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Two Indian-origin doctors appointed to American surgery boards
Each director will begin a six-year term in September 2026.
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Staff Reporter - Thu, 20, Aug 2026
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The American Board of Surgery / The American Board of Surgery
Shanu Nikhil Kothari and Tejal S. Brahmbhatt will begin six-year terms on the American Board of Surgery specialty boards.
The American Board of Surgery on Aug. 18 announced the appointment of five new directors to its specialty boards, including Indian-origin doctors Shanu Nikhil Kothari and Tejal S. Brahmbhatt. Each director will begin a six-year term in September 2026.
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Kothari, M.D., will join the General Surgery Board. He is chair and chief of surgery at Prisma Health in Greenville, S.C., and a professor of surgery at the USC School of Medicine Greenville. His clinical practice focuses on bariatric and foregut surgery.
Kothari received his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria. He completed his residency at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation in La Crosse, Wis., followed by a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at the Medical College of Virginia.
His clinical and research interests include bariatric and foregut surgery, as well as surgical education and training.
Kothari is also a member of the ABS Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Focused Practice Designation Exam Committee and has served as an examiner for the General Surgery Certifying Exam. He also helped develop the focused practice designation exam on bariatric surgery.
Outside the ABS, Kothari has held leadership positions as past president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The Fellowship Council, The Southwestern Surgical Congress and The Wisconsin Surgical Society.
Brahmbhatt, M.D., will join the Surgical Critical Care Board. He is an associate professor of surgery, chief of surgical critical care and program director of surgical critical care and the ACS fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
His clinical practice covers acute care surgery, including trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care.
Brahmbhatt completed his internship in general surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and his general surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He completed a fellowship in traumatology, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
His research and clinical interests include surgical education, the psychological impact of surgical education on mental health and point-of-care ultrasound.
In addition to his new role as a specialty board director, Brahmbhatt is an examiner for the ABS General Surgery Certifying Exam and an ABS examination consultant for the General Surgery Continuous Certification Assessment.
Brahmbhatt is the current president of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons and serves as the Society of Critical Care Medicine appointee to the editorial board of the Surgical Council on Resident Education.
He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Surgical Research, the American Journal of Surgery and the Global Surgical Education Journal of the Association for Surgical Education. He has appeared on Behind the Knife: The Surgery Podcast for a series on shame in surgical education.
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