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Pankaj Chandak

Pankaj Chandak is an Indian-born British surgeon who made innovations in 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. He graduated from Guy's and St Thomas' University of London medical school and was an anatomy demonstrator under Professor Harold Ellis CBE.

Pankaj Chandak
M.R.C.S.Eng, FRAS
Pankaj Chandak, Royal Society of Medicine (2024)
Born
Akola, India
EducationGuy's and St Thomas' University of London
Known for3D printing in paediatric kidney transplant surgery
Medical career
Awards
  • 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

He holds an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS) and has won a number of scientific and surgical awards, including the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE) 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.

Early life and education

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Pankaj Chandak was born in Akola, India to a Marwari family and moved to the United Kingdom as a child. He 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

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As of 2017, Chandak, is a Specialist Registrar in Transplant Surgery, 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.[2][8][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 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

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Chandak has been involved in communicating science to broader audiences.[6] This has included presenting live demonstrations for the BBC,[15] Channel 5,[3] the British Science Festival 2016,[16] and London Open House. The main areas of his discussions focus on minimally invasive surgery, 3D printing and machine perfusion technology in organ transplantation.[17]

The Crown television series

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Chandak directed his transplant team and acted alongside them in Stephen Daldry's television series The Crown.[18] The team performed a simulated operation, replicating the 1951 procedure of lung surgery on George VI, originally carried out by Sir Clement Price Thomas. 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.[18][19] It was filmed in a period set at Goldsmiths' Hall in London.[20] 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.[21][22]

3D printing and paediatric organ transplant

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Involved with the British Science Association and its Science Festival, Chandak has promoted public engagement of science-inspired projects.[16][17]

In April 2017, Chandak performed live at The Royal Institution on modern-day surgery, 3D printing, perfusion machines, and antibody-suppressing drugs.[23][24][25]

He was invited to speak at The Royal Society on 3 July 2017 on the applications of 3D-printing to complex surgeries.[26] He continues to lecture on 3D printing in transplantation.[27]

BBC World Service, The Forum

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Chandak was invited as one of the key speakers discussing the early history and future innovations of transplant surgery at the BBC World Service Forum in 2017. This programme was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Christiaan Barnard's world's first heart transplant.[28]

Charity

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In 2018, Chandak's project to form a choir of children who have had kidney transplants, secured funding from Children in Need.[29]

Awards

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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,[30] The Royal College of Surgeons Lister Essay Prize and Medal 2014,[31] The Royal College of Surgeons Ronald Raven Barbers Award 2015,[32] and The Royal College of Surgeons Arnott Lecture and Medal, delivered at the British Transplantation Congress 2016.[6][32] Chandak was awarded the annual trainee surgical prize for innovation in surgery, the Norman Tanner Medal, by the Royal Society of Medicine in 2016. In addition to 3D printing in transplant surgery, he presented at this award session, outcomes in paediatric kidney transplantation surgery.[6][33]

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, he received the inaugural International Paediatric Transplant Young Scholar Award which was presented in Barcelona at the International Paediatric Transplant Association.[34]

Chandak has an interest in the history of medicine and has delivered lectures on Joseph Lister and the 'surgical journey from scalpels to robots'.[17][23] In June 2017, he delivered 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.[35][36] He has in addition been awarded The British Science Association Charles Darwin Award Lecture 2017 delivered at the British Science Festival in Sept 2017.[17] In 2023, Chandak was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the RCSE.[37]

Personal

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Chandak cites scientists Joseph Lister and Michael Faraday as influences, as well as his father, Balkishan Chandak, who worked as a general practitioner for many years.[24][35][38]

Selected publications

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  • Chandak, P. Chapter 9.1.1- Organ Donation[39]
  • Mahadevan V and Chandak P. Surgical Anatomy of the Pelvis and Perineum. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps Armed Forces 2013 Mar;159 Supp 1:i10-4[40]
  • Chandak P and Callaghan C. Immunology of Organ Transplantation. Surgery. July 2014.[41]

References

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  1. ^ "The Magazine of The City of London School Alumni Association Autumn 2015" (PDF). The Gazette. Autumn 2015. p. 12.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Pankaj Chandak, Transplant Registrar in London Hospitals". Business Cloud. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  3. ^ a b "King's Connect Asia events 2016 – Hong Kong". www.alumni.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. ^ Stojanovic, Jelena; Adamusiak, Anna; Kessaris, Nicos; Chandak, Pankaj; Ahmed, Zubir; Sebire, Neil J.; Walsh, Grainne; Jones, Helen E.; Marks, Stephen D.; Mamode, Nizam (2017). "Immune Desensitization Allows Pediatric Blood Group Incompatible Kidney Transplantation". Transplantation. 101 (6): 1242–1246. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000001325. PMID 27463537. S2CID 33420497. FLS
  5. ^ Grau, Georges E. (December 1999). "Platelet Accumulation in Brain Microvessels in Fatal Pediatric Cerebral Malaria". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 61 (3): 461–466. doi:10.1086/367960. PMID 12552430.
  6. ^ a b c d e f 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.[dead link‍]
  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. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  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: S32. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30428-2.
  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 6 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Kidney transplant: Antrim parents' gratitude after innovative surgery aided by 3D printing". BBC News. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  16. ^ a b "Swansea, UK – British Science Festival". www.storycollider.org. 8 September 2016.
  17. ^ a b c d "From kings to keyholes: surgical innovation in organ transplantation | British Science Festival". British Science Festival. 22 June 2017. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  18. ^ a b "Surgeons replace actors in The Crown's King George VI operation scene". Barrhead News. November 2016.
  19. ^ "Surgeons replace actors in The Crown operation scene". Basingstoke Gazette. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  20. ^ "The Crown: Where was it filmed?". www.radiotimes.com. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  21. ^ PA. "Surgeons replace actors in The Crown's King George VI operation scene". Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  22. ^ "Surgeon Pankaj Chandak delivers exclusive lecture on innovation in surgery". 10 August 2017.
  23. ^ a b "The Cutting Edge: Surgery from Scalpels to robots". www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2017. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  24. ^ a b "The Cutting Edge of Surgery- Surgery from scalpels to Robots". www.youtube.com. 26 June 2017.
  25. ^ "The Royal Institution: Science Lives Here". www.rigb.org. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  26. ^ "3D-Print your way to health". royalsociety.org. 8 June 2017.
  27. ^ "28th Annual British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Conference | British Society for Immunology". www.immunology.org. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  28. ^ "BBC World Service - the Forum, the First Heart Transplant".
  29. ^ "Kidney transplant children form choir". BBC News. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  30. ^ "Section Prizes" (PDF). Royal Society of Medicine Annual Report 2012/2013: 10.
  31. ^ "King's College London Surgical Society". www.kclsurgicalsoc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 July 2015.
  32. ^ a b Human Tissue Authority Annual Review Event 2016 Speaker biographies (2016). "Human Tissue Authority, Annual Review Event 2016, Speaker biographies" (PDF).{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  33. ^ "The Goodall Symposium 2017: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister". 30 May 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  34. ^ "International Paediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Young Scholars Award 2017 to Pankaj Chandak". 28 May 2017.
  35. ^ a b "Glasgow Science Festival: Exploring Lister's Legacy". www.glasgowsciencefestival.wordpress.com. 14 June 2017.
  36. ^ 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 31 July 2017.
  37. ^ "Discourse: Future of transplantation – from machines to 3D printing | Royal Institution". www.rigb.org. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  38. ^ "Popular Cheshunt GP who came to England with just £20 retires". Hertfordshire Mercury. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  39. ^ Thomas, William E. G.; Reed, Malcolm W. R.; Wyatt, Michael G., eds. (28 July 2016). Oxford Textbook of Fundamentals of Surgery. Oxford Textbooks in Surgery. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199665549.
  40. ^ Mahadevan, V.; Chandak, P. (March 2013). "The surgical anatomy of the perineum". Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 159 Suppl 1: i10–14. doi:10.1136/jramc-2013-000019. ISSN 0035-8665. PMC 5621252. PMID 23631319. S2CID 8842606.
  41. ^ "Immunology of Organ Transplantation". en.ustc.findplus.cn (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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