List of Distinguished Life Members of World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons

A Mohamad Sayed Ahmad Alfaki (Qatar) Anjila Yakalage Barreira Amaral (Portugal) Deepa Srinivasan () A Yasemin Karageyim Karsidag (Turkey) Anolue Fredrick (Indonesia) Deepak Chawla (India) Abayneh Admassu Abayneh (Ethiopia) Antonio Morries (Ghana) Deepak Kumar Gupta (India) Abdel Kato Sebbaale (Uganda) Antonio Valdes Morris (Ghana) Deepak PJ Chan (China) Abdel Rahman Hassan Abu Sabei (Qatar) Anurag Ramkrishna Nema (India) Deepak Singhal (India) Abdelhay Mohamed Ahmed Ali (Ireland) Aosama Rasheed Abdullah () Deepakendu Mitra (India) Abdelmonim Bashir Yagoub Ali (Sudan) Araz Asi Mahmud (Iraq) Demet Dikmen (Turkey) Abdolmajid Ghaedizadeh (Iran) Archana Dhaewan Bajaj (India) Deniz Erturk Coskun (Turkey) Abdolreza Pazouki (Iran) Archana Jain (India) Derek PS Chan (Hong Kong) Abdul Haque Ansari (KSA) Arie Adrianus Polim (Indonesia) Dhan Karkee (Nepal) Abdul Kareem Jabbar Ghadhban (Iraq) AS Abdul Razak Al-Sweidan (KSA) Dhananjay Kumar (India) Abdul Kato Sebbaale (Uganda) AS Bansal (India) Dharam Paul (India) Abdul Sattar Paigham (Afghanistan) Asha Sharma (India) Dharmendra Prabhat Sing Parmar (India) Abdullab Abdulwahid Salman (Iraq) Ashees Lal Pravin (India) Dheeraj Mulchandani (India) Abdullab Sh.AM (Kuwait) Ashish Mody (India) Dutta Siva Sankar (India) Abel Alejandro Garibaldi (USA) Ashon Sa’Adi (Indonesia) Duygu Isil Gencer (Turkey) Abhijit Biswas (India) Ashwini Gaur (UK) Duzgun Korkmaz (Turkey) Abhishek Kakkar (India) Aswini Kumar Mishra (India) E Aleksamdrovna Serfeenkova (Russia) Abi Sukrisno (Indonesia) Athar Ali (Tanzania) Eatot Nyarumentene A Winarno (Indonesia) Abiye Hailu Gebre-Ab (Ethiopia) Atul Sardana (India) Ebenezer Samuel Nkom (Nigeria) AboulMahsen (Saudi Arabia) Avalapati Hari Prasad (India) Ebru Ozturk (Turkey) Adeyeni Oladeji Laosebikan (Canada) Aydin Kilinc (Turkey) Ebwell John RS (Indonesia) Aditomo Widarso (Indonesia) Aydin Kosus (Turkey) Ekaterina Vasileva Kaloyanova (UAE) Adnan Fatih Esen (Turkey) Az Javed Ahmad (Pakistan) Elif Meseci (Turkey) Ah See Ng () Azhar Musa Al-Toriahi (Iraq) Eman Mohammed kasim (Saudi Arabia) Ahmad Aurngzab (Pakistan) Bansal Ramdas (India) Emel Turkoglu (Turkey) Ahmad Chammat (Saudi Arabia) Basheer Anwer Bakar (Iraq) Emre Erdogdu (Turkey) Ahmad Nabil M Khafagy (Uganda) Basima Shamkhi Jabar (Iraq) Eser Evrim Eren (Turkey) Ahmed Abdul-Khalik Zahab (KSA) Bassam Adil Ghazalah (UAE) Esra Esim Bugukhayrak (Turkey) Ahmed Alwan Kareem (Iraq) Bejoy Philip (India) F Ahmed Aly El-Fakharany (Saudi Arabia) Ahmed Eltigani E Hussain (Ireland) Belgin Fusun Selam (Turkey) F Elrahman Elhag Edris Mohammed (UAE) Ahmed Fakhri Omer (Iraq) Benudhar Ray Ramsayer (India) Fadhi Yaba Muhamed (Iraq) Ahmet Batki (Turkey) Bhamini Naresh Bhatia (India) Faiz Naqbool Fazili (India) Ahmet Hamdy Dabash (KSA) Bharti Jain (India) Farah Naaz (India) Ahmet Hulusi Teksen (Turkey) Bharti Singh (India) Fatih Adanacloglu (Turkey) Ahujakumar (India) Bhaskar Joyti Paul (India) Fatih Dogru (Turkey) Ajay Padmakar Chodhary (India) Bhoopinder Jit Kaur (India) Fatima Zohra Ashraf (Turkey) Alaa AK Mohammed (UAE) Bhupesh Dayal (India) Fatma Nur Cetinkaya (Turkey) Alaa Mohsin Mohammad (Iraq) Bhushan Kumar (India) Fawzia AM Jadallah (Dubai) Alemseged Janka Dube (Ethiopia) Bichhanda Mohanty (Botswana) Firoz Khan MH Mohammed Haneefa (India) Alexandre MS Roque Ambrosio (Portugal) Bilal Mohid Baker (Jordan) Fransiska Mochtar (Indonesia) Ali Mohammed Mahmnd (UAE) Billur Demiro Gullari (Turkey) Fuat Eserol (Turkey) Ali Raza Brohi (Pakistan) Birendra Kumar (India) Gamal Samay Mahfouz (KSA) Ali Riza Sozenoglu (Turkey) Brijesh Kumar Sharma (India) Gamze Erdem (Turkey) Alice M Salvador (Philippines) Bulent Arici (Turkey) Gani Oladosu Salaudeen (Nigeria) Alireza Khalaj (Iran) Bulent Kars (Turkey) Gazala Khan (Pakistan) Allah AK Mohammed (UAE) Bulent Tekin (Turkey) Gazi Yildirim (Turkey) Alparslan Baksu (Turkey) C Anthony Okonkwo (Nigeria) Gazi Yildiz (Turkey) AM Abdulrahman Al-Zakari (UAE) Calderon Maria (Philippines) Gede Widi Mariada (Indonesia) Amaechi Francis Neozi (Nigeria) Carlo Cajes Gurrea (Philippines) Geetha Puliyath (India) Amani Ahmed Mohamed Ali (UAE) Chandra Prakash Jain (India) George Fanuel Jumba (Kenya) Amardeep Singh Bansal (India) Chee Fah Chia (Taiwan) Ghada Siddig Abdin Mohammed (Sudan) Aminur Rahman (India) Chetna Gulabani (India) Gheni Hashim Mohemmod (Iraq) Amir Abbas Manouchehri (Iran) Chittapu Pardha Saradhi Rao (India) Girish Panday (India) Amir Vejdan (Iran) Chittapu PSR Rauf (Republic of Maldives) Gjayakrishnan (India) Amit Hindurao Sardesai (India) Christopher Ekwunife (Nigeria) Gokce Anik (Turkey) Amru Sofian (Indonesia) Cromwell HM Mwakirungu (Kenya) Gokge Zeynep Uslu (Turkey) Anas Yousif Yakoob (India) Daljit Kaur Uppal (India) Gokhan Sabah (Turkey) Andhra Narasimha Reddy (India) Danish Javed (India) Gokmen Iyigun (Turkey) Anisha Kellogg (India) David Kiragu (Kenya) Gonca Yetkin Yildirim (Turkey) Anita Roy (India) Deb Narayan Samanta (India) Gorantla Lakshmi Narayana (India) Anjali Kumar (India) Deepa Malhotra (India) Gulsen Barcinli (Turkey) vii List of Distinguished Life Members of World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons

Gulten Gurgan (Turkey) Khaled Ahmad Kayed (UAE) Mohammed Hasan Jaafar (Iraq) Gunjan Sabherwan (India) Khalifa Ali Al Jabri (Oman) Mohammed Hussain (Iraq) Gupta Sib Sankar Mohapatra (India) Khalil Yahia Mohamad (UAE) Mohd Niyaz (India) Hachem Juma Yasin (Iraq) Kiran Noshar Mevawalla (India) Mohd Shafi Niaku (India) Hadi Touzandehjani (Iran) Kirana Bala Dash (India) Mohd. Omar Almoghanam (Saudi Arabia) Haider Abid Aun Ali Al Zubaidy (Iraq) Kishore Kumar Satpathy (India) Mohd. Shakir Huwaish Alkoubaisy (UAE) Haider Hasan (Iraq) Koka Sreedevi (India) Mohini Raghvendra Goswami (India) Hamid Abohari Sharifian (UAE) Koray Ozbay (Turkey) Mohmoud M Abdulrazek (Egypt) Hamid Reza Tajari (Iran) Krishna Mohan (USA) Mohsen Aminpour (Iran) Hana Shaheed Kadim (UK) Kulwant Rai (India) Mohsin Hayder Kassar (Yemen) Hani Amin Ismail (USA) Kunigal A Shivakumar (UK) Mokhtar Ali Mohamed Hassan (UAE) Hanom Husni Syam (Indonesia) Kushum Sharma (India) Monika (India) Hari Prasad Reddy Muppala (India) Lale Wetherilt (Turkey) Mrinal Param Kinkar (India) Harish Bassi (India) Lameck Zimba (Zambia) Muftah Abdulla Suwan (Libya) Hasan Majed Al-Dossary (KSA) Lateefa Abdulla Al Naeemi (UAE) Muhammad Abdullah Hussein (Iraq) Hassan Hadi Yousif (Iraq) Latifa R Al Buainain (Baharin) Muna Ahmed Al-Shehhi (UAE) Hassan Housaen Alhakeem (Syria) Latitha Kamini (India) Munevver Hosgor (Turkey) Helmy Abdul Khalek Aboul Zahab (KSA) Laurent Marcel Hochart (Canada) Munir Ahmad Rathore (United Kingdom) Hemant Rakesh (India) Lawa Hussein Abdulla (Iraq) Munirathnasri Nagappa (India) Henny Meitri (Indonesia) Leo Francis Nuval Aquilizan (Philippines) Munther Moh. Adnan halabi (Syria) Himmat Singh Rathore (India) Leonie-Martha Okaraga (Nigeria) Murat Mehmet (Turkey) Hisham Ali Maghraby (UAE) Lilly Kutty Benny (India) Muraveva Natalia (Russia) Hussain Khalifa Kadhem (Iraq) Liqaa Reyadh Al-Khuzaee (Iraq) Mustafa Mohd. Ramdam Bulugma (Libya) Hussein Omar El-Bernawi (Libya) Lovina SM Machado (Oman) Mutasim suleiman Daffalla (Ireland) Ibrahim Halil (Turkey) Luset Ince Koparan (Turkey) Muthukumarassamy Rajakannu (India) Ibrahim M Hassen (Ethiopia) Ma Ana Capucao Pangan (Philippines) Nada Abidalhur Alebrahimi (Iraq) Ibrahim Onur Ozen (Turkey) Madhu Sinha (India) Nadia Tarak Barakat (Iraq) Ichnandy Arief Rachman (Indonesia) Madhulika Sinha (India) Nadire Sevda Idil (Turkey) Iman Kamal Mallak (UAE) Madhuri Prakash (India) Naimaa Khatoon Chaudhary (India) Imtiaz Ahmed (India) Magdi Ahmed Lolah (Egypt) Naimaa Khatoon Chaudhary (India) Indira Das (India) Magdi Genawi Ali (Ireland) Nand Kishore Prasad Singh (India) Inu Mulyantoro (Indonesia) Mahavir Prasad Beniwal (India) Nandan Krishana Mohan (India) Irfan Karaca (Turkey) Mahesh Kumar Thakur (India) Narender Kumar Parasher (India) Isa Aykut Ozdemir (Turkey) Mahesh Man Pradhan (Nepal) Nargis Harbans Sinjagil (KSA) Isil Turan (Turkey) Mahesh Mishra (India) Natalia Muraveva (UAE) Isin Fatma (Turkey) Mahesh Prasad Khakurel (Nepal) Nausheen Fatma Mawal (India) Israa Mohsen Khalil (Iraq) Mahinda Amarasiri Mallawatantri (Nepal) Navaneethan Sivarajasingam () Jagpreet Singh Deed (India) Mahmoud Fellah Jahromi (Iran) Nayantara Bijral (India) Jaibharathi Kundur Rudrappa (India) Mahmoud Honarmand (Turkey) Nazek Habeeb Al Salman (UAE) Jaleel Hussien Hammoodi (Iraq) Mahmud Aurangzeb (Pakistan) Nazik Salameh Amarin (Jordan) Jameel Mohammed Salih (Iraq) Makkar Mulkh Raj (India) Needet Sver (Turkey) Jaspreet Singh Deed (India) Manawor Ahsan (India) Neeko Inees Chiriyankandath (India) Jassim Ahmed Fakhro (Qatar) Manoj Sukanraj Jain (India) Neelam Vinay (India) Javad Saeid Faal (Iran) Mansour Amin Mohammd Al (Saudi Arabia) Neerja Sharma (India) Jayabalan Valliappan (Malaysia) Manvita Mahajan (India) Neriman Basak Baksu (Turkey) Jayahi Bala Juneja (India) Maria Louroes Baricaua Escobar (Philippines) Nermin Kosus (Turkey) Jayasree Sundar (India) Maria Nellbvezz C Candelario (Philippines) Nese Yucel (Turkey) Jimmy Yanuar Annas (Indonesia) Marie Victoria Gantiago (Philippines) Nicola Deeb Farah (Israel) Jitendra Kumar Mangtani (India) Marlieg Meshki (Iran) Nidal Jalal Arafat (Jordan) Jo-Ann B Badua (Philippines) Mary Anne Que Villarin (Philippines) Nilgun Kustarci (Turkey) Joseph Eigbefoh (Nigeria) Mebratu Gember Tegesn (Ethiopia) Nishat Mustafa Khan (Saudi Arabia) Joseph S Shental (Israel) Meet Verm (India) Njila Yakalage Barreira Amaral (Portugal) Jude Okohue (Nigeria) Mehmet Baki Senturk (Turkey) Nocola Deeb Farah (Israel) Juvvadi Srilatha (India) Mehmet Guler (Turkey) Norman Oneil Machado (Oman) Jyoti Gupta (India) Mehmet Kaplan (Turkey) Nzayisenga Jean Baptiste (Zambia) Jyotsna Rao (India) Melek Buyukkinaci (Turkey) Obote Wilson Williams (Uganda) Kabiri Homa (Afghanistan) Melike Batukan (Istanbul) Oktay Erdener (Turkey) Kadan Kocatepe (Turkey) Mete Isikoglu (Turkey) Okunweme Ohiosimuan (Nigeria) Kadir Guzin (Turkey) Michael Emefiele Aziken (Nigeria) Oladapo Sunday Sotiloye (Nigeria) Kagan Kocatepe (Turkey) Minakshi Mishra (India) Omar Abd Daim (Syria) Kailash Chandra Garg (India) Mohadmmad Nadeem Aslam (Pakistan) Omar Birol Durukan (Turkey) Kajla Bansal (India) Mohadmmad Rahim Bhurgri (Pakistan) Omar Eltigani Ibrahim (Sudan) Kalingal Suja (India) Mohamad Sabri B Hassan (Malaysia) Omer Abbas Ramzi (Sudan) Kalpana Jindal (India) Mohamed Abdul Adim Elgabroun (Libya) Omertalipturhan (Turkey) Kalpana Kataria (India) Mohamed Ali Hegazy (Saudi Arabia) Omkar Prasad Sisodia (India) Kamal Abdel Gadir Mohamed (KSA) Mohamed Yehia Khalil (Qatar) Osama Elsayed Ammar (Saudi Arabia) Kandung Bowoleksono (Indonesia) Mohammad Nadeem Aslam (Pakistan) Osama Saied Algohary (KSA) Kazim Qiamuzzama (India) Mohammad Zarin (Pakistan) Ozgur Dogan (Turkey) Kesavakrishna Brundavanam (India) Mohammd Abdul (Saudi Arabia) Ozlem Ozgur Gursoy (Turkey) Khalaj Aligeza (Iran) Mohammd Ahmed Abdulla Eltom (Sudan) Oznur Gokcen (Turkey) Khalaz ARMD (Iran) Mohammd Ahmed Bella (Saudi Arabia) Pablo A. 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Padam Raj Pant (Nepal) Read Ali Sharaf (Turkey) Sudhir Kumar (India) Pallavi Subhash Patil (India) Rekha Thakur (India) Suja Kallingal (India) Pankaj Kumar Sinha (India) Riadhi Yulianto (Indonesia) Suliman Ali Elsheekh (KSA) Pankaj Malhrotra (India) Richa Saini (India) Suliman Mohamed Eldurrija (Libya) Parmalam_Ramanathan (India) Rishi P Jain (India) Lata Mendiratta (India) Parvinder Singh (India) Ritu Kaushik (India) Sumita Bachani (India) Parvinmohammadi (Iran) Ritu Mogra (India) Sumita Nayak (Kuwati) Patel Morabhai Tushar (India) Robbin Saikia (India) Suphakarn Techapongsatorn (Thailand) Pierre C Lucien Charley Trevant (Haiti) Robert Sy Amaoo (Philippines) Suresh Kallianpur Baliga (UAE) Pinar Yildiz (Turkey) Rukiye Agis (Turkey) Suresh Kammiampur Baliga (Dubai) PN Sreeramulu (India) Ruperto, Jr, Gales Kisteria (Philippines) Susanta Kumar Maiti (India) Pola Farhad Husni (Iraq) Rupinder Kaur Ruprai (India) Suseela Krishnan Kutty (India) Ponifasio Mann (Nigeria) Saad Dakhil F. Daraji (Iraq) Sushrut Ashok Puranik (India) Pooja Rajesh Vaswani (India) Sabaa Yehya Alkindialsayari (UAE) Swodeep Mohanty (India) Poonam Singh (India) Sabah Mahdi Al-Chawoosh (Iraq) Syarief Thaufik Hidayat (Indonesia) Poresh Boruah (India) Sachin Hari Deshpande (India) Tabassum Ahmed (India) Prakash Kumar (India) Sadook Naeem Nasaif (Iraq) Tahrir Abbas Ali Obaidy (UAE) Prakash Kunan (India) Sadullah Bulut (Turkey) Tarek Hussein Mohd. Abu Ayad (Egypt) Pramod Singh (India) Safana Muslim Jaffar (Iraq) Tegegn Gember Mebratu (Ethiopia) Pran Singh Pugari (India) Said IS Hassan (UAE) Thabo Matsaseng (South Africa) Prasad Khakurel (Nepal) Sajal Kumar (India) Tilahun Tesfayg Gizaki (Ethiopia) Prashant Verma (India) Sajida Parveen Shaikh (Pakistan) Trisdian Tone Niaga (Indonesia) Pratibha Garg (India) Sajira Bhasi (India) Tsegazeab Kebede Kassaye (Ethiopia) Predraq Urosevic (Belgradi) Salah Ali Osman (KSA) Tuba Gunay (Turkey) Prem Kumar A (India) Salah Kamel Saksouk (UAE) Unal Turkey (Turkey) Premal Priyakant Pancholi (India) Salah Suliman Modawi (KSA) Upasana Gupta (India) Prithvipal Rajaram Chavan (India) Salem Ali Ahmed Al-Maashani (Oman) Upsham Goyal (India) Priti (India) Salem Nasser Alharethi (UAE) Urmil Dhatarwal (India) Priti Bajaj (Denmark) Salma Omer Abdalla Ibrahim (Sudan) Usha Vishwanath (India) Puliyath Geetha (Oman) Samrita De Banerjeee (India) Usman Abaidullah (Pakistan) Pulkit Nandwani (India) Samson Chandra (Indonesia) Vandan Kumar (India) Puresh Boruah (India) Sana Abd Muslim (Iraq) Vasileios Bagiokos (Greece) Pushpa Singh (India) Sandeepa Vasudev (India) Vasireddy VVSV Prasad (India) Putri Sri Lasmini (Indonesia) Sanjay Kumar (India) Veerapol Khemarangsan (Thailand) Qasim Rashad Sleman (Iraq) Sanjay Verma (Australia) Vibha Bansal (India) Raafat Raoof Ahmed Al-Turfi (Iraq) Sanjeev Kumar Jain (India) Vibhuti Kumar (India) Rabab Hosny Gabr (UAE) Sarabjit Singh (India) Vicenia Begui Balaso (Philippines) Raed Ali Sharma (Turkey) Sarika Jindal (India) Vicenia S Balajo (Philippines) Rafat Nawaz () Satish Ramkrishna Sonawane (India) Vijay Bhusan Kalra (India) Rahime Beka (Turkey) Satrio Dwi Prasojo (Indonesia) Vijay Kumar Mishra (India) Raisan Mahdi Aljaberi (Iraq) Scott Arockia Singh (India) Raj Mulkh Makkar (India) Sedat Evlioglu (Turkey) Vijay Kumar Rajaram Naik (India) Rajasekhar Kanthaswamy (India) Seema Theraja (India) Vijay Rajsinh Dilubha Gohil (India) Rajat Aashish Mody (India) Sema Etiz Sayharman (Turkey) Vijay Ram Raje (India) Rajeev Kumar (India) Sema Kayatas (Turkey) Vincent T Yu (USA) Rajeev Mohan Seth (India) Serpil Telci (Turkey) Vinita Singh (India) Rajendra Mishra (India) Sevim Turgut (Turkey) Vinod Kumar (India) Rajendra Venkat Chivukula (India) Shafy Ali Khan SL (India) Vipin Nagpal (India) Rajesh Mittal (Sultanate of Oman) Shahed Saeed Alzaabi (Germany) Virochana Kaul (India) Rajeshwar Prasad Mishra (India) Shahrokh Azimi Dehdezi (Iran) Vishnu Jobanputra (India) Rajeshwar Reddy (India) Shailaja Chhetri (Sikkim) Gunvant Tank (India) Rajneesh Kumar Mishra (India) Shakuntala Yadav (India) Vivek Khanna (India) Rajni Gupta (Kuwait) Sheikh Md. Mahbubul Haque (Nigeria) Vivek Sinha (United Kingdom) Rakesh Hemant Shishodiya (India) Shelar Sharad Shivdas (India) Vurla Prabhavathi (KSA) Rakha Aggarwal Tayal (India) Shreekrishna Shantaram Datye (Iceland) Wahyudi Gani (Indonesia) Rama Krishna Rao Boddu (India) Shyam Sunder Bansal (India) Wilfred James Kimani (Kenya) Ramadan Ali El-Gantri (Libya) Shyambahadur Prasad (India) Wisam Hamza Abbas (Jordan) Ramesh Chandra Jain (India) Siavash Falahatkar (Iran) Yasser Saleh Sabr (KSA) Ramesh Chandra Satpathy (India) SK Leivon (India) Yeksin Helvacioglu Karatas (Turkey) Ramesh L Kodaganallur (Australia) Snehal Vishnu (India) Yousry El-Sayed Abdu Aziz (KSA) Ratan Prasad (India) Sonal Gupta (India) Yudi Mulyana Hidayat (Indonesia) Ratnasabapathy Pathmanathan (Sri Lanka) Sonika Gupta (India) Zainab Hassan Al-Khafajy (Iraq) Ravi Kant Arora (India) Soo Nyung Kim (South Korea) Zeynep Akcig (Turkey)

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