Mr Agrawal is a senior Consultant Surgeon & Ex-Clinical Lead (Bariatrics) specializing in Bariatric (Obesity / Weight-Loss), Laparoscopic (Key-hole) & upper Gastrointestinal Surgery at Homerton University Hospital in London. He also has practicing privileges in multiple private hospitals in London, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Mr Agrawal is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Blizard Institute in Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, in London.
Mr Agrawal is a Fellow of American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) since 2016.
Mr Agrawal is Director of ‘London International Bariatric Surgery Symposium (LIBSS)’. He has successfully organised five LIBSS symposium – 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 in London. Under his directorship, a Hands-on Training Workshop – Bariatric Cadaveric Course for trainees was also organised twice at the Griffin Institute, Northwick Park & St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ in 2023 and 2024.
Mr Agrawal is Editor for a book titled ‘Obesity, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide’ published by Springer. The book has achieved >250,000 individual chapter downloads electronically worldwide since its release (September, 2015). Under his editorship, a 2nd edition of this book titled ‘Obesity, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide’ was published in 2023. The second edition has achieved >18,000 individual chapter downloads electronically worldwide since release within a year. This 2nd edition is part of the prestigious Springer Nature’s Major Reference Works (MRW) program.
Mr Agrawal is designated as ‘Master Surgeon in Metabolic and Bariatric SurgeryTM, MSMBSTM’ since 2012 by Surgical Review Corporation of USA. It was previously called ‘Surgeon of Excellence in Metabolic and Bariatric SurgeryTM (SOEMBSTM)’ & ‘Bariatric Surgeon of ExcellenceTM (BSOETM)’. He has the honour of being the Only Weight-loss / Obesity Surgeon in the UK to achieve this certification.
Mr Agrawal was invited to join Top Doctors® UK and become a member of their international medical team.
Mr Agrawal is Director of ‘Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery UK’ – a Charity Company which was set up to promote education and research in the field of bariatrics and metabolic medicine.
Mr Agrawal has the honour of being the First Post-CCT Fellow in Bariatric and Upper GI Surgery awarded under the National Surgical Fellowship Scheme through the Royal College of Surgeons of England in Taunton for a year. He was awarded Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) Bariatric Fellowship in Brugge (Bruges), Belgium for 3-months. He was also awarded Ethicon Short Term Clinical Visit Grant by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the Gastric Fellowship at National Cancer Center & Cancer Institute Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Mr Agrawal has had extensive training in UK, Belgium, Japan & India and has an experience of over 1750 laparoscopic bariatric procedures to date. In addition, he has undertaken more than 2500 general surgical procedures so far. He trains other surgeons in bariatric & laparoscopic surgery.
Mr Agrawal is actively involved in obesity research as Principal Investigator for multiple studies at Homerton.
Mr Agrawal has published widely (>130) in peer-reviewed journals, authored chapters in books, and also edited a few books so far. He has also made numerous presentations (>150) at national and international meetings.