Dr Chowbey has worked with singular determination to develop, evaluate and propagate Minimal Access Surgery in India by educating and training others in the art of this surgery.

In 1996, he established the Minimal Access & Bariatric Surgery Centre at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, the first of its kind in the Asian subcontinent. This department is today a Global Centre of Excellence in the field of Endosurgery that attracts visiting surgeons from all over the world and has already introduced & trained more than 1000 surgeons to the art of Laparoscopic Surgery.

The Minimal Access & Bariatric Surgery Centre, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi conducts several training programs focusing on basic introductory courses to advanced training modules. These programs aim to help surgeons acquire skills for laparoscopic surgery by training on endo-trainer and simulators in order to familiarize students with the art of operating under 2D videoscopic guidance for enhanced hand-to-eye coordination.

These training programs include series of seminars, clinical assessments and case discussions on basic instrumentation, their use and maintenance, intricacies of surgical procedures, complications and their prevention, monthly audit of all the cases performed in the previous month, to check on case assessment, instrument assessment, procedural difficulties, complications and to discuss ways of improving patient care.

The department has an exhaustive video / CDs library (edited / unedited) of basic and advanced laparoscopic surgical procedures recorded in digital system. These are utilized for training candidates through video discussions on previously operated patients, critical evaluation of procedures and also serve as future references of techniques used in handling difficult and unexpected situations.

The National Board of Examinations has also nominated Dr. Chowbey as the Convenor for conferring a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery from the year 2001. The Minimal Access & Bariatric Surgery Centre at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi was the first centre in the country recognized to award this fellowship.

Dr Chowbey has also conducted over 200 workshops and taught all over the country and abroad to popularize the concept of minimal access surgery. He is a Faculty at the Ethicon Laparoscopic Training Centre at New Delhi from 2003 onwards and was also invited as "World Congress Teaching Faculty", one amongst three eminent surgeons to conduct live surgery and train delegates at the 7th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery at Singapore in 2000.

Continuing with his passion to educate and train increasing number of young doctors in the art of Minimal Access Surgery, Dr. Chowbey has recently edited a book "Endoscopic Repair of Abdominal Wall Hernias" that crystallizes the enormous experience of a team of minimal access surgeons who are leaders in the field of laparoscopic hernia repair. He has over 100 publications to hiscredit.

His passion for teaching has also led him to undertake several editorial positions in various journals:

	Editor, Journal of Minimal Access Surgery (JMAS), 2004.
	Author, Special Issue on Laparoscopic hernia repair, World Journal of Surgery, France, 2004
	Honorary Section Editor for the Minimal Access Surgery Section for Hospital Today (Mediworld Group of Pubications), 2004
	Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Annals, IMA Academy of Medical Specialties (IMAAMS), 2003
	Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of BH Journal of Applied Medical Sciences (BHJAMS), 2002
	Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Interational Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GUT), Indian Edition, 2001
	Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Indian Journal of Surgery, the official publication of Association of Surgeons of India, 2000.
	Guest Editor of special issue on Minimal Access Surgery for Journal of International Medical Science Academy (JIMSA), 2000
	Associate Editor for Journal of Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA), 1999