Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala is an Indian surgeon, and he is the founder of “Digestive Health Institute” in Mumbai.
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Dr. Muffazal was born on Friday, 22 November 1968 (age 51 years; as in 2019) in Mumbai. Their zodiac sign is Scorpio. He did his schooling from Christ Church School, Byculla, Mumbai. He studied at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai. He did MBBS from Grant Medical College University, Mumbai and Sir Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, Mumbai. Later, he studied Masters in Surgery (MS) from BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai.
Childhood photo of Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 9″
Eye colour: black
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Family, Caste and Wife
He was born in a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family.
Parents of Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala
While he was in college, he met Bollywood actress Aditi Govitrikar, who was his junior in college. Soon, they become friends and fall in love with each other. Dr. Muffazal and Aditi’s parents oppose their marriage because of their different religions. Despite all opposition, the couple got married as per both Hindu and Islamic rituals. Aditi changed her religion to marry her long-term boyfriend Dr. Muffazal and changed her name to Sara Lakdawala. They dated each other for about seven years and got married in 1998. In 1999, the couple was blessed with their daughter, Kiara, and in 2007, Aditi gave birth to their second child, Ziyan. Soon, their happy married life started facing problems and they decided to get a divorce in 2008. Reportedly, their different lifestyles were the cause of the rift between them; Aditi started her career with modeling and acting, while Muffazal continued his medical profession.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala and Aditi Govitrikar
Dr Muffazal Lakdawala with Aditi Govitrikar and her children
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala with Kiara Lakdawala
Gian, son of Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala
After Muffazal’s divorce from Aditi in 2009, he married again in 2011. He married Priyanka Kaul Lakdawala in Goa, who works at the Digestive Health Institute, Mumbai. The couple was blessed with a child, Kiyan, soon after their marriage. Priyanka gave birth to twins in 2020; A son and a daughter, and their names are Aari Muffazal and Mia Muffazal respectively.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala with Priyanka Kaul Lakdawala
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala with his son Kiyan
Twin children of Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala
livelihood
He has worked as a lecturer at BYL Nair Hospital, a teaching hospital in Mumbai. In 2004, he did his training in Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery with Professor Seon Han Kim in Seoul, South Korea. In 2005, he trained in the Gastro Surgery Unit with Piet Pattin at the University of Ghent Hospital, Belgium. In 2006, he did his training in bariatric surgery with Raoul Rosenthal at the Cleveland Clinic, United States. He is one of the surgeons who has performed the most number of single incision sleeve gastrectomy surgeries in the world. In India, he is the first surgeon to perform laparoscopic gastric bypass. He operated on a 30-year-old woman suffering from unexplained body pain; Whose bile duct had a live worm inside it. He performed sleeve gastrectomy surgery on 17-year-old boy Jayesh Malukani, one of the youngest patients of his career. He has also performed bariatric surgery on a man from China who weighed 285 kg (627 lb); One of the heaviest man in Asia.
In 2004, he founded the ‘Digestive Health Institute’ in Mumbai; The first Indian center for excellence in bariatric surgery. In the same year, he was appointed as the Chairman of the ‘Institute of Minimal Access Services at Saifee Hospital’.
Controversy
In 2017, the world’s heaviest Egyptian woman Imam Ahmed (500 kg) was flown to India for bariatric surgery at Saifee Hospital in Mumbai and Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala was looking after her case. Later, Imam’s mother and sister accused Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala of not treating Imam properly and Imam’s sister called Muffazal a liar in one of her live videos. Imam’s sister Saimma said in an interview,
The Imam has not recovered at all. She is in critical condition for the last one and a half month and is taking massive amounts of medicines to stop the brain activities.
Dr Muffazal Lakdawala with Iman Ahmed
Whereas Dr. Muffazal said in his defense,
Iman is fine and doing well. She has recovered well and only has to undergo a CT scan to find out her neurological condition. Actually, everything was fine with Saimma for the initial 15 days after Iman’s treatment started, but when she recovered and we suggested that she could be taken back to Egypt, Saimma created all this drama because she Not wanting to take my sister back to Egypt for financial reasons, more than a challenge, we took it as a humanitarian cause. We couldn’t see her lying like that, so helpless, just waiting for death to come. In this case the risks were 99%. I think now we have given him a chance to live. If she does her physiotherapy properly and wants to be able to walk, Iman will have to try.’
major designation
- Chair, Position Statement Committee, International Federation of Societies of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)
- Board Member, AETF – Asia Endosurgery Task Force (AETF)
- Member, Asia Pacific Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Society (APMBSS)
- Director, Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery (ACMOMS)
- Head, Department of Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai
- Head of Men’s Health magazine’s expert advisory board
Awards, Honors and Achievements
- Silver Medal in Shirin Mehtaji Oration for ‘Obstructive Jaundice’ in 1996
- ‘Humanitarian of the Year’ by All India Human Rights Association in 2007
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala in a program of IFSO
hospital address
C/o Digestive Health Institute, L301, 3rd Floor, Trade View, Oasis City, Gate No. 4, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli, Mumbai – 400018, Near Starbucks Kamla Mills
Favourite Things
- Outfit: Blazer, blue jeans, white T-shirt or shirt and brown shoes
Facts/General Knowledge
- In an interview, when he was asked about his journey as a successful surgeon, he said,
The journey from a young middle-class Muslim boy from Bhindi Bazaar to becoming surgeon to the Vice President of India has been exciting to say the least. No member of my family was a leading doctor. It has been a journey of personal ups and downs that have not deterred me from my goal of making my mark in the surgical world. Had to work very hard and spend sleepless nights, with only one goal: somehow save the life of another. I learned that the greatest satisfaction comes not from earning large sums of money, but from giving back to the less privileged.”
- He was a gold medalist in Anatomy when he was in the first year of MBBS.
- He has performed bariatric surgery on many popular Indian politicians including Nitin Gadkari, Nawab Malik, Nitin Raut, Vinod Tawde and Venkaiah Naidu.
- He is one of the Indian surgeons who has performed live surgeries in almost every Asian country.
- His hobbies include playing cricket and photography.
- He has also played for Mumbai Under-19 cricket team and has also played cricket at the national level.
- He follows a non-vegetarian diet.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala eating duck and rice
- He is a fitness freak and works out in the gym regularly.
Doctor Muffazal Lakdawala in the gym
- He is the author of the book ‘The Eat Right Prescription: From India’s Leading Weight-Loss Surgeon’ (2016).
- He is known as Dr. Muffy.
- When he was asked in an interview what his most prized possession was, he said,
My watches. Each has its own story. The most prized is the Audemars Piguet watch that my wife bought for me when my son Kian was born. It contains his name, time and date of birth.
- In August 2020, Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, Dr. Gautam Bhansali and their team members were invited to The Kapil Sharma Show to pay tribute to their contribution towards the society during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala in The Kapil Sharma Show
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