Prokar Dasgupta
Prof. Prokar Dasgupta receives a Padma Shri award for medicine from President Kovind. He is a distinguished surgeon-scientist, lecturer, and professor at King’s College London. He also invented robotic surgery for urology.
Who is Prokar Dasgupta?
Prokar Dasgupta FRCS(Urol), FEBU is an Indian surgeon and academic who is a professor of surgery at the surgical academy at King’s Health Partners, London, UK. Since 2002, he has been a consultant urologist to Guy’s Hospital, and in 2009 became the first professor of robotic surgery and urology at King’s, and subsequently the chairman of the King’s College-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery.
At the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen’s Square, where he worked with Clare Fowler as a medical research fellow early in his career, they created an outpatient procedure to treat urinary incontinence in patients with an overactive bladder who did not respond to standard medical care. They were the first in the UK to employ this approach, which is known as the “Dasgupta technique,” for injecting Botox into the bladder wall using a flexible cystoscope.
He oversaw the team that employed a da Vinci robot in 2005 to carry out one of the first kidney retrieval keyhole surgeries in Britain. Ten years later, he used a 3D-printed duplicate prostate as surgical assistance to successfully remove a malignant tumor from a man’s prostate. He served as editor-in-chief of the urology publication British Journal of Urology International from 2013 to 2020. (BJUI).