Dr. Anant Kumar

• Kidney Transplantation,
• Robotic-Assisted Surgery,
• Renovascular Hypertension,
• Urological Oncology,
• Laser Urological Surgery,
• Reconstructive Urology
• Radical prostatectomy and lymph node dissection for prostate cancer, including salvage prostatectomy following radiation
• Partial nephrectomy, radical nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy, and cryo and radiofrequency ablation for kidney cancer
• Radical cystectomy for bladder cancer
• Partial bladder resection for benign bladder tumors
• Pyeloplasty for ureteropelvic (UPJ) obstruction
• Adrenalectomy for adrenal tumors
• Cyst ablation and nephrectomy for cystic kidney disease
• Ureterolysis for retroperitoneal fibrosis
• Resection or biopsy for retroperitoneal mass
• Ablation for seminal vesicle cyst
• Donor nephrectomy
• Ureteral reconstruction
• Ureteral reimplantation

• Professor and Head, Department of Urology & Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
• Director, Department of Urology, Robotic and Kidney Transplantation, Fortis Group of Hospitals, Delhi and NCR
• Senior Consultant, Urology and Transplantation, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
• Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital (NHS Foundation Trust), Cambridge, UK

• M.B.B.S., King George Medical University, Lucknow, India
• M.S. (General Surgery), PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
• M.Ch (Urology), PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
• DNB (Urology), PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

• 3500 Kidney Transplantations in the last 35 years and over 2000 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies
• Delivered many prestigious orations and guest lectures at various meetings and institutes
• Over 180 papers published in national & international journals
• Written several book chapters and invited reviews
• Won many awards and distinctions during medical education and training

CLINICAL WORK

• He has done over 3500 kidney transplantations in the last 30 years, has been retrieving all kidneys laparoscopically for the last 18 years and has done over 1800 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies. He has extensive experience in renovascular hypertension. He has done several hundred endourological procedures like PCNL, URS, RIRS, flexible ureteroscopy, endopyelotomy, TURP, TUBT, optical urethrotomy & has special interest in urethral reconstruction like substitution urethroplasty. He has been interested in uro-oncology & has done all kinds of oncological surgery in the last 30 years. Most uro-oncological procedures, like radical nephrectomy and radical prostatectomy, are done laparoscopically. He has been performing robotic urological procedures for the last 6 years. He has done robotic radical prostatectomy, Robotic partial nephrectomy, robotic radical cystectomy, pyeloplasty and robotic ureteric re-implantation. He has done all kinds of reconstructive urology of kidney, bladder & urethra. He has developed special interest in laparoscopic urology & now performs almost all laparoscopic urological procedures. He has been doing laser prostatectomy (HoLAP) for the last 6 years.

RESEARCH IN TRANSPLANTATION

• At Monash University, Australia, he had done renal transplant research in small and medium sized animals. He had tested value of various constituents of UW solution in dog model. He had also learnt microsurgical techniques to do renal transplants in rats where he tested immunosuppressive property of polyethylene glycol.
• He had done clinical research in various aspects of urology and renal transplantation and had published over 170 papers on various aspects of urology and transplantation.

ORATIONS 

• • Delivered many prestigious orations and guest lectures at various meetings and institutions.
  • Pinnamali oration of Urological Society of India
  • Marudhar Oration of NZ-Urological Society of India
  • Presidential oration of NZ Urological Society of India
  • Delivered Guest lecture at St Louis University at Washington, Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge, Klinik Im Schachen Aarau and Klinik Hirslanden Zurich, Switzerland
  • Conducted CPC at AIIMS, New Delhi and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi
  • Conducted several Live operative workshops in various parts of the country
  • Participated in many CMEs as a faculty member
  • Delivered many guest lectures in Urological Society of India, NZ-Urological Society of India, Association of Surgeons of India, Nephrology Society of India and Indian Society of Organ Transplantation

PRESENT ASSIGNMENT

• At present he is Chairman of Urology and Kidney Transplantation at Max Hospital, Saket and Vaishali, in New Delhi. The department has almost all modern facilities for the investigations and treatment of urological diseases (US, CT, angiography, radionuclide studies, MRI, lithotriptor, urodynamics, sexual dysfunction lab etc.). The department has an active renal transplant programme. He is also actively involved in the management of chronic renal failure such as creation of different vascular access, insertion of CAPD catheters and other surgical procedures for uraemic patients. The department has a very active laparoscopic donor nephrectomy programme and endourology programme. He has been using laser for stone disease, urethral stricture and BPH (HoLAP). He has special interest in surgical aspect of Renovascular Hypertension and Surgical Oncology.