Dr. Maneesh Sonthalia has graduated from Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata (India) and completed his Master of General Surgery from PG Hospital, Kolkata. He has done M.Ch in Plastic Surgery from PG Hospital Kolkata.
He is the director of Smile Train Programme (Providing Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Surgery to the under Privileged) in Kolkata. Till date more than 250 such surgeries have been conducted under his care.

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS ATTENDED :

• APSICON , Ahmedabad
• Instructional course in Hand & Microsurgery, GANGA HOSPITAL, Coimbatore.

• INTERNATIONAL UPDATE ON CRANIOFACIAL CLEFTS, Mumbai
• APSICON , Bangalore

• FIRST NATIONAL COURSE ON PERFORATOR FLAPS , Chennai.
• FIRST NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RAPID FLAP HARVEST ,Hyderabad .

• WORKSHOP ON AESTHETIC LASER SURGERY , New Delhi.
• SKIN EDGE 2004, Pune .

• 4th ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF CLEFT LIP,
   PALATE & CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES , Hyderabad .
• APSICON , New Delhi.

• AESURG 06 ( International Conference on Aesthetic Surgery ) , Kolkata .

• 2nd INTERNATIONAL TUTORIALS IN AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY, Mumbai

• 3rd INTERNATIONAL TUTORIALS IN AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY, Mumbai.  

• AESURG 09 ( International Conference on Aesthetic Surgery ) , Khajuraho.     

• 5TH INTERNATIONAL TUTORIALS IN AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY, Mumbai.  
• LASER SURGERY (DERMATOSURGERY) CONFERENCE ,MADRAS. 
• AESTHETIC DERMATO SURGERY (INTERACTION BETWEEN PLASTIC SURGEONS AND DERMATOLOGISTS), NEW DELHI.  

• Training for 2 weeks in Kuwait under famous Cosmetic Surgeon Dr. Abdul Reda Lari (Kuwait).