• Director, Centre of Excellence in Gastrointestinal Sciences, Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala, India (Website: Rajagiri Hospital)
• Chairman, Philip Augustine Associates Pvt. Ltd., Kochi (Website: Philip Augustine Associates)

• President, Indian Pancreas Club
• Vice President, Indian Association for the Study of Liver (INASL)
• Governing Council Member, Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG)
• Founder Secretary and President of ISG, Kerala Chapter
• Governing Council Member, Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India (SGEI)
• Vice President, Association of Physicians of India (API) Kerala Chapter
• President, Indian Medical Association (IMA) Muvattupuzha Branch
• Member, Expert Committee on “Chronic Pancreatitis in India” ICMR 2007
• Member, Executive Committee, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of India
• Member, Elsevier Clinical Advisory Board (India)
• Chairman, Healthcare Sub Committee, Confederation of Indian Industry, Kerala Council

• Gastroenterologist of national and international repute. Pioneer in therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy in India
• Started the first private sector Gastroenterology unit in Kerala at Deva Matha Hospital, Koothattukulam in 1983
• Organised the best-known gastroenterology team in the country. Established the reputed Digestive Diseases Centre in PVS Memorial Hospital, Cochin in 1992. This centre was approved for postgraduate training in Gastroenterology by the National Board of Examinations till departure in 2003.
• Organised the Deva Matha Medical Research Foundation which conducted a detailed epidemiological survey of diabetes and pancreatitis in Kerala
• Founder and Managing Director of Lakeshore Hospital & Research Centre Ltd., Cochin, commissioned in January 2003, the most prestigious corporate hospital in Kerala. Also Managing Trustee of the Lakeshore Medical Research Foundation. This Foundation runs the Lakeshore Medical Library which caters to the staff of Lakeshore Hospital, especially postgraduates.
• Established the Digestive Diseases Centre (Gastroenterology Department) at Lakeshore Hospital in 2003. This Centre, which has grown to be a centre for Postgraduate training in Gastroenterology (Dip NB), also imparts advanced therapeutic ERCP training to overseas Gastroenterologists including GE fellows from the USA. The Centre has the distinction to be the first to successfully perform living donor liver transplant in Kerala. This is one of the leading comprehensive centres of Gastroenterology in the country incorporating allied departments of Hepatology, GI Surgery, GI Radiology, GI Pathology, and GI Oncology.
• Lakeshore Hospital attracted several overseas patients from countries from the Middle East, Africa, UK, Europe, and USA and was a part of Medical Tourism.
• Chairman of the Healthcare Subcommittee of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Kerala State Council. In this capacity, organized two international Conferences & Exhibition “Kerala Health Tourism 2006 & 2007” in close liaison with the Government of Kerala through its Department of Tourism. These conferences have created greater awareness about the potential of “Medical Tourism” in Kerala and India at large.
• Reported the occurrence of Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis (RPC, Oriental Cholangiopathy) for the first time in India in 1987.
• Reported for the first time, the existence of “Crohn’s Disease” in India in 1995.
• Chairman, Philip Augustine Associates Pvt. Ltd., a healthcare consultancy firm, established in 2016, which empowered small and medium hospitals in and around Kochi by establishing advanced GE centers in them. Currently running the Centre of Excellence in Gastrointestinal Sciences at Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, as a joint venture initiative.

• Padma Shri Award – 2010
• F.P. Antia Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award 2022: Indian Society of Gastroenterology
• Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award – 2011 constituted by Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC)
• Olympus-Mitra Endoscopy Award, Indian Society of Gastroenterology 1994
• ISG Kerala Chapter Annual Oration Award 2015 – Delivered Oration on “Crohn’s Disease in Kerala – a 20 Year Experience” at ISG Kerala Chapter Annual Conference held on 18th and 19th of April, 2015, in Kovalam
• Dr. P.A. Alexander Memorial Oration Award, IMA Academy of Medical Specialties, 1997
• Dr. V.C. Mathew Roy Memorial Oration Award, Association of Physicians of India, 2001
• George Thomas Kottukapally Award 2012 constituted by The George Thomas Kottukapally Memorial Trust given to an outstanding Business Personality
• Entrepreneur of the year 2012 Award constituted by Berchmans Institute of Management Studies, Changanassery
• Received K3A Business Excellence Award 2015 constituted by Kerala Advertising Agencies Association
• Winner of several medals in MBBS & MD, including the Mohan Lal Wig Memorial Gold Medal in Clinical Research (MD), AIIMS New Delhi, 1975

• Pancreatic Diseases including Chronic Pancreatitis & Pancreatic Cancer
• Chronic Liver Disease & Portal Hypertension
• Therapeutic Endoscopy
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s Disease & Ulcerative Colitis)
• Diabetes

Over 200 scientific publications in national and international journals.

Chapters

1. Chronic Pancreatitis: API Text book of medicine 6th Edition, 1999: Pages 609 – 611. Editor G.S. Sainani
2. Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: ECAB Clinical Update: Gastroenterology / Hepatology, Volume 1, Issue 2: 2008
3. Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: ECAB Clinical Update: Gastroenterology / Hepatology, Volume 1, Issue 3: 2008 (Editor)
4. Human Microbiome: Clinical Implications and Therapeutic Interventions: Chapter 3: Emerging Role of Gut Microbiota in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (page 55), Chapter 6: Gut Microbiota-Related Clinical Events and Therapeutic Interventions in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease (page 129): Editor Sabu Thomas

Books

1. Author of “Diseases of Pancreas” Philip Augustine and Cyriac Abby Philips
2. Editor “Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency”