Dr. Manoj Choudhury is one of the well-esteemed and seniormost laparoscopic surgeons in the Northeast with 40+ years of experience. He is a pioneer in the development of Laparoscopic Surgery in the eastern part of India and has performed over 20,000 laparoscopic surgeries, including advanced surgeries.

Currently, he is the Chief Consultant at GI Surgery and Endo-laparoscopy Centre, Guwahati and a Visiting Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon at Nemcare Superspeciality Hospital, Guwahati.

He is the first surgeon from North East India to be invited for operative demonstration of Laparoscopic Surgery in International Forum, for delivering a presentation on Laparoscopic Surgery at “The European Association of Endoscopic Surgery”(EAES) Congress and for presenting his work on inguinal hernia at International Conference of Asia Pacific Hernia Society, Seoul in 2010.

He was the Senior Vice President of Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI) in 2016, Executive Council Member of The Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) from 2019-2021, and Chairman of Assam Chapter of The Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) (2015).

Dr. Choudhury completed his MBBS and Master of Surgery from Gauhati University. Since 1984, he has been successfully performing conventional Gastro-Intestinal, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic procedures. He had undergone training in laparoscopic surgery in 1993, G.I. Endoscopy in 1997 at MAMC, New Delhi, and then in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery in 1997 with Sir Cuschieri, a global pioneer and innovator in Laparoscopy, at Dundee in Scotland. He has been honoured with Fellowship of the International College of Surgeons (FICS) and the Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (FMAS).

He is the founder member of AMASI and a member of ASI, ELSA, IAGES, IASG, Association of Colo-rectal Surgeons of India, International Surgical Organizations SAGES & EAES and many other organizations.

A former Professor of Surgery in Gauhati Medical College (GMC) and Silchar Medical College (SMC), national faculty of Skill Course programme of AMASI, faculty of Fellowship course of IAGES, nominated faculty of Ethicon Institute of Endo-surgery, Mumbai, he regularly conducts and organizes workshops and CMEs to train young surgeons on Laparoscopic surgery.