Awards & Recognition

M.Ch, AIIMS New Delhi · USI President’s Gold Medal · Lifetime Achievement Award

Four decades of distinction in surgical education, leadership, and innovation — nationally and internationally recognised.

Awards & Honours

World’s First RKT with Regional Hypothermia

Performed the world’s first robotic kidney transplantation under regional hypothermia in January 2013 — adopted at centres across four continents.

President’s Gold Medal · USI

Awarded by the Urological Society of India at its Golden Jubilee USICON meeting in Mumbai for outstanding contribution to the progress of urology in India.

Lifetime Achievement Award · NZ-USI

Awarded by the NZ Urological Society of India for outstanding lifetime contribution to the development and advancement of urology in India.

P.B. Berry Scholarship · UK

Awarded the P.N. Berry Scholarship for Higher Surgical Training in the United Kingdom (1995) — enabling advanced urological training at a leading British institution.

Kashi Ram Dhawan Gold Medal

Best Student Gold Medal in the M.S. (Surgery) examination, King George’s Medical College, Lucknow (1980).

Chakraborty Fellowship · I-AUA

Awarded the Chakraborty Fellowship by the Indian American Urological Association (1994) for distinguished contribution to urology.

Recognition & leadership

Editorial, academic and international roles that shaped global practice in minimally invasive and robotic urology.

Editorial Leadership

Best National Reviewer, Indian Journal of Urology (2013). Editorial Board Member IJU (2012–2022). Reviewer for J Urol, BJU International, Eur Urology Focus, J Endourol.

WRSE 24 Faculty

Selected as one of eight robotic surgery centres across four continents for the Worldwide Robotic Surgery Education 24-hour live event since 2015, alongside Karolinska, Aalst, Guy’s London and Icahn New York.

Society Leadership

Elected member of the Board of Directors, Endourological Society (2009–2012). Member, Delphi Consensus on ERUS Robotic-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy Curriculum.

International Standards

Convener, Core Urology Group for Standard Treatment Guidelines, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India (2011). Invited contributor to the BJU International ‘International Curriculum’ by Prof. Prokar Dasgupta (2014).

Best video & poster awards

International learned societies

Best video & presentation awards

Selected prizes from AUA, EAU, USICON, NZUSICON and RSC meetings across two decades.

AUA 2020 Best Video — Functioning left renal hilar extra-adrenal paraganglioma: renal-sparing excision

KS Memorial Video Award — Robotic kidney transplant with grafts having multiple renal arteries. RSC Goa, 2017.

EAU 2014 Best Poster — Robotic kidney transplantation with regional hypothermia: IDEAL Phase 0 and 1. Stockholm.

USICON 2014 Best Video (First Prize) — Robotic renal transplantation using intracorporeal cooling. New Delhi.

USICON 2011 Best Video (First Prize) — Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for parahilar tumours. Kolkata.

NZUSICON 2011 Best Video (First Prize) — Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for difficult hilar tumours. Gurgaon.

NZUSICON 2006 Best Video (First Prize) — PAD Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty. Patna.

NZUSICON 2003 Best Video (First Prize) — Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty. Ludhiana.

Professional society memberships

Active member of six leading national and international urological bodies since 1987.

1987 – PRESENT

Urological Society of India (USI)

1990 – PRESENT

American Urological Association (AUA)

2006 – PRESENT · Board of Directors 2009–12

Endourological Society

1997 – PRESENT

Société Internationale d’Urologie (SIU)

1994 – PRESENT

Indian American Urological Association (IAUA)

2016 – PRESENT

European Association of Urology (EAU)