Dr. Prathamesh Pai — Senior Consultant Surgeon in Mumbai

Dr. Prathamesh Pai is a Senior Consultant Surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, with more than 20 years of experience. His work covers surgical oncology, head and neck oncology, and thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

His operating list stays within that field: oral cancer surgery, oropharyngeal, hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer surgery, thyroid cancer surgery, neck dissection and skull base tumour surgery.

He holds an MBBS, an MS and a DNB. His international training came through two named fellowships: he was a UICC Fellow under the ICRETT programme at Klinikum Fulda in Germany, and a Hargobind Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States.

Alongside Gleneagles Hospital he is associated with Pai Clinic and P.D. Hinduja Hospital at Khar in Mumbai, and with Tata Memorial Hospital.

What distinguishes his profile is the weight of his teaching and professional service rather than his operating list alone. He has delivered over 400 invited talks and orations at national and international conferences, and holds national and international recognition in head and neck surgery. He served as President of the Foundation for Head Neck Oncology in India from 2021 to 2023, and is the founding secretary of the Indian Society of Thyroid Surgeons — a role that places him at the origin of the organisation now representing that subspecialty in India. For patients, the practical reading is a surgeon whose thyroid and head and neck work is closely tied to how the field is taught and organised in the country.