Pankaj Chandak

Pankaj Chandak
M.R.C.S.Eng, FRAS, FLS
Born 21 June 1977
Akola, India
Education Guy's and St Thomas' University of London
Known for 3D printing in paediatric kidney transplant surgery
Medical career
Notable prizes
  • The Royal College of Surgeons of England Lister Essay Prize and Medal 2014
  • The Royal College of Surgeons Arnott Medal 2016
  • Royal Society of Medicine Norman Tanner Medal 2016
  • British Science Festival Charles Darwin Award 2017

Pankaj Chandak, (born 21 June 1977), is an Indian-born British surgeon who pioneered the use of 3D printing in paediatric kidney transplant surgery. He has also undertaken work in education, public engagement, presenting demonstrations, and acting in The Crown television series. Chandak is a graduate of Guy's and St Thomas' University of London medical school and was an anatomy demonstrator under Professor Harold Ellis CBE. He holds an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS) and has won reputed surgical awards, including the Royal College of Surgeons of England Lister Essay Prize and Medal, The Royal College of Surgeons and Worshipful Company of Cutlers Medal, and The Royal Society of Medicine's Norman Tanner Medal.

Education

Chandak received a Corporation of London Scholarship to City of London School, which he attended from 1993 to 1995. His form tutor was Dr Cook.[1] He earned a BSc(Hons) and MBBS from Guy's, King's, and St Thomas' Medical School in 2001,[2] and is noted to have gained M.R.C.S.Eng, FRAS, and FLS (Fellow of the Linnean Society).[2][3][4]

As a student, he worked on the clinicopathological correlation in paediatric cerebral malaria under Dr Richard Carr and Professor Terrie Taylor in African children and presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Washington, 1999.[5]

Medical career

As of 2017, Chandak, a Specialist Registrar in Transplant Surgery, works at Guy's, St Thomas', and Great Ormond Street Hospitals under Professor Nizam Mamode and Professor Anthony Dorling at King's College London who supervise his research fellowship in the therapeutic manipulation of organs using machine perfusion technology and the use of 3D printing in complex transplant surgery.[6][7] He simultaneously teaches at the Faculty of Surgical Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was Anatomy Demonstrator under Professor Ellis.[2]

Chandak planned the world's first integration of 3D printing into complex paediatric transplantation, for which he won the RSM's Norman Tanner Medal in 2016.[8][2][9] Under media coverage, in 2015, a 3D printing of an adult-sized, living-donor kidney from a father was used by Chandak and his team to plan a kidney transplant into his daughter, who was two years old.[10][11][12] This 3D kidney model has since been accepted by the The Science Museum in London, for permanent exhibition in their new medical galleries which will open in 2019[2][13][14]

Chandak's research in donor organ perfusion is also a topic in his public demonstrations.[6]

Public engagement

Chandak has been involved in communicating science to broader audiences.[6] This has included presenting live demonstrations for the BBC, Channel 5,[3] the British Science Festival 2016,[15] and London Open House. The main areas of his discussions focus on minimally invasive surgery, 3D printing and machine perfusion technology in organ transplantation.[16]

The Crown television series

Chandak directed his transplant team and acted alongside them in Stephen Daldry's television series The Crown.[17] The team performed a simulated operation, replicating the 1952 procedure of lung surgery on George VI. This is believed to be the first time practicing doctors and surgeons have been directly employed as actors to ensure realism in a television production.[17][18] It was filmed in a period set at Goldsmiths' Hall in London.[19] The surgical model body of King George VI from the Series is now used in the Gordon Museum of Pathology as an aid to surgical training for medical students.[20][21]

3D printing and paediatric organ transplant

Involved with the British Science Association and its Science Festival, Chandak has promoted public engagement of science-inspired projects.[15][16]

In April 2017, Chandak performed live at The Royal Institution on modern-day surgery, 3D printing, perfusion machines, and antibody-suppressing drugs.[22][23][24]

Chandak was invited to speak at The Royal Society on 3 July 2017 on the applications of 3D-printing to complex surgeries.[25] He continues to lecture on 3D printing in transplantation.[26]

Awards

Chandak has been awarded prizes and lectures for his role in 3D printing in transplant surgery, including The Royal Society of Medicine Adrian Tanner Prize, 2013,[27] The Royal College of Surgeons Lister Essay Prize and Medal 2014,[28] The Royal College of Surgeons Ronald Raven Barbers Award 2015,[29] and The Royal College of Surgeons Arnott Lecture and Medal, delivered at the British Transplantation Congress 2016.[6][29] Chandak was awarded the annual trainee surgical prize for innovation in surgery, The Norman Tanner Medal, by the Royal Society of Medicine in 2016. As well as 3D printing in transplant surgery, he presented at this award session, outcomes in paediatric kidney transplantation surgery.[6][30]

In 2016, for applications, design, and innovation of surgical technology and instruments, Chandak described himself and his team as 'fortunate' to receive the Royal College of Surgeons and Worshipful Company of Cutlers' Medal and Cutlers' Prize 2016.[6] In 2017, Chandak received the inaugural International Paediatric Transplant Young Scholar Award which was presented in Barcelona at The International Paediatric Transplant Association.[31]

Declaring an interest in History of Medicine, Chandak has delivered lectures on Lord Joseph Lister and the 'surgical journey from scalpels to robots'.[16][22] In June 2017, Chandak was invited to deliver The Goodall Memorial Lecture to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Joseph Lister's antiseptic legacy, held at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as part of the Glasgow Science Festival.[32][33] He has in addition been awarded The British Science Association Charles Darwin Award Lecture 2017 which will be delivered at the British Science Festival in Sept 2017.[16]

Personal

Born in Akola, India, Chandak moved to the UK as a child. Chandak cites as his influences Joseph Lister and Michael Faraday.[23][32]. His father, General Practitioner, Dr Balkishan Chandak, has also been a role model.[34]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "The Magazine of The City of London School Alumni Association Autumn 2015" (PDF). The Gazette. Autumn 2015. p. 12.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Pankaj Chandak, Transplant Registrar in London Hospitals". Business Cloud. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "King's Connect Asia events 2016 - Hong Kong". www.alumni.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Immune Desensitization Allows Pediatric Blood Group... : Transplantation". LWW. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000001325. FLS
  5. ↑ Grau, Georges E. (December 1999). "Platelet Accumulation in Brain Microvessels in Fatal Pediatric Cerebral Malaria". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 61: 461 – 466 – via Oxford Journals.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Thompson, Alexandra (2017). "Using 3D printing for complex pediatric transplantation: an interview with Pankaj Chandak". Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine. 1 (1): 9–12. doi:10.2217/3dp-2016-0012.
  7. ↑ "Pankaj Chandak". www.linkedin.com. 10 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "Trainee transplant surgeon wins award for 3D printing". Guy's and St Thomas' NHS. February 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Transforming transplantation". MRC Insight. 8 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Kidney transplant: Antrim parents' gratitude after innovative surgery aided by 3D printing". BBC News. 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  11. ↑ Murgia, Madhumita (26 January 2016). "Toddler gets world first adult kidney transplant using 3D printing". The Telegraph.
  12. ↑ Chandak, Pankaj (23 February 2017). "Classification of abdominal vascular anomalies and use of 3D printing to support complex renal transplantation in children". The Lancet. 389.
  13. ↑ Hurley, Selina (20 March 2017). "Exploring 3D Printed Organs in the Medicine Galleries". Science Museum Blog.
  14. ↑ "Science Museum Displays Medical Firsts". The Science Museum. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  15. 1 2 "Swansea, UK - British Science Festival". www.storycollider.org. 8 September 2016.
  16. 1 2 3 4 "From kings to keyholes: surgical innovation in organ transplantation | British Science Festival". British Science Festival. 2017-06-22. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  17. 1 2 "Surgeons replace actors in The Crown's King George VI operation scene". Barrhead News. November 2016.
  18. ↑ "Surgeons replace actors in The Crown operation scene". Basingstoke Gazette. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  19. ↑ "The Crown: Where was it filmed?". www.radiotimes.com. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  20. ↑ PA. "Surgeons replace actors in The Crown's King George VI operation scene". Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  21. ↑ "Surgeon Pankaj Chandak delivers exclusive lecture on innovation in surgery". 10 August 2017.
  22. 1 2 "The Cutting Edge: Surgery from Scalpels to robots". www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2017. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  23. 1 2 "The Cutting Edge of Surgery- Surgery from scalpels to Robots". www.youtube.com. 26 June 2017.
  24. ↑ "The Royal Institution: Science Lives Here". www.rigb.org. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  25. ↑ "3D-Print your way to health". royalsociety.org. 8 June 2017.
  26. ↑ "28th Annual British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Conference | British Society for Immunology". www.immunology.org. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  27. ↑ "Section Prizes" (PDF). Royal Society of Medicine Annual Report 2012/2013: 10.
  28. ↑ "King's College London Surgical Society". www.kclsurgicalsoc.co.uk.
  29. 1 2 Human Tissue Authority Annual Review Event 2016 Speaker biographies (2016). "Human Tissue Authority, Annual Review Event 2016, Speaker biographies" (PDF).
  30. ↑ "The Goodall Symposium 2017: Safer Surgery - The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister". 30 May 2017.
  31. ↑ "International Paediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Young Scholars Award 2017 to Pankaj Chandak". 28 May 2017.
  32. 1 2 "Glasgow Science Festival: Exploring Lister’s Legacy". www.glasgowsciencefestival.wordpress.com. 14 June 2017.
  33. ↑ Lanarkshire, Whats On. "Goodall Symposium: Safer Surgery - The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister at Royal College Of Physicians and Surgeons Of Glasgow, Glasgow City Centre | What's On Lanarkshire". What's On Lanarkshire. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  34. ↑ "Popular Cheshunt GP who came to England with just £20 retires". Hertfordshire Mercury. 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  35. ↑ Thomas, William E. G.; Reed, Malcolm W. R.; Wyatt, Michael G., eds. (2016-07-28). Oxford Textbook of Fundamentals of Surgery. Oxford Textbooks in Surgery. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199665549.
  36. ↑ Mahadevan, V.; Chandak, P. (March 2013). "The surgical anatomy of the perineum". Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 159 Suppl 1: i10–14. ISSN 0035-8665. PMID 23631319.
  37. ↑ "Immunology of Organ Transplantation". en.ustc.findplus.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 2017-07-31.
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