Dr. Pankaj Kumar Bhatnagar is an accomplished, board-certified general surgeon with over 30 years of diverse clinical, academic, and leadership experience. His medical journey began in New Delhi, India, where he earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Zoology from the University of Delhi in 1979, before ultimately completing his medical degree at Maulana Azad Medical College in 1986. Relocating to the United States, he completed an Internal Medicine internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1989 to 1990. He subsequently completed a General Surgery residency at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was recognized as the Best Teaching Resident. During his early career, he also co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications focusing on vascular reconstructive procedures and thrombolytic therapy.

Dr. Bhatnagar entered private practice in 1995 as a general and vascular surgeon in Pikeville, Kentucky, where he concurrently served on the faculty at the Pikeville Osteopathic School until 2001. He then transitioned to the Freeport Health Network in Indiana, practicing general, thoracic, vascular, and bariatric surgery from 2001 to 2007. During this time, he also held a Clinical Assistant Professorship with the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Surgery from 2002 to 2007, teaching rotating students.

In 2008, Dr. Bhatnagar relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, establishing a private practice in advanced laparoscopic, general, thoracic, and vascular surgery. Operating across multiple facilities—including Centennial Hills, Mountainview, Summerlin, and North Vista Hospitals—he maintained this specialized practice until February 2025. Demonstrating profound hospital leadership, he served as the Medical Director for Woundtech of Nevada from 2014 to 2021, managing over fifteen nurse practitioners, and acted as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Centennial Hills Hospital from 2017 to 2025. Following his tenure with Omni Wound Care Physicians which began in August 2025, Dr. Bhatnagar joined Crescent Wound Care in February 2026. To complement his wound care practice and actively maintain his surgical proficiency, he currently engages in locum tenens general surgery assignments for one to two weeks each month.