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Brief Profile:

Dr. Rajiv Yadav has over two decades of experience in the treatment of Urological diseases involving Prostate, Kidney & Urinary bladder. His clinical focus is on Robot assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer and Urinary bladder cancers. He leads a team of experts which is proficient in handling all sorts of complex urological procedures. Together they have performed thousands of procedures with results matching with that of the best centers in the world.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades. It includes the ‘Best Clinical Research’ award by the American Urological Association, for two consecutive years 2008 and 2009, ‘Gold Medal’ for Best Outgoing resident in Urology. He has authored more than 100 scientific articles and invited articles on various aspects of Minimally Invasive Urology and Urologic Oncology research.

Education:

MBBS - Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India, 1998
MS - General Surgery - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 2001
MCh - Urology - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 2005

Experience:

2009 - Present Urologic Oncologist & Robotic Surgeon at Medanta The Medicity - Oct 2009
2008 - 2009 Robotic Surgery Fellow at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), Cornell University Medical Center, NY, USA
2007 - 2008 Endourology Fellow at Weill Cornell Medical Center, Cornell University, NY, USA
1998 - 2001 Resident General Surgery at All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
Senior Resident Surger at All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

Professional Memberships:

Urological Society of India
American Urological Association
North zone Urological Society of India
Delhi Urological Society
Association of Surgeons of India

Awards and Honours:

Best Video Award Year 2016, Robotic Surgeon’s Council Meet, New Delhi (Salvage Robotic Radical Prostatectomy)
Delhi Urological Society (DUSCON) Achievers award 2016
Best Reviewer Award Year 2015, Indian journal of Urology
Best Poster Award Year 2015, NZUSICON, Srinagar
Award for Best Paper in Robotic Surgery (IJU)Vattikuti Foundation- IJU for year 2014
Best Surgical Video Award (1st Prize) at ASICON, 2014
Agra Urological Club Best Video Award (2nd prize) at NZUSICON , Nov 2012
First prize 2009 American Urological Association/Gyrus ACMI Best Clinical Research essay
Co- Investigator National Institutes of Health R01 Grant Award (PA-07-070)
Project: Real-time multiphoton microscopy of periprostatic tissue architecture for improving surgical outcomes during nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy
First prize 2008 American Urological Association /Astellas Best Scientific Abstract award
First prize 2008 American Urological Association /Gyrus ACMI Best Clinical Research essay
First prize 2008 American Urological Association Best scientific video presentation award
First prize 2008 International College of Surgeons, USA. Best Research essay award
Best Abstract 2008 Basic Science award by Sexual Medicine Society of North America at 2008 SMSNA Fall Scientific meeting Oct 18, 2008 Toronto, ON, Canada
Best Scientific paper award 2008 Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 17th SLS Annual Meeting and Endo Expo 2008, Sep 17-20, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Best Video award 2008 Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 17th SLS Annual Meeting and Endo Expo 2008, Sep 17-20, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gold Medal in Urology for best outgoing resident at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi in December 2005
Awarded the GM Phadketravelling fellowship by the Urological Society of India in January 2005

Speciality Interests: 

Evaluation and Management of Urological Cancers
Robotic Surgery for Urological Cancer
Robotic Radical prostatectomy – For Prostate Cancer
Robotic Partial/ Radical Nephrectomy – For Kidney Cancer
Robotic Radical Cystectomy with Urinary Diversion – For Bladder Cancer
Robotic Adrenalectomy/ Robotic Pyeloplasty
MRI-TRUS Fusion Biopsy
Endoscopic/ Laparoscopic/Open Surgical procedures