Dr. Gaurang Shah
Dr. Gaurang Shah
M.B.B.S., M.S. (General Surgery)- Gold Medalist
General and Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeon
OPD Timing:
Monday to Saturday: 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM
Monday to Friday: 04:00 PM to 06:30 PM
Profile Summary
Specialist Gastrointestinal & Colorectal Surgeon Compassionate care. Advanced expertise. Multilingual support.
Dr. Gaurang Shah is a highly experienced gastrointestinal and colorectal surgeon who brings over two decades of surgical excellence to his patients. With more than 10,000 procedures performed across India and Australia, he offers a rare blend of technical skill, holistic care, and genuine empathy.
After graduating with top honors from MS University of Vadodara in 2000 and earning a Gold Medal in General Surgery in 2005, Dr. Shah moved to Melbourne with his family in 2007. He completed his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) at Alfred Health (six years of full-time training)—one of Australia’s leading quaternary hospitals affiliated with Monash University.
Dr. Shah has trained and worked extensively in colorectal surgery at Alfred, Frankston, Austin, Ballarat, and Townsville hospitals. His areas of expertise include:
- Colorectal cancer surgery, including rectal cancers
- Diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease
- Anorectal conditions, such as hemorrhoids, fissures, fistulae, and pilonidal sinus
- Minimally invasive techniques, including Doppler-guided hemorrhoid artery ligation, rectoanal repair, and laser treatment for fistulae
- Advanced laparoscopic procedures for gallbladder and spleen surgery, bowel resections, and peptic perforations with intracorporeal suturing
- All types of open and laparoscopic hernia repairs
- Endoscopic procedures, including colonoscopy, stricture dilatation, mucosal resection, and stent placement (GESA-accredited)
Dr Gaurang Shah is fluent in English, Gujarati, and Hindi, ensuring clear communication and comfort for patients from diverse backgrounds. His approach is calm, respectful, and deeply empathetic making even complex procedures feel less daunting.
His research involves colonic diverticular disease, various methods of database collection in healthcare and anorectal malformations.
Outside the operating theatre, Dr. Shah enjoys tennis, hiking, reading spiritual literature, and practicing meditation—activities that reflect his belief in balance, mindfulness, and whole-person care.
Education & Training
- FRACS part 2 fellowship exam Sept 2018
- FRACS Part 1 exams – 2013
- Emergency management of surgical trauma ( 28- 30th august, 2009), Racs – melbourne
- CCRisp (care of critically ill surgical PATIENT) COURSE (26-28th May 2011) Bendio medical school
- Notts – Bendigo medical school by RACS
- clear (For clinical research)– racs melbourne
- ASSET – COMPLETE IN APRIL 2013
- MOSES Sept 2016
- AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL COUNCIL PART 1 AND 2 – 2009 and 2010
- IELTS: Apr 08: 7.5 bands ( Academic module )
Expertise
- Laparoscopic and open colorectal surgery for cancer, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease
- Anorectal conditions for hemorrhoids, fissure, fistula and prolapse
- All types of hernia (Laparoscopic and Open)
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and bile duct surgery for stones
- Emergency general surgery for appendicitis, bowel obstruction, perforation, complicated hernias etc.
- Laparoscopic and open Splenectomy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy (PEG Tubes, Dilatation of stricture, EMR)
Experience
- General and Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeon, Epic hospital Ahmedabad from June 2024 onwards
- Consultant GI at Goulburn Valley Health, Shepperton from Feb 2020 to June 2023
- This role involves elective and emergency surgery, outpatient clinics, participation in oncall for consultants, attending surgical morbidity and mortality audits, Cancer multidisciplinary meetings, education of surgical trainees (residents and registrars)
- Honorary Visiting Surgeon at University of Melbourne Shepparton Medical School from Feb 2022
- Visiting consultant GI surgeon at Shepparton Private hospital, Peninsula private hospital, Knox private hospital (Melbourne) and associate consultant at Precision Integrated Medical Specialist, Melbourne
- Consultant GI at Townsville hospital from August 2019 to Jan 2020 as staff specialist as full time. This role involves elective and emergency surgery, outpatient clinics, participation in on call for consultants, attending audits and MDT, education to SET trainees.
- SET training from Feb 2013 to August 2019 – 6months in each rotation- FRACS completed in August 2019 from Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
| SET 1 | Cabrini UGI/HPB | Royal Hobart hospital Colorectal Surgery |
|---|---|---|
| SET 2 | Frankston BES | Alfred Trauma |
| SET 3 | Frankston Colorectal surgery | Sandrigham General surgery |
| SET 4 | Frankston Upper GI and Bariatric surgery | Alfred Colorectal Surgery |
| SET 5 | Alfred Upper GI and bariatric surgery | Frankston Colorectal Surgery |
- AUSTIN AND NORTHEN HEATLTH – VICTORIA
- Position : Non-Accredited Surgical Registrar, General Surgery
- Duration and rotations: Feb 2012-2013
- 3 months each in Northern hospital (GS2), TSC center, UGI Austin and Colorectal unit
- BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES – VICTORIA
- Position: Non-Accredited Senior Registrar, General Surgery
- Duration: 8th Feb 2010 until Feb 2012
- Colorectal and general surgery – 12months
- Vascular, plastics, breast and general surgery – 6 months
- Emergency medicine – 6months
- AUSTIN HEALTH, MELBOURNE – VICTORIA
- Position: Non-Accredited Registrar, General Surgery
- Duration: 1st May 2008 till Feb 2010
- Rotations
- UGI and Endocrine unit for 9 months at Austin hospital
- 3 months each in Breast, Colorectal, HPB unit at Austin
- 3 months each in Echuca, Bendigo, Epworth Private and Neurosurgery
- BARODA MEDICAL COLLEGE & SSG HOSPITAL, BARODA-GUJARAT
- Position: Assistant Professor and consultant in General Surgery
- Duration: 10th August 2006 to 31st July,2007
- August 2007 to April 2008 – Preparation for IELTS and AMC exam
- CONSULTANT GENERL SURGERY/ UROLOGY IN SAMVED HOSPITAL AND IKD INSTITUTE, AHMEDABAD, INDIA: JAN 2006 TO AUGUST 2006
- MASTERS IN GENERAL SURGERY (JULY 2002-DEC 2005) IN BARODA MEDICAL COLLEGE AND SSG HOSPITAL, MS UNIVERSITY
| DURATION | KEY ROLE |
|---|---|
| JUNE 2002-2003 | JUNIOR REGISTRAR |
| JULY 2003-2004 | SECOND YEAR REGISTRAR |
| UROLOGY/SURGICAL ICU/CARDIOTHORACICS/PLASTICS SURGERY/TRAUMA AND EMERGENCY SURGERY | |
| JULY 2004-2005 | SENIOR REGISTRAR |
| JULY 2005 – DEC 2005 | SURGICAL FELLOW |
- INTERNSHIP POSTING ( April 2001 – April 2002)
- TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Intern teaching on weekly basis at GVH since Feb 2020
- General surgical registrar teaching on weekly basis at GVH since March 2020
- Fellowship exam preparation for Alfred and Frankston fellowship candidates in April 2019 at Frankston hospital
- Tutor for Melbourne university at Austin and Northen clinical school in 2012-2013
- Tutor for Melbourne university at Ballarat Clinical school in 2011-2012
- Assistant Professor in Surgery with Baroda medical college in 2006-2007
Awards & Recognition
- Gold medal for first rank in MS General surgery in 2005 by Maharaja Sayajirao Uni And Baroda Medical College
- Gold medal for first rank amongst entire Jain community in India in General Surgery
Conference & Workshops
- GESA BASIC COLONOSCOPY WORKSHOP AT ALFRED HOSPITAL
- LAPAROSCOPIC CBD EXPLORATION BY RACS
- LAPAROSCOPIC INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR BY RACS
- HAEMORRHOID ARTERY LIGATION AND RECTOANAL REPAIR COMPLETED IN AUGUST 2022
- CADAVERIC DISSECTION FOR ABDOMINAL WALL RECONSTRUCTION MAY 2023 IN BRISBANE BY BARD GROUP
- FISTULACON 2023 AT MUMBAI, INDIA ORGANIZED BY ASSOCIATION OF COLORECTAL SURGEONS OF INDIA.
- OPERATIVE LIVE WORKSHOP ON MANAGEMENT OF HERNIA IN JUNE 2023
Fellow Membership
Membership
- The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- General Surgeons Australia
- Gastroenterological society of Australia
- Gujarat Medical council
- Ahmedabad Surgeons Association
Research & Publication
Research
- Thesis on “CONGENITAL ANORECTAL MALFORMATION” as a part of Masters in General surgery in India
- PSA 2012 at Mount Gambier – Presentation on “Quality of database in a tertiary referral hospital : Administrative vs Hospital Database”
- GSA – Annual scientific meeting at Hobart 2012 – Poster presentation on “ Quality of database in a tertiary referral hospital : Administrative vs hospital database”
- Victorian trainee weekend 2015- Presentation on role of colonoscopy in acute uncomplicated diverticulitis
- Prospective trial of ERAS vs Conventional management in elective colorectal surgery at Frankston JUNE 2019 currently recruiting patients
Publications
- Shah Gaurang, Patel Piyush, Shukla G.N.,Shah D.K.,Trivedi A.A. : Posterolateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia with acute gastric volvulus and splenic herniation: Bombay Hospital Journal, Vol 47, No. 02, April 2005
- Shah Gaurang, Desai Rasesh: Re-Recurrent Renal Stones: An Outcome of Missed Metabolic Evaluation; Bombay Hospital Journal, Vol 46, No. 3, 2004
- Shah Gaurang, Desai Rasesh: Successfully treated iatrogenic Colo vesical fistula presented in West Zone urology conference