About Doctor

Presentations and Publications

• Paper presentation in MASICON 2014-“Validation of BISAP score as a prognostic marker of severity of acute pancreatitis within 24 hours of admission in tertiary care hospital.”
• Paper presentation in USICON 2017-“To assess the factors determining the outcome in posterior urethral valve patients.”
• Moderated Video presentation in West Zone USICON 2017-“Post Fournier’s gangrene penile scar excision with bilateral testicular repositioning in thigh with penile reconstruction using split thickness skin graft.”
• Paper presentation in West Zone USICON 2017- “To study the role of different surgical interventions, effect of these interventions on symptom modifications and complications arising from them while managing patients of posterior urethral valve.”
• Paper presentation in USICON 2018- “To study the role of surgical interventions, their complications and effect on outcome in the management of PU valve patients.”
• aper publication-“.Deshpande Aparna, Velhal Rishikesh, Thanky Harsh, Soman Sundeep, Shah Ritesh : Lessons Learnt in Management of Acute Pancreatitis. Journal of the Pancreas June 2015.”
• A case report of emphysematous cystitis with spontaneous intraperitoneal bladder perforation in an operated case of prolapsed intervertebral disc. Rishikesh C Velhal, Nikhilesh A Jibhakate, Sujata K Patwardhan, Bhushan P Patil.April-June 2021
• Renal hydatid cyst involving inferior vena cava-A rare entity;IJMR,May 2021
• Role of testicular size as a parameter for predicting infertility in Indian males;Amit Bellurkar, Sujata Patwardhan, Bhushan Patil, Ajay Kanbur, Hitesh Jain, Rishikesh Velhal. Journal of human reproductive sciences,2020,vol 3,114-116.
• Impact of surgical intervention on progression to end-stage renal disease in patients with posterior urethral valve. Velhal R, Jain A, Nayan A, Patwardhan S, Patil B.Afr J Urol. 2021;27(1):158. doi: 10.1186/s12301-021-00261-8. Epub 2021 Dec 11.
• Co-Editor of the published book “Genitourinary Tuberculosis” by Dr.Ganesh Gopalkrishnan and Dr.Sujata Patwardhan.

Awards and Achievements

• First runner up in the IAP paediatric quiz 2009 held at BJMC Pune.
• Gold medal in Biochemistry in First year MBBS final exam in BJMC Pune.
• First rank in anatomy First year MBBS exam in BJMC, Pune.
• Second rank in First and Second year final MBBS exam in BJMC, Pune.
• State merit rank 39 in PGM CET 2011 conducted by DMER.
• State merit rank 02 in Superspeciality PG CET 2015 conducted by DMER.

Special Interests and skills

Completed MCH urology course from KEM Hospital, Mumbai which is considered to be one of the finest and top rated government Urology institutes in India. Experienced in management of various types of urological problems and carrying out various types of urological procedures. The ultimate aim is to deliver patient care and satisfaction with utmost sincerity. Special interests areas are Endo-urology, Urethroplasties, Paediatric functional urological problems, Urodyanamics ,Andrology, Lower urinary tract pathologies, renal transplant and Uro-oncology. Till now had operated more than three thousand various urological procedures successfully and experience in assisting more than three hundred major and supra-major urological procedures and more than 100 renal transplant surgery assistance.