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Dr. Rakesh Kapoor

Director

Renal Care

Urology

FNASc , FAMS , MAMS , M.Ch. (Urology) , MS (General Surgery) , MBBS

Medanta Lucknow

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About Dr. Rakesh Kapoor

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 the Medical Director – Medanta Lucknow and Director – Division of Urology & Kidney Transplant, Medanta Lucknow. He has a distinguished academic career, is a winner of Hewitt Gold Medal & the PMS Association Gold Medal (1979) for obtaining highest marks in MBBS and Babu Kanshi Ram Dhawan Gold Medal (1984) for being in order of merit in M.S. (General Surgery) from the erstwhile King George Medical College, Lucknow. Post completing his M.Ch. in Urology from PGIMER, Chandigarh, he joined the prestigious Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute in the year 1988 as a faculty at the Department of Urology. Dr Kapoor ranks among the pioneers in the field of healthcare and administration and has been a member of World Health Organization Sub-committee (1998). He has also been granted various international fellowships like “JICA Fellowship in Urology” (Japan), “Chakraborty Travelling Fellowship” by Indo-American Urologic Association and “Endo-Urology Society Fellowship” in 1999 (USA). He has been conferred with the prestigious Fellowship of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India (FAMS-2005) and Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (FNASc – 2007). As Head of the Department of Urology, since 2006, he was instrumental in setting up the Renal Transplant Programme 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). He took the voluntary retirement from the post of the Director, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute and HOD Urology & Renal Transplantation where, he contributed significantly towards achieving the mission of extending the advanced, high-tech and multi-disciplinary health care services for which the institution is prominently known.

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

Specialization And Expertise

Kidney Transplant

Endourology - Paediatric & Adult

Uro-oncology

Reconstructive Urology – Paediatric, Adult & Female

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”.

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Patient Success Story | 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.....