News
17th Jan 2019 Site
Currently as we prepare for the 2019-2020 series of Vattikuti Fellowships, we would invite other interested Indian Academic Medical Institutions and Robotic Surgeons to apply to become part of this successful program.
16th Jan 2019 Site
Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, CEO of the Vattikuti Foundation has announced the 2019-2020 series of Vattikuti Fellowships. Six one-year long Fellowships in Robotic Oncologic specialties will be awarded. In addition, one Vattikuti International Fellowship is offered for research at the Vattikuti Urology Institute in Detroit, Michigan, and there will be two comprehensive two-weed long Fellowships to the ATLAS Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York.
Two new Vattikuti Research Fellowship grants will be given for scientific research in India.
02nd Jan 2019 Media
A recent study produced by our friends at the Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery, King’s College London, has been honored as the BJUI Article of the week (for 12-19-2018). Cognitive training for technical and non‐technical skills in robotic surgery: a randomised controlled trial discusses the results of a study comparing novice surgeons which were placed into groups to receive motor imagery (MI) for technical skill and non‐technical skill (NTS) training in minimally invasive surgery.
Please use the link above to access the Abstract, with links to the complete BJUI article and to the video produced by Mr. Nicholas Raison, lead author of the study ("Mr." is the equivalent of "Dr." in the UK).
29th Oct 2018 Site
Thanks to the efforts of CEO Dr. Mahendra Bhandari & Shannon Micallef, we have the first draft of the program for the December 1 & 2 Robotic Surgeons Council of India.
-Please click the "Read more" button below to see the schedule:
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.
Use the Read More button below the main article to acces the web page.