About Dr. Snehal Shah’s Experience and Surgical Training

Dr. Snehal Shah is a head and neck cancer surgeon with 11 years of experience in the field, as stated in his existing professional profile. He completed his MBBS in 2007 from Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Government Hospitals.

Following his medical education, he pursued postgraduate training in Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) and completed his Master of Surgery (MS) in Otorhinolaryngology from Miraj in 2011. His academic background laid the foundation for his further specialization in head and neck cancer surgery.

From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Shah pursued a fellowship in Head and Neck Oncosurgery at Tata Memorial Hospital, a cancer centre in Mumbai. He subsequently undertook MCh training in Head and Neck Surgery at Tata Memorial Hospital from 2016 to 2019, further developing his specialized surgical training.

His professional training at Tata Memorial Hospital included cancer surgery and reconstructive surgery (plastic surgery). He also received training in endoscopic skull base surgery and robotic surgery. In 2017, he pursued additional training in reconstructive surgery at Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore.

With a professional background in head and neck cancer surgery, Dr. Shah’s training and experience are relevant to patients researching a cancer specialist in Mumbai, an oncology surgeon in Mumbai or a cancer surgeon in Mumbai. His work in head and neck cancer care has also been recognised through participation in national and international conferences.

The following section highlights his awards and professional achievements.

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Poster/Paper presented at National Conferences:

Presented a paper titled EPULIS at National Conference AOICON, Mumbai in Jan.’ 2010.
Oral presentation at GAP conference, South Korea, 2014
Best Paper at ISO conference 2019 for “Involvement of neurovascular bundle as criterion for T4A tongue squamous cancers “
Oral presentation at FHNO Chennai 2019

Conferences attended:

Participated in the 5th Ann Conferencernce of The Association of Phono surgeons of India in March 2009.
Eighty Third Temporal Bone Workshop in Dec 2011 .at Dr. Morwani, Nanavati Hospital.
Participated in LARYNGOLOGY UPDATE 2012.
Participated in Ear&Sinus workshop 2012p-2012 at Indorewala ENT hospital.
Participated as a delegate with Cadaveric Dissection in IX Basic Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Workshop 2012 at LTMMC&GH, Mumbai.
Participated Everest ever Sleep Apnea Surgery Workshop in Jun 2012.
Participated in 2nd HEAD & NECK SURGICAL WORKSHOP in Jan 2012.
Podium presentation at GAP conference 2015 south Korea for “ Preliminary results of rural oral screening trial”.
2nd Prize for best poster at IARC, 2017.
Survival Analysis conference, Chennai 2015.

Research & Thesis

Have done a thesis for Post-graduation in MS (Otorhinolaryngology) on the Study of Sensorineural hearing loss in chronic otitis media.

PUBLICATIONS

Patterns of Failure and Outcomes in cT4 Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) Undergoing Upfront Surgery in Comparison to Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT) Followed by Surgery: A Matched Pair Analysis
Shivakumar Thiagarajan , Harsh Dhar , Atanu Bhattacharjee , Khuzema Saifuddin Fatehi , Snehal Bhupesh Shah , Devendra Chaukar , Deepa Nair , Anuja Deshmukh , Kumar Prabhash , Amit Joshi , Vijay Patil , Vanita Noronha , Sarbani Ghosh Laskar , Anil K D Cruz 7PMID: 31739192 DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2019.104455

Parathyroid carcinoma—An experience of the enigma over 10 years
Supreet Singh Nayyar, Shivakumar Thiagarajan, Devendra Chaukar, Sarbani Ghosh Laskar, Asawari Patil, Abhishek Mahajan, Snehal Shah. Indian J Endocr Metab 2020;24:137-42.

Balaji, A., Thiagarajan, S., Dhar, H. et al. The results of sequential swallowing assessments after total laryngectomy for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal malignancies. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2020).

Bilateral Multifocal Warthin Tumors Mimicking Metastatic Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Rare Case Posing a Diagnostic Challenge
Tanvee Kulkarni, MD,* Snehal Shah, MS,† Swapnil Rane, MD, DNB, PDCC, MRes (TCM),*‡ Abhishek Mahajan, MD,‡§ Munita Bal, MD,*‡ Richa Vaish, MS, MCh,† and Asawari Patil, MD*‡
(AJSP: Reviews & Reports 2020;25: 8–11)

Prognostic significance of surgical margins after transoral laser microsurgery for early-stage glottic cancer, letter to editor

Accelerated fraction radiation therapy versus concurrent chemoradiation therapy for locally advanced head and neck cancers: Is there evidence of equivalent effect? Snehal Bhupendra Shah1, Devendra Arvind Chaukar1, Priya Ranganathan2
1. Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
2. Department of Anaesthesiology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Tobacco and cancer awareness program among school children in rural areas of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra state in India
Atul Budukh, Snehal Shah, Suyash Kulkarni, Sharmila Pimple, Suvarna Patil, Devendra Chaukar, CS Pramesh Paper accepted for the publication by Indian Journal of Cancer

Head and neck oncology: The Indian scenario, commentary, Snehal Shah, Shilpi Sharma , Anil Dcruz
South Asian Journal of Cancer ♦ July-September 2016 ♦ Volume 5♦ Issue 3
Fwd: IJSO: Your manuscript entitled Assessing the agreement between preoperative fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) done for major salivary gland neoplasm when reported by head and neck pathologists and non-head and neck pathologists with its final histopathology. –

Social Activities

Worked with World Health Organisation Pulse Polio Program in creating awareness among people about Polio vaccination among resistant populations at chikhali village , Raigad.
Conducted ENT Camp at Police Head Quarters at Sangli.
Conducted ENT Camp at Khed, Konkan for School children.
Conducted ENT Camp at Cheetah camp at chembur.