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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2010

Thavam Chenthan Thambi-Pillai, MBBCh FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Medical Association
  • Am Soc of Transplant Surg
  • Assoc of Prog Dir in Surg
  • Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Assoc
  • Western Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

1508 W 22nd St Ste 101

Sioux Falls, SD 57105

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Transplant Surgery Hepato-Biliary & Pancreatic Surgery Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal cancers/tumors
  • adrenal surgery
  • pancreatic endocrine tumors
  • pheochromocytoma

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • gastric cancer
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallbladder cancer
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • liver surgery
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cancer
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Minimal Access Surgery

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • robotic surgery
  • tumor ablation

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • endocrine cancer
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • stomach cancer/tumors

Transplantation

  • kidney transplant

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • kidney injury
  • liver injury
  • liver resection

Hospital Appointments

Miami Valley Hospital

Dayton, OH

Attending

03/2006—10/2010

Sanford USD Medical Center

Sioux Falls, SD

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

11/2010—Present

Academic Appointments

Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

Dayton, OH

Assistant Professor

03/2006—10/2010

University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine

Sioux Falls, SD

Associate Professor

11/2010—Present