Dr. Pradeep Rao — Director & Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Pradeep Rao is Director and Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, with more than 34 years of experience. His profile records urology, uro-oncology and robotic surgery, and his listed procedures are kidney stone surgery, percutaneous nephrolithotomy and ureteroscopy.

His qualifications are MBBS, the FRCS in surgery, MNAMS in general surgery and urology, the FICS in urology and a Diploma in Laparoscopic Urology.

Most of his further training was taken in a single year and each placement was with a different subspecialty. In July and August 2000 he was a visiting fellow in laparoscopic urology with Dr. Inderbir Gill at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in August 2000 a visiting fellow in reconstructive urology at the University of California, and in September 2000 a visiting fellow in pediatric urology with Dr. Warren Snodgrass at Southwestern Children's Hospital. He returned to laparoscopy the following year with training at EITS in December 2001.

His hospital history is unusual in being largely in the public system. Alongside Gleneagles Hospital at Parel he has been associated with Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital and with five municipal general hospitals in Mumbai: Rajawadi, R.N. Cooper, L.T., Mulund and Sant Muktabai.

Taken together, a diploma and a course in laparoscopic urology, three overseas visiting fellowships and robotic surgery as a listed specialty describe a practice built on minimal access technique rather than open surgery.