Dr. Rajiv Yadav — Vice Chairman - Department of Urology in Delhi NCR

Dr. Rajiv Yadav is Vice Chairman of the Department of Urology, Uro-Oncology, Robotics and Renal Transplant at Artemis Hospital in Delhi NCR, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records urology together with uro-oncology.

His list is largely robotic cancer surgery. He performs robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy, robotic partial and radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer, and robotic-assisted radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Alongside it he performs kidney transplant surgery from living and deceased donors and ABO-incompatible kidney transplant, transurethral resection of prostate, urethroplasty for urethral stricture and kidney stone surgery.

He took both his MS in surgery and his MCh in urology at AIIMS, New Delhi, where he won a gold medal, and also holds a DNB in urology and MNAMS. His two overseas fellowships are in the techniques that head his list: robotic surgery at the University of Southern California, and uro-oncology and laparoscopic urology at Henry Ford Hospital, both in the USA.

His awards are for research and operative video. He has taken the Urological Society of India best research paper award in multiple years, best video awards at national urological conferences, and first prize at the Indian American Urological Association and scientific session awards.

He is an active member of the Urological Society of India, the American Urological Association, the Society of Robotic Surgery, the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation and the International Society of Urology, a membership list that covers the robotic, oncological and transplant arms of his departmental title.