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 Ravindra
K. Vegunta, M.D., FACS
Assistant Professor of
Surgery and Pediatrics Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric
Minimal Invasive Surgery
Dr. Ravindra Vegunta was born in India and graduated from
Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, in 1982. His medical
training continued abroad in India and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Vegunta completed a General Surgery Residency at Ohio
State University in 1997 and a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
at Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, in 1999.
He was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery and
Pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center,
Kansas City in 1999.
He joined our faculty in August of 2000 and is Assistant
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics. He is Co- Director of
the Basic and Advanced Laparoscopic Skills Courses and the
Robotic Skills Course for the General Surgery Residency.
He was the 2003-2004 recipient of the UICOMP ‘Outstanding
Teaching Award’.
Dr. Vegunta is the Director of
Pediatric Minimal Invasive Surgery for the Children’s
Hospital of Illinois located in our main teaching facility.
Dr. Vegunta is a member of the Society of Laparoendoscopic
Surgeons, the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group and
a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons. He has
numerous publications on Minimal Invasive Surgery and has
conducted cancer research involving neuroblastoma with the
Ohio Chapter of the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Vegunta lives in the Peoria area with his wife, Dr.
Suneela Vegunta, and their two children.
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