Shyam Varadarajulu MD, is Medical Director of Orlando Health’s Digestive Health Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida, USA.
Shyam Varadarajulu was born and raised in Madras in India and completed his medical school at the Madras Medical College, his residency training at the Rochester St. Mary’s Hospital, and pursued a GI fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He then underwent advanced training in ERCP and EUS under the tutelage of Peter Cotton and Robert Hawes at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has spent ten years as an Associate Professor of Medicine on the faculty at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Presently, Dr. Varadarajulu is the Medical Director of the Digestive Health Institute at Orlando Health and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida. His research focus is on EUS-guided tissue acquisition, Interventional EUS, ERCP, and Pancreatic endotherapy. Previously, he was the Associate Editor for the American Gastroenterological Association’s official journal “Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology” and the official journal of the Japanese Endoscopic Society “Digestive Endoscopy”. He is a co-editor of the most widely read textbook on EUS and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed original articles, and 40 textbook chapters and performed at numerous international live endoscopy workshops
