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    Ganesh Gopalakrisnan

    Head of Department ,Urology
    Vedanayagam Hospital, Coimbatore, India, India

    Professor Ganesh Gopalakrishnan worked at Christian Medical College, Vellore, his Alma Mater, from 1976, retiring in 2008. After acquiring an M.Ch in Urology, he honed his skills at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, UK from 1981 to ‘83. He was awarded an honorary FRCP from Edinburgh, is a past President of the Urology Society of India, a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a life member of the American Urological Association. His passion for teaching guided his career in the following ways:
    1. Over 13 years he facilitated the training at Freeman Hospital of five urology graduates from Vellore.
    2. He spent two years reviving the University of Kuwait’s renal transplant programme, following the Gulf war.
    3. In 2006, over five visits to Black Lion Hospital, Ethiopia he trained local surgeons in reconstructive urology and initiated the country’s first urology residency programme, and supported the Ethiopia Fistula hospital in 2024.
    4. He visited Lamb Mission Hospital, Dinajpur, Bangladesh annually from 2007 to 2019, to train volunteer OBGYN surgeons from Netherlands and Switzerland, and Indian urologists to manage urinary fistulae.
    5. Between 2009 and 2015, he started the pediatric renal transplant and reconstructive urology programmes at Royal Hospital and Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.
    6. In 2017, the International Volunteers in Urology nominated him to conduct a reconstructive urology workshop in Gezira Hospital Wad Medani, Sudan.
    7. In India he annually visited the Sri Satya Sai Institute for Higher Medical Sciences, at Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, mentoring trainee urologists for over two decades. This has culminated in the establishment of a fellowship in reconstructive surgery.
    8. For over 30 years he has demonstrated numerous procedures at live operative workshops, at national and regional conferences and Government medical college hospitals.
    9. His contributions have been recognized nationally with the Dr. B C Roy award for Best Teacher in 2006 and the lifetime achievement award by the SIU at Athens in 2019.

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