• Senior Consultant, Minimally Invasive, GI Surgery & GI Oncology at Gleneagles Health City, Chennai (2017 - 2019)
• Assistant Professor GI Surgery at GB Pant Institute of PGMER & MAMC, New Delhi (2014 - 2016)
• Senior Registrar GI Surgery at GB Pant Institute of PGMER & MAMC, New Delhi (2012 - 2014)

• Associations of Surgeons of India
• Indian Chapter of International Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (IHPBA-I)
• Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG)
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT)
• Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Founder member of Health Central (Multispeciality clinic – Right Cure LLP)

• Distinction in ENT in MBBS
• JRD Tata student scholarship during MBBA in 2003
• B. Braun Award for outstanding achievement in PG medical studies in Surgical Gastroenterology in 2010
• IHPBA Indian Chapter Travel Bursary award in 2010
• Best Session paper at Indian chapter IHPBA 2010
• IASG Travel Bursary award in 2011
• Best poster award at II ILS 2014

• Saravanan MN, Singh B, Ravindranath K, Raghavendra Rao RV. Episodic jaundice due to an intrahepatic biliary cystadenoma with biliary stricture masquerading as hydatid cyst. Trop Gastroenterol 2010;31(4):332-5. PMID: 21568156 
• B Singh, K Venugopal, M Samiullah, MN Saravanan, M Rela. Extended Right hepatectomy. In: Chattopadhyay TK, Sahni P, Pal S (eds). GI Surgery Annual, Vol. 18. Supplement on operative procedures: Liver. New Delhi: Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, 2011:24-8. 
• B Singh, K Venugopal, M Samiullah, M N Saravanan, DJ Bora, M Rela. Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation: Graft implantation. In: Chattopadhyay TK, Sahni P, Pal S (eds). GI Surgery Annual, Vol. 19. Supplement on operative procedures: Liver transplantation. New Delhi: Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, 2012:31-5 
• M N Saravanan, Mathai V, Kapoor D, Singh B. Fractured metallic biliary stent causing obstruction and jejunal perforation. Asian J Endosc Surg 2013 Aug;6(3):234-6. doi: 10.1111/ases.12033. PMID: 23879419 
• C Nagendranath, MN Saravanan, C Sridhar, V Mathai. Peroxide enhanced endoanal 
• ultrasound in preoperative assessment of Complex fistula in ano. Tech Coloproctol 2014;18:433-8 PMID: 24030783 
• Saravanan MN, Venugopal K, Singh B. Extrapulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with synchronous involvement of liver and appendix. Clin Cancer Investig J 2016;5:175 7 
• Saravanan MN, Raghavendra Rao RV. Oral glucose tolerance test for preoperative assessment of liver function in liver resection. Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 2017;21(1):1-10. 
• Saravanan MN. Two Field versus three Field Lymphadenectomy in Carcinoma Esophagus: Current Perspectives. Clin Surg 2016; 1: 1267 

Publications arising from abstracts submitted to learned societies: 

• Oral glucose tolerance test – a useful predictor of outcomes in Liver resections MN Saravanan, B Singh, K Ravindranath, RVR Rao. Trop Gastroent 2010; 31(3) S1:S36 
• SIRS and Persistent Early Organ Failure: redefine high-risk in Acute Pancreatitis? MN Saravanan, R Maheshwari, B Singh, RVR Rao. Pancreatology 2011;11(S1):13 
• Cystic Lesions of Pancreas Mimicking Cystic Neoplasms: Lessons Learnt. MN Saravanan, B Singh, RVR Rao. Pancreatology 2011;11(S1):57-58 
• MELD can predict outcomes in Liver resection: Stretching too far. MN Saravanan, B Singh, K Ravindranath, RVR Rao. Trop Gastroent 2011; 32(3) S3:S3 
• ISGLF, 50:50 criteria or Peak bilirubin: What defines Postoperative Liver failure better? MN Saravanan, B Singh, K Ravindranath, RVR Rao Trop Gastroent 2011; 32(3) S3:S4-5 
• Laparoscopic Liver Resections: Our Early Experience of 30 Months. M.N. Saravanan, A Javed, N Gupta, R Kalayarasan, A Agarwal. J Clin Exp Hepatol 2014:4 (S2): S87-S88 
• Role of EUS in the assessment of 16b1 lymph node in gallbladder cancer. MN Saravanan, R Kalayarasan, A Javed, P Garg, A Agarwal. HPB 2014,16(S2),100-101. 
• Ultrasonic surgical aspirator in pancreatic surgery. MN Saravanan, A Agarwal, BG Vageesh. HPB  2016, 18 (S1):e600 
• Proximal splenoadrenorenal shunt: a safe and effective alternative in non cirrhotic portal hypertension. N Prithiviraj, MN Saravanan, A Agarwal, A Javed. HPB 2016, 18 (S1):e600 
• EUS FNAC of the interaortocaval lymph node in selecting patients for curative surgery in gallbladder cancer A. Agarwal, MN Saravanan, R Kalayarasan. HPB 2016,18 (S1):e600 
• Laparoscopic radical cholecystectomy is worthwhile! BG Vageesh, A Agarwal, MN Saravanan, R Kalayarasan, A Javed, HH Nag. HPB 2016, 18(S1),e473 
• Laparoscopic vs open pancreaticoduodenectomy: a comparative study. BG Vageesh, S Godhi, MN Saravanan, A Javed, HH Nag, A Agarwal. HPB 2016, 18(S1),e154 
• Well differentiated lymphnodal neuroendocrine tumour: can they be primary? N. Prithiviraj, S Godhi, MN Saravanan, P Sakhuja, A. Agarwal. HPB 2016, 18(S1),e455 
• Extra hepatic portal venous obstruction with or without portal biliopathy-intra operative portal pressure measurements: a comparative study. V Varshney, MN Saravanan, A. Agarwal, N. Prithiviraj HPB 2016, 18 (S1),e306 
• Laparoscopic liver surgery program: An early experience from an Indian centre. N Prithiviraj, A Agarwal, M N Saravanan, A Javed, H H Nag, R Uppal. HPB 2016, 18(S1), e278