Background
Pottakkat, Biju was born on November 15, 1972 in Valluvambram, Kerala, India. Son of Gangadharan Nair Pottekkat and Janaki Amma Areekkara.
Pottakkat, Biju was born on November 15, 1972 in Valluvambram, Kerala, India. Son of Gangadharan Nair Pottekkat and Janaki Amma Areekkara.
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University Calicut, Kerala, 1997. Master of Science in Surgery, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, 2001. Mean Corpuscular hemoglobin, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2005.
Lecturer, department surgery Medical College Kottayam, 2000—2001. Fellow, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery SGPGIMS, Lucknow, 2006. Lecturer, liver surgery Kurume University School Medicine, 2007.
Assistant professor, department head Sri Venkateswara Institute Medical Sciences, Tirupati, India, 2007. Visiting fellow Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Washington University School Medicine, St. Louis, 2007. Fellow Asian Center Liver Disease & Transplantation, Singapore, 2008.
Senior registrar surgical gastroenterology Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute Medical Sciences, 2001—2005, assistant professor, liver transplant unit, since 2008.
Convener Medical Subcommittee- Students Federation India, 1994—1996. Unit executive committee member Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishath- non-governmental organization Science Awareness, India, 1993—1995. Executive committee member Kerala Mediccos Association, India, 1994—1995.
Councilor University Calicut, India, 1994—1995, Calicut Medical College Union, 1994—1996. Member Indian Medical Association, 1997—1999. State convener All Kerala Medical Postgraduate Students Association, India, 1998—1999.
Member of National Academy Medical Sciences (India), Indian Society Gastroenterology (Travel grant 2006), Association Colon & Rectal Surgeons India, Indian Association Surgical Gastroenterology (Knights of Columbus Tan fellowship 2007), American society Transplantation (Travel grant 2007), International Hepatopancreatobilairy Association, International Association Surgeons & Gastroenterologists, Association Surgeons India (life).
Married Priyamvada P. Sivanpillai. 1 child Niranjana Pottekkat.