Scientific Committee

Bio:

Prof. Dr. Ravi Kumar Chittoria is a highly accomplished Senior Professor of Plastic Surgery and Associate Dean (Academic) at JIPMER, Government of India, with over 25 years of clinical, academic, and research experience. He holds MBBS, MS, MCh, DNB, PhD, DSc, and more than 15 international fellowships, including FRCS (Edin & Glas) and FACS (USA). A pioneer in the field, he performed India’s first successful cadaveric bilateral hand transplantation in a government institution and has developed 23+ clinical innovations, patents, and digital tools in plastic surgery.

Dr. Chittoria has authored 18 textbooks, 11 manuals, 6 book chapters, and published over 803 peer-reviewed articles, with extensive editorial roles across 100+ journals. He has chaired 76+ scientific sessions, organized over 1,000 conferences, and serves as advisor, examiner, and board member across numerous national bodies.

His leadership spans clinical excellence, academia, telemedicine, regenerative medicine, burns, cleft care, and research, making him one of India’s most distinguished contributors to modern plastic and reconstructive surgery.