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09th Oct 2018 Site
We would like to share some news about Dr. Mani Menon, Founding Director of the Vattikuti Urlogy Institute. He is hard at work developing a new robotic procedure he is calling the MPP. He uses an orange to describe what takes place- and the very encouraging early results. Please click on the title above to access the complete report.
19th Sep 2018 Site
URO Today (UroToday.com) provides a report from the ERUS 2018: ERUS Education Working Group on Education and Training, regarding minimum criteria for becoming certified as an ERUS Training Center. The overview was presented by Dr. Van der Poel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
11th Sep 2018 Site
The saga of the salvage of 33 Chilean miners in 2010 after 69 days of sustenance underground in the San Jose Mine, located in Atacama Desert of Chile is replete of lessons for all of us to learn.
Please click the title to access the full commentary from Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, CEO, Vattikuti Foundation.
21st Aug 2018 Site
We have been asked to post news of a job opening at a Fortis facility in Karnataka:
I am looking for a Uro-oncologist to be a part of my team at Fortis, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore. If you could circulate the requirement among the Vattikuti Urology Fellows it would be of great help. Interested candidates may contact me on my email: sandeep.nayak@fortishealthcare.com
Regards,
Dr. Sandeep Nayak
MBBS | MRCS (Edin) | DNB (Gen Surg) | DNB (Surgical Oncology)
MNAMS | Fellowship in Laparoscopic and Robotic Onco-Surgery
21st Aug 2018 Site
Vattikuti Foundation CEO Dr. Mahendra Bhandari is pleased to announce that Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD and Nynke Sjoerdtje van den Berg, PhD, will be the 
International Faculty at the upcoming XI Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) December 1st & 2nd meetings, to be held at the Taj Vivanta Hari Mahal Hotel, Jodhpur.
21st Aug 2018 Media
We just received late word about a live Webinar with Dr. Vipul Patel about how he performs robotic prostatectomy surgery.
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30th Jul 2018 Site
July 5, 2018 marked the return of Mako Total Hip Replacement surgery to India at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi. Dr. Jai Thilak and his team performed successful left hip joint replacement on an unnamed patient.
27th Jul 2018 Site
Call for abstracts for the Krishnaswamy Subramaniam (KS) National Robotic Surgery Video Awards
The Vattikuti Foundation is pleased to announce the December 2018 KS Robotic Surgery Video Awards. Finalists will have an opportunity to present their videos at the upcoming XI Robotic Surgeons Council of India (RSC) December 1st & 2nd meetings, to be held at the Taj Vivanta Hari Mahal Hotel, Jodhpur. This is a nationwide contest, open to all Indian Robotic Surgeons and Vattikuti Fellows. The theme of the RSC will focus on Evidence Based Medicine.
The Vattikuti Foundation established the KS Robotic Surgery Video Awards to honor the memory of the late Shri Krishnaswami Subramaniam, who played a key role in the establishment of robotic surgery in India. We invite robotic surgery professionals to send us abstracts of robotic surgery videos they would like to produce for this competition. Abstracts must be submitted by Friday, September 14, 2018.
20th Jul 2018 Site
The deadline for application for a position in the Mohak Bariatric Surgery Fellowship Program for 2019 is July 31, 2018
Mohak Bariatric and Robotic Surgery Centre (MBRSC) in Indore, India has four one-year fellowship positions in bariatric metabolic surgery.
MBRSC is the busiest bariatric surgery centre in India and in Asia with 100+ bariatric procedures performed monthly. MBRSC is equipped with five modern bariatric and endoscopic operating rooms with HD 3D/4K ,robotics /endoscopy for teleconferencing. Bariatric procedures are done via laparoscopic, SILS, Robotic and endoscopic approaches.
It is the pioneer centre in the field of bariatric endoscopy in Asia pacific.
Applications are available online at www.indiaobesity.in
Interested surgeons may also apply by writing a mail at drmohitbhandari@gmail.com.
16th Jul 2018 Site
Though we are a little late publishing this, we want to share the news about our former Vattikuti Fellow Dr. Santosh Waigankar. He was a Fellow with Dr. T. B. Yuvaraja at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, completing his term in October, 2016. He let us know last March that he had received recognition from ERUS 2017 for his poster abstract entitled: “Pentafecta outcomes of robotic partial nephrectomy for T1b renal masses: Single institute-single surgeon retrospective analysis”. This was awarded 2nd prize at the Junior ERUS-YAU meeting held on 25 September 2017, Bruges, Belgium. He received the prize from Dr. Geert De Naeyer, OLV Hospital Department of Urology.
We are sorry for the delay in publishing this good news!