Uthappa Mc
Dr Uthappa Mc
CONSULTANT INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGIST
Speciality
Interventional Radiology
Qualification
  • MBBS
  • FRCR
  • FRCS
Gender
Male
Location
Bengaluru,Richmond Road
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About

Dr M. C. Uthappa,  FRCS (Glasgow, UK), FRCR (London, UK), Fellowship in Interventional Radiology (Oxford, UK), CCST (UK).

                                                       

Dr. Uthappa is currently the Director of Interventional Radiology and Interventional Oncology at the Gleneagles Interventional Radiology Institute (GIRI) at Gleneagles Hospitals Richmond Road. Prior to this position, he was the Head of Interventional Radiology for the Bangalore Cluster, a major healthcare player in India. Earlier, he was also associated with Gleneagles Hospitals as the Director of Interventional Radiology and Interventional Oncology at Gleneagles Hospitals in Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai from May 2011 to April 2021. He completed his undergraduate medical training at Government Medical College, Mysore. He then obtained Basic Surgical training followed by Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology training in the UK. 

 

In 2002, he joined the Interventional Radiology team in John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals, Oxford, UK, where he spent one year training in all aspects of Interventional Radiology. In 2003 he was appointed as Consultant at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, UK where he set up a dedicated department of Interventional Radiology. He now has an experience of over 21,500 interventional radiology cases. He was an advisor for interventional Radiology for NICE, UK from 2007 to 2010. 

 

Dr Uthappa has an extensive research background with more than 45 publications and scientific articles, numerous abstracts and presentations at various national and international meetings to his credit. He is an expert in all types of interventional radiology procedures for liver cancer and these include Percutaneous Ethanol Injection (PEI), Radiofrequency Ablation (RF), Conventional Transarterial Chemoembolisation (cTACE), DC bead Embolisation, Portal vein Embolisation and Radioembolisation (SIRT).   

 

His other areas of interest include hepatic vein and IVC intervention for budd chiari syndrome, TIPSS and BRTO. He also has extensive experience in Uterine fibroid Embolisation, Embolisation in emergency cases like liver trauma, pelvic trauma, GI bleeding and bronchial artery Embolisation. He is one of the few Interventional Radiologist who has significant experience in management of post liver transplant complications. Dr Uthappa has also started the department of interventional oncology as the emerging field in cancer care. 

 

He set up one stop vein clinic for varicose veins  and was one of the first to start Prostate artery embolisation (PAE) for BPH patients in India and  also published their intital experience in peer reviewed journal. In the last two years he has set up a dedicated thyroid ablation program at manipal hospitals and successfully completed the first 100 cases of RFA for thyroid nodules in India. 

Experience

  • December 2024 Onwards - Director, Interventional Radiology and Interventional Oncology at Gleneagles Interventional Radiology Institute (GIRI) at Gleneagles Hospitals Richmond Road.
  • May 2011 to April 2021 - Director, Interventional Radiology and Interventional Oncology, Gleneagles Hospitals, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, INDIA 
  • June 2010 to May 2011 - Consultant Interventional Radiologist (Visiting consultant at Fortis Hospital,Visiting consultant at Manipal Hospital, Visiting consultant at Philomena Hospital, Bangalore,India) 
  • Mar 2010 to May 2010 - Locum Consultant Radiologist, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK 
  • Feb 2008 to Feb 2010 - Consultant Radiologist Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, INDIA 
  • Dec 2007 to Jan 2008 - Locum Consultant Radiologist, Whangarei Hospital, Northlands, NZ 
  • July 2003 to Nov 2007 - Consultant Radiologist ,Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK 
  • July 2002 to June 2003 - Fellow in Interventional Radiology, John Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, UK 
  • Oct 1997 to June 2002 - Specialist Registrar, Radiology, St Mary’s Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK 
  • Aug 1996 to Oct 1997 - Basic Surgical Training (BST) Rotation New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK
  • Feb 1996 to Aug 1996 - Senior House Officer, Orthopaedics, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, UK 
  • May 1995 to Feb 1996 - Senior House Officer, Orthopaedics, Middlesborough General Hospital, UK 
  • July 1994 to Jan 1995 - Junior Resident (SHO), Surgery,Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, India              
  • May 1994 to July 1994 - Resident Medical Officer (SHO), Jain Medical Center, Delhi, india 

Achievements

  • Successfully set up a dedicated interventional radiology service at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK. 
  • Advisor for NICE, UK from 2007 to 2010 
  • Successfully set up a first of its kind department of Interventional Radiology and Interventional Oncology for the Gleneagles Group of Hospitals, Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad, India. 
  • Asia Pacific Proctor for SIRT (Radioembolisation) for company SIRTEX, Australia 
  • Conducted the first Global Interventional Radiology symposium (GIRS 2013) in July 2013, Bangalore, India. Please see further details on www.girsindia.com 
  • Set up USIR (Dr uthappa school of interventional radiology) in 2021 to educate and train budding interventional radiologists. 

Qualifications

  • MBBS, Mysore, India-1993 
  • FRCS, Glasgow, UK- 1997             
  • FRCR, London, UK- Oct 2000 
  • CCST, UK- 2002 
  • IR Fellowship, Oxford, UK-2003 

Publications

  1. Co-author of book “Q-BASE Radiology: 1 MCQs for the FRCR” Greenwich medical media publishers, London. First published in 2000.  
  2. Co-author of book “Q-BASE Radiology: 2 MCQs for the FRCR” Greenwich medical media publishers, London. First published in 2001. 
  3. Co-author of book “Radiology Picture Tests” Greenwich medical media publishers, London. First published in 2001. 
  4. Co-author of book “Radiology for surgeons” Greenwich medical media publishers, London. First published in 2002.  
  5. Role of Metallic stents in Palliative care. Uthappa.M.C, S M Ho and P Boardman. The John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals, Oxford This paper was published in Volume 11, Number 1, 2003. Progress in Palliative Care 
  6. Balloon Dilatation for Achalasia of the Cardia: a day case procedure. Uthappa.M.C, Uberoi R, Phillip-Hughes J, Boardman P. The John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford. Published in Radiology. 2003 Aug; 228(2): 594. 
  7. Changes in blood coagulability as it traverse the ischemic limb. Shankar V.K, Ray Chaudhury.S, Uthappa.M.C, Handa.A and Hands.L.J. Nuffield Department of surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Published in Journal of Vascular surgery, 2004. 
  8. Retrograde or Antegrade Double-Pigtail Stent Placement for Malignant Ureteric Obstruction? Uthappa.M.C, N.C.Cowan. Department of radiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford. Published in Clinical Radiology, may2005. 
  9. Paper published in BJR, Jan’00- “skin sparing in interventional radiology-the effect of copper filter”. 
  10. Poster presentation at the RCR annual meeting Sep’99- “skin sparing in interventional cardiology-effect of copper filter”. 
  11. Audit project presentation- “HCC screening with ultrasound for cirrhosis” at the annual meeting at the Royal society of medicine, London-july’99. 
  12. Paper presentation at Ultrasound’99 conference in Berlin- “Evaluation of HCC screening programme in cirrhosis with ultrasound at St.Mary’s hospital”. 
  13. Case report published in BJU International, Apr’02- “Nephrographic dilemma-CT confirmation of a venous anomaly”. 
  14. Case published in BJR, Feb’02- “Retrocaval Ureter-MR appearances”. One of the images was selected for the front cover of the same issue. 
  15. Poster presentation at UKRC June 2002 at Birmingham-"3D rotational angiography of renal transplant artery: technique, preliminary results and dose measurements” 
  16. Poster presentation at UKRC June 2002 at Birmingham- “3D rotational angiography of carotid arteries: technique, preliminary results and dose measurements” 
  17. Audit poster presentation at the RCR annual meeting, Sep’02- “Consent in interventional radiology” 
  18. Co-author in a chapter with Dr. M. J. Kellett- “Interventional Radiology in Malignant Urinary Tract Obstruction” for the text book named Interventional Radiology in cancer, to be edited by A. Adam, R. Dondelinger, P. R. Mueller, Springer-Verlag publishers. 
  19. Paper on a prospective study on Prostate biopsy and local anaesthetic acceptance (combined study from St.George’s and Central Middlesex Hospital). 
  20. Poster presentation at RSNA-2002 “A pictorial review of CT features in abdominal tuberculosis” 
  21. Poster presentation at RSNA-2002 “Look after your lead coat and the lead coat will look after you” 
  22. Poster abstract sent to ECR-2003 “A pictorial atlas of retrograde ureteropyelography” 
  23. Paper on “Enhanced Carotid Duplex for Confirmation of Occlusions and Sub-Occlusions” 
  24. Co-author of paper presentation at BSIR meeting, 2008 UK. 
  25. Invited speaker at the recent International hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases conference, 2009 in Bangalore. 
  26. Invited speaker at the recent Chronic liver diseases symposium, 2009 in Bangalore. 
  27. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC; Prostate artery embolization: An initial experience from an Indian perspective,Polish Journal of Radiology. 2018;83:604-609. 
 
  28. Singhal S, Kundaragi N, Jaganathan S, Uthappa MC, Sebastian B; Inadvertent Dialysis Catheter - An Interventional bailout!!!!!!, J Clin Interv Radiol; 02(02): 114-117 
 
  29. Singhal S, Madhurkar R, Rao KS, Sebastian B,Uthappa MC; Role of Pre-operative Embolization for Hypervascular Cherubism: A case report, J Clin Interv Radiol; 02(02): 121-125 
 
  30. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC, The Glove Paradox, Journal of Clinical Interventional Radiology, J Clin Interv Radiol; 02(03): 20 
 
  31. Singhal S, Uthappa MC, Direct Percutaneous Embolization of a lymphocutaneous fistula, J Clin Interv Radiol; 03(01): 065-066. 
 
  32. Singhal S, Uthappa MC. “DOUBLE TROUBLE” : Preoperative embolisation in a case of Double rupture of hepatic hemangioma during pregnancy, J Gastrointestinal Abdominal Radiol ISGAR 2019;2:64–68 
 
  33. Singhal S, Uthappa MC; Endovascular management of Varicose Veins: A review of literature, J Clin Interv Radiol; (Accepted) 
 
  34. Singhal S, Uthappa MC; Role of a Checklist to Improve Patient Safety in Interventional Radiology, J Clin Interv Radiol; (Accepted)  
  35. Singhal S, Uthappa MC; Peri-procedural Coagulation Status in Percutaneous Interventions, J Clin Interv Radiol; (Accepted) 
 
  36. Singhal S, Sebastian B,Uthappa MC; Young Hypertensive: An Endovascular Rescue, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15634 
 
  37. Singhal S, Sebastian B,Uthappa MC; Recurrently Painful Meals: An Endovascular Rescue, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15646  
  38. Singhal S, Sebastian B,Uthappa MC, Madhurkar R; Accessory Hepatic Vein Stenting in a case of Budd Chiari syndrome, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15765 
 
  39. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC; A difficult path taken: TIPS, EURORAD, DOI:10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15750  
  40. Singhal S, Sebastian B,Uthappa MC; IVC Filter: A Failed Retrieval, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15827 
 
  41. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC; Percutaneous treatment in Post Transplant Ureteric Stricture, EURORAD, DOI:10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15868 
 
  42. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC; Osteoid Osteoma : Radio- frequency Abalation, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15926 
 
  43. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC; A bleeding haemangioma: Endovascular rescue, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15979 
 
  44. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Uthappa MC; Endovascular treatment in varicocoele, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.15908 
 
  45. Singhal S, Sebastian B, Madhurkar R,Uthappa MC; Endovascular treatment in HCC with an extrahepatic collateral artery, EURORAD, DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE. 15745 
 
  46. Regular Speaker in various national and international meetings from 2009 onwards.

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