• MBBS from IGMC , Shimla
• MS (ORL) from Grant Medical College and JJ group of Hospitals
• HBNI fellowship in Head Neck Oncosurgery from prestigiousTata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
• Fellowship in “Endoscopic Thyroid Surgery” from National Center of Endocrinology at Hanoi, Vietnam
• Fellowship in Robotic Surgery (TORS) from Seoul, Korea
• Endo Skull base surgery fellowship from Ohio, USA
• HBNI Fellowship from Tata Memorial Hospital in Head Neck surgery

 

Designation: Senior Consultant, Head & Neck Oncosurgery and Skullbase Surgery

Years of experience: 16 Years

Areas of expertise:

• Special interest in Robotic surgeries and minimal access procedures for head neck cancers
• Specialized in thyroid, parathyroid and minimal access thyroid (endoscopic) procedures.
• Special interest in plastic reconstructive surgeries including microvascular procedures

Introduction:

Dr Rakesh Katna is a Head Neck and Skullbase Oncosurgeon with over 16 years of expertise. He has been trained in head and neck Oncosurgery from prestigious Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.  He has been trained in Robotic surgery in Seoul and Skull base surgery in Ohio and Pittsburgh.
He has special interest and experience in head and neck cancer surgeries, minimally invasive thyroid surgeries, Robotic and skull base surgeries. Dr Katna has been listed consistently in top doctors of Mumbai. He is director, Head Neck fellowship program and is Editorial Board member of “Scientific reports” journal. Beyond clinical expertise, Dr Katna has keen Interest in research and has various international publications and is a faculty speaker at various National and international forums

Awards/Fellowship/Publica

Awards & Publications:

• Reclassifying cT4b buccal mucosa/gingivobuccal complex cancers: do we need to change? British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2023
• Role of Selective Neck Dissection in Clinically Single Node Positive Disease in Oral Cavity Cancers” Indian J Surg Onco. 2023 Sep;14(3):644-650
• “Compartmental Clearance of Infratemporal Fossa for T4b Carcinoma of Buccal Mucosa/Alveolus: Clinical Outcomes” Indian J Surg Oncol. 2020 Jun;11(2)
• “Pedicled Flap vs. Free Flap Reconstruction in Head and Neck Cancers: Clinical Outcome Analysis from a Single Surgical Team” Indian J Surg Oncol. 2021 Sep;12(3):472-476.
• “Free thyroid transfer to anterolateral thigh for prevention of radiation induced hypothyroidism: An initial experience” J Otolaryngol. 2019 Mar-Apr;40(2):160-163.
• “Clinicopathologic study and outcome analysis of thyroid lymphomas: experience from a tertiary cancer center” Head Neck. 2013 Feb;35(2):165-71

 

Fellowships:

• Sekhsariya Fellow Tata Memorial Hospital
• HBNI Clinical fellow Tata Memorial Hospital
• Surgical Fellowship in Endoscopic Thyroid Surgery at National Centre of Endocrinology
• TORS (Transoral Robotic Surgery) Assam Medical Centre, Seoul – Koreo

Memberships:

Memberships:

• MEMBER OF FHNO (FEDERATION OF HEAD AND NECK ONCOSURGEONS)
• MEMBER OF ESMO
• MEMBER OF AOI (NATIONAL BODY OF ENT SURGEONS)
• EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF “SCIENTIFIC REPORTS” NATURE GROUP JOURNAL