Dr. Rajiv Yadav

Brief Profile:

Dr. Rajiv Yadav has more than twenty years of experience in the treatment of urological diseases of the prostate, kidney and bladder. His clinical focus is robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery for prostate cancer, kidney cancer and colon cancer. He leads a team of specialists who are well trained in the management of complex types of urological procedures. Together, they have performed thousands of procedures resulting in one of the best places in the world.

Recipient of many honors and awards. This includes the "Best Investigator" award of the American Urological Association, two years in a row in 2008 and 2009, and the "Gold Medal" for the best Urology resident. He has written and published more than 100 scientific articles on various aspects of urology and urologic oncology.

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 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

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

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