作者: Sanjay B. Kulkarni

Dr. Pankaj M Joshi MS, DNB (Gold Medal), fellowship in Reconstructive Urology. He is passionate about his work and an avid researcher. He has written 16 book chapters and published 114 manuscripts in reputed journals. Dr. Joshi won the prestigious IAUA Chakraborty Fellowship in 2018 in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. He has numerous presentation prizes from the Urology Society of India. Dr Joshi is a faculty teacher for the GURS and Maharashtra University Fellowship program in reconstructive urology in Pune, India. Dr Pankaj has operated in over 28 countries as faculty. Dr Pankaj Joshi”s specialties include urethral strictures, hypospadias, pelvic fracture, artificial sphincters, and insertion of penile prosthesis. He is ranked in the top 1% of Reconstructive Urologists in the world. Dr Sanjay Kulkarni MS, FRCS is a B C Roy awardee from President of India. Dr. Kulkarni established the Centre for Reconstructive Urology in 1995 and “UROKUL” in 2023, in Pune which is a 100-bed single specialty hospital and training center. The center performs among the largest number of genito-urinary reconstructive surgeries in the world today. Dr. Sanjay Kulkarni has been invited by faculty in over 50 countries to demonstrate surgery. The “Kulkarni Urethroplasty” for panurethral strictures is published in the widely popular American textbook Hinman’s Atlas of Urology. Dr Kulkarni has authored a chapter on Urethra and Penis in the 2022 Edition of Love and Bailey, Practice of Surgery. He is ranked in the top 1% of Reconstructive Urologists in the world. Dr Melanie Aubé-Peterkin is currently an Assistant Professor of Urology at Mc Gill University Health Center in Montréal, Canada, the second-largest hospital in the province of Québec. Dr Aubé-Peterkin is the author or co-author of over 30 publications and book chapters. She is also credited with over 100 peer-reviewed meeting abstracts and presentations and invited speaking appearances at national and international conferences, such as the Canadian Urological Association, American Urological Association, and Société Internationale d”Urologie (SIU). Dr. Aubé-Peterkin also specializes in BPH and prostate enucleation and is a proctor in Canada for teaching Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (Ho LEP) to local urologists. Dr Govind Datar earned his master”s in surgery from M.S. University, Baroda in 1968. Dr Datar became the head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at KEM Hospital, Pune. Dr Datar has always been keenly interested in finding a good surgical solution for bladder exstrophy and its variants. Dr Datar developed a namesake technique that can be customized to suit any patient in the entire spectrum of variations, included under the class Exstrophy Complex. Dr Datar received many awards for his work, The Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons recognized his lifetime work on bladder exstrophy complex by giving him the Prof. K. C. Sogani Gold Medal (2020).