Dr. Mufazal Lakdawala is an Indian surgeon and founder of the Digestive Health Institute in Mumbai.
Wiki/Biography
Dr. Mufazal was born on Friday, November 22, 1968 (51 years old in 2019) in Mumbai. His star sign is Scorpio. He went to Christ Church School, Byculla, Mumbai. He attended St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and National Medical College, Topiwala, Mumbai. He obtained his MBBS degree from Grant Medical College, Mumbai and Jamshedji Jijibhoi Group of Hospitals, Mumbai. Later, he pursued his MS in Surgery from BYL Nair Charity Hospital, Mumbai.
Childhood photo of Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 9″
Eye color: Black
Hair color: gray and white
Family, Caste and Wife
He was born into a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala’s parents
During college, he met his junior, Bollywood actress Aditi Gowitrikar. Soon, they became friends and fell in love. Dr. Mufazal and Aditi’s parents were against their marriage due to their different religious beliefs. Despite all the opposition, the two held a Hindu and Muslim wedding. Aditi converted to religion and married her long-time boyfriend Dr. Mufazal and changed her name to Sarah Lakdawala. They dated for nearly seven years and got married in 1998. In 1999, the couple was blessed with a daughter, Kiara, and in 2007, Aditi gave birth to their second child, Zhiaan. Soon, their happy married life began to have problems and they decided to divorce in 2008. Their different lifestyles were reportedly the reason for their discord; as Aditi began her career in modeling and acting, while Mufazal continued to practice as a doctor.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala and Aditi Gowitrikar
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala with Aditi Gowitrikar and their children
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala and Kiara Lakdawala
Dr. Mufazal Lakdawala’s son Zhian
After his divorce from Aditi in 2009, Mufazal got married for the second time in 2011. He married Priyanka Kaul Lakdawala from Goa, who works at the Institute of Digestive Health in Mumbai. Soon after their marriage, the couple was blessed with a baby boy named Kiaan. In 2020, Priyanka gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and their names are Aari Muffazal and Miaa Muffazal.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala and Priyanka Kaul Lakdawala
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala and his son Kiaan
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala’s twins
Profession
He served as a lecturer at BYL Nair Hospital, a teaching hospital in Mumbai. In 2004, he received training in advanced laparoscopic colorectal surgery with Professor Seon Hahn Kim in Seoul, South Korea. In 2005, he received training with Piet Pattyn at the Department of Gastric Surgery, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium. In 2006, he received training in bariatric surgery with Raul Rosenthal at Cleveland Clinic, USA. He is one of the surgeons who performs the most single-incision sleeve gastrectomies in the world. In India, he was the first surgeon to perform laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery. He performed a sleeve gastrectomy on a 30-year-old woman who had unexplained body pain and live worms in her bile duct. He performed a sleeve gastrectomy on one of the youngest patients of his career, a 17-year-old boy named Jayesh Malukani. He also performed bariatric surgery on a Chinese man who weighed 285 kg (627 lbs), one of the heaviest men in Asia.
In 2004, he founded the Digestive Health Institute in Mumbai, India’s first centre of excellence for bariatric surgery. In the same year, he was appointed Chairman of the Institute of Minimally Invasive Healthcare Services at Saifee Hospital.
dispute
In 2017, the world’s heaviest Egyptian woman, Emam Ahmed (500 kg), was taken to Saifee Hospital in Mumbai, India, for bariatric surgery, with Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala in charge of her surgery. Later, Emam’s mother and sister accused Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala of not treating Emam properly, with Emam’s sister calling Muffazal a liar in one of her live videos. Saimma, Emam’s sister, said in an interview,
Emam has not recovered at all. She has been in a critical condition for the past month and a half and is taking a lot of medication to suppress brain activity.”
Dr. Mufazal Lakdawala and Iman Ahmed
Dr. Muffazal said in his defence,
Eman is fine and doing well. She is recovering well and only needs a CT scan to determine her neurological status. In fact, for the first 15 days after Eman started treatment, everything was normal for Saimma, but when she recovered, we suggested taking her back to Egypt and Saimma started making all this trouble because she didn’t want to take her sister back to Egypt for financial reasons. It was not only a challenge, but also a humanitarian cause. We couldn’t see her lying like that, so helpless, waiting to die. The risk in this case was 99%. I think now, we gave her a chance to live. If she can get the right physical therapy and wants to walk, Eman will have to make an effort. ”
Main title
- Chair of the International Federation of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders Societies (IFSO) Position Statement Committee
- Board member of Asian Endoscopic Surgery Task Force (AETF)
- Member of the Asia Pacific Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (APMBSS)
- Director of the Asian Consensus Conference on Metabolic Surgery (ACMOMS)
- Director of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Department, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai
- Chairman of the Expert Advisory Committee of Men’s Health Magazine
Awards, Honors and Achievements
- 1996 Silver Medal for Shirin Mehtaji’s Lecture on “Obstructive Jaundice”
- Named “Humanitarian of the Year” by the All India Human Rights Association in 2007
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala at an IFSO event
Hospital Address
Institute of Digestive Health, Address: L301, 3rd Floor, Trade View, Oasis City, Gate No 4, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli, Mumbai – 400018, Near Starbucks Kamla Mills
Favorite things
- Attire: Blazer, blue jeans, white T-shirt or shirt and brown shoes
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, when asked about his experience as a successful surgeon, he said,
The journey of a middle-class Muslim boy from Bhendi Bazaar to become the surgeon to the Vice President of India was exciting to say the least. No one in my family was a doctor to guide me in this journey. It was a personal journey with ups and downs but that did not stop me from my goal of achieving greatness in the field of surgery. I put in a lot of hard work and spent countless sleepless nights but with one goal in mind: to save another life in some way. I learnt that the greatest satisfaction a person gets is not from making a ton of money but from giving back to the less privileged.”
- He won a gold medal in anatomy in his first year of medical studies.
- He has performed bariatric surgery on many prominent 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 surgical demonstrations in almost all Asian countries.
- His hobbies include playing cricket and photography.
- He has also played for the Mumbai Under-19 cricket team and has played national-level cricket.
- He follows a non-vegetarian diet.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala eats duck and rice
- He is a fitness freak and goes to the gym regularly to work out.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala at the gym
- He is the author of the book Prescription for the Right Diet: From India’s Leading Bariatric Surgeon (2016).
- He was known as Dr. Murphy.
- When asked in an interview what his most prized possession was, he said,
My watches. Each watch has a story. My most precious one is an Audemars Piguet that my wife bought for me when my son Kiaan was born. It has his name, time and date of birth engraved on it.”
- In August 2020, Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, Dr. Gautam Bhansali and their team members were invited on The Kapil Sharma Show to commend their contribution to the society during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala on the Kapil Sharma Show
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