Dr. M G Bhat is a senior general surgeon with extensive experience in complicated gastrointestinal surgery and laparoscopy surgery. He has performed more than 10000 laparoscopic surgeries in Bangalore. He is currently a senior surgeon with special interest in Laparoscopy and Bariatric Surgery at the Nova Specialty Hospital and also the Medical Director, for Nova Medical Centers, India.

He has obtained his MBBS (1972) and MS (1976) from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and Mangalore - India. He was awarded the Dr.TMA Pai Blue Ribbon and Gold Medal for Best Outgoing Student of the College in 1972, for obtaining the highest marks in the Medical career. Trained in England from 1978-83 and obtained the FRCS from England and Edinburgh in 1980.

Residing in Bangalore from 1987, he initiated laparoscopic surgery in 1992 in Karnataka and is now among the well-known laparoscopic surgeons in the country. He was formerly Head of Department of General Surgery at the Manipal Hospital, Bangalore from 1992 to 2005 and then at Wockhardt Hospital, Bannergatta Rd, from 2006-2010. And was singularly responsible for establishing these departments. He has special interest in laparoscopy and Bariatric surgery.

He is well known in scientific and social surgical groups and has held many executive posts in surgical and laparoscopy associations at Local, State, National and International levels. He was the Regional Tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He has been a post graduate teacher and examiner for many years and examiner for the MRCS. Many surgeons are trained under him.

He has obtained a Postgraduate diploma on Medical Law and Ethics from the National Law University of India, Bangalore and a Postgraduate diploma in Medical informatics from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is amongst the very few doctors with this qualification in the world. He was honored by the Life Time Achievement Award by the Kasturba Medical College during their Diamond Jublee Celebrations in 2003.