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Medical Director & Director - Division of Urology & Kidney Transplant at Medanta Lucknow
Instrumental in setting up of the Department of Urology & Renal Transplantation in North India
Recipient of Hewitt Gold Medal, PMS Gold Medal, Vigyan Gaurav, Vigyan Ratna and Dr. BC Roy National Award for Eminent Teacher
Dr. Rakesh Kapoor is Medical Director and Director Kidney & Urology Institute at Medanta Lucknow. He comes with vast experience and services in the field of Urology for over four decades. Dr. Rakesh Kapoor has a distinguished academic career and ranks among the pioneers in the field of healthcare and administration. He has been credited for setting up the Renal Transplant Program as well as cadaveric transplant programme in North India. He introduced various laser technologies for urological surgeries, including KTP laser for prostate surgery, holmium laser for prostate and stone diseases. He was also instrumental in setting up of Paediatric Urology, Female Reconstructive Urology and Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeries at SGPGIMS, which is first of its kind in North India. Under his leadership, SGPGI witnessed more than 2700 kidney transplantation, 1200 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies. Dr Kapoor has been honoured with the prestigious Vigyan Gaurav Samman (2009), Vigyan Ratna Samman (2010), Yash Bharti Samman (2016) and Dr BC Roy National Award for Eminent Teacher (2017).
Kidney Transplant
Endourology - Paediatric & Adult
Uro-oncology-kidney tumors, prostate tumors, bladder cancer testicular tumors, penile cancers
Reconstructive Urology – Paediatric, Adult & Female
Transvaginal surgery for vesicovaginal fistula or ureterovaginal fistula repair, vault prolapse,cystocoele rectocoele surgery,urethral diverticulum repair, midurethral slings, vaginoplasty
Advanced Robotic surgery - radical prostatectomy, complex partial nephrectomy, bladder diverticulectomy, radical cystectomy,ureteric reimplant, vesicovaginal repair
Endourology
Holmium laser prostate surgery, TURP
Complex Urethral Stricture Surgery
Andrology, Infertility Erectlie Dysfunction
FNASc, National Academy of Sciences, 2007
FAMS, National Academy of Sciences, 2005
MAMS, National Academy of Sciences, 2000
M.Ch.(Urology)PGIME, Chandigarh, 1987
M.S.(General Surgery) KGMU, 1984(gold medalist)
MBBS, KGMU, Lucknow, 1979(gold medalist)
Milestones Achieved
1979
N.N. Gupta Silver Medal for obtaining the highest marks in Medicine with distinction
Anatomical Society Gold Medal for standing first in debate
C. Michael Gold Medal for obtaining the highest marks in Anatomy for the year. Prize for standing second in the first professional examination.
Prize in Seminar Article by Physiology Society of K.G.M.C. Lucknow
1976
Silver Medal in Anatomy, Dissection Competition for the year 1976
1978
Silver Medal by the Pharmacological Society for the best student of the year 1978
Prize for standing first in the second professional examination for the year
1979
Hewett Gold Medal for obtaining the highest marks in the Final Professional examination of 1979
1979
M.S. Association Gold Medal for obtaining highest aggregate marks in First, Second and Final professional examination 1975-1979
1979
Professor K.B. Kunwar Memorial Gold Medal for securing the highest aggregate marks in Pathology, Pharmacology and Medicine and passing all the Professional examinations in first attempt of 1979.
1979
Silver Jubilee Reunion (1949-1975 M.B.B.S. batch) prize for obtaining highest aggregate marks in First, Second and Final professional examination 1975-1979
2018
Gujral-Bhargava Memorial Oration Award by Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, KGMU, UP, Luckow
1979
Book prize for Standing First in the final professional examination
1979
Mactaggart Prize, for being the best qualified in Clinical Medicine
1984
Babu Kashi Ram Dhawan Gold Medal for First in order of Merit M.S. (General. Surgery) examination
2000
Nargis Dutt Foundation Educational Grant Award (USA)
2000
American Urology Association Audio –Visual award (USA)
2000
Endourology Society Essay Award (World Endourological Society)
2009
Vigyan Ratna Samman by the Council of Science & Technology Uttar Pradesh for distinguished services in the field of Urology & Renal Transplantation
2010
Vigyan Gaurav Samman by the Council of Science & Technology Uttar Pradesh for distinguished services in the field of Urology & Renal Transplantation
2016
Yash Bharti Purushkar by the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh for distinguished services in the field of Urology & Renal Transplantation
2017
Dr B.C. Roy National Award by Medical Council of India in the category of “Eminent Medical Teacher”.
Dr. Rakesh Kapoor
- patient- Ved Prakash
Welcome to Medanta! When the symptoms of bladder cancer started to show up for Mr. Prem Prakash, he, and his family, were reasonably worried as there was no history of cancer in the family, and this led them to seek further medical diagnosis and care from Dr. Rakesh Kapoor and Dr. Ved Bhaskar at Med.....
