About
Dr. Anant Kumar has 32 years of experience and is currently the Chairman of Uro-Oncology, Robotic & Kidney Transplantation Max Hospital Complex at Saket New Delhi & Max Hospital Vaishali. Well-known as one of the best robotic surgeon in Delhi Dr. Anant Kumar was also Director of the Department of Urology, Renal transplantation and Robotics at Fortis hospital in Delhi & NCR. Prior to this, he was the Professor & Head, Urology & Kidney Transplantation at SGPGIMS, Lucknow. He was also the senior consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi & Consultant Urologist in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. His areas of interest include Kidney Transplantation, Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Urology, Reno vascular Hypertension, Laparoscopic Urology, Urological Oncology, Laser Urological Surgery and Reconstructive Urology. He had his Urology training in Post Graduate of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh.

He has 32 years of experience in Urology & Renal Transplantation as a teacher and clinician. He has truly earned the title of the best robotic surgeon in Delhi by performing about 3500 kidney transplantations in last 30 years. Also, Dr. Anant Kumar, the best robotic surgeon in Delhi, has been retrieving all kidneys laparoscopically in last 18 years and has done over 2000 lap donor nephrectomy. He has extensive experience in Reno vascular hypertension. He has done several hundred endourological procedures like PCNL, URS, flexible ureteroscopy, endopyelotomy, TURP, TUBT, optical urethrotomy etc. He has been removing prostate by laser for last 10 years and has used Thulium, green light and Holmium laser. Presently he has been doing HOLEP by Lumenis machine. He has done all kinds of reconstructive urology of kidney, bladder & urethra. He has been doing urethral stricture surgery for last 30 years and has performed over 700 such cases. For last 15 years, he has developed special interest in laparoscopic urology & has now performed almost all laparoscopic urological procedures including radical Prostatectomy. Since 2011, he has started Robotic assisted urological surgery for prostate, kidney and bladder cancer and other urological reconstructions like pyeloplasty, ureteric re-implantation bladder augmentation etc. and has now become one of the best robotic surgeon in Delhi.

Education & Training:
    M.B.B.S King George Medical University, Lucknow, India
    M.S(General Surgery), PGIMER, Chandigarh India
    M.Ch(Urology), PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
    DNB (Urology), PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

Work Experience:
    Professor and Head, Department of Urology & Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
    Director , Department of Urology, Robotic and Kidney Transplantation, Fortis Group of Hospitals, Delhi and NCR
    Senior Consultant, Urology and Transplantation, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
    Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's NHS foundation, Cambridge, UK

Awards Information:
    2200 Kidney Transplantations in the last 25 years and over 1500 lap donors nephrectomy
    Delivered many prestigious rations and guest lectures at various meetings and institutes
    Over 160 papers published in national  & international journals
    Written several book chapters and invited reviews
    Won many awards and distinctions during medical education and training

Speciality Interest:
    Kidney Transplantation and Renovascular Hypertension
    Robotic and Laparoscopic Urology
    Stricture Urethra
    Uro - Oncology
    Laser Prostrate Surgery

Memberships:
    American Urological Association
    British Association of Urological Surgeon
    Societe InternatinaleD'Urologie
    International Transplant Society
    International Society of Nephrology
    European Association of Urology
    Asian society of Transplantation
    Association of Surgeons of India
    Urological Society of India
    Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
    Urological Society of India(Northern Chapter)
    Indian Society of Peritoneal Dialysis
    Indian Science Congress Society

CLINICAL WORK
    He had done over 3500 kidney transplantations in last 30years & have been retrieving all kidneys laparoscopically in last 18 years and have done over 1800 lap donor nephrectomy. He had extensive experience in renovascular hypertension. He had done several hundred endourological procedures like PCNL, URS, RIRS,flexible ureteroscopy, endopyelotomy, TURP, TUBT, optical urethrotomy & has special interest in urethral reconstruction like substitution urethroplasty. He has been interested in uro-oncology & have done all kinds of oncological surgery in last 30 years. Most of uro-oncological procedures are done laparoscopically like rad nephrectomy , rad prostate etc. He has started Robotic urological procedures for last 6 years. He has done robotic radical prostatectomy, Robotic partial nephrectomy, robotic radical cystectomy, pyeloplasty and robotic ureteric re-implantation.He has done all kinds of reconstructive urology of kidney, bladder & urethra. He has developed special interest in laparoscopic urology & now performed all most all laparoscopic urological procedures. He has been doing Laser prostatectomy(HOLAP) for last 6 years

RESEARCH IN TRANSPLANTATION
At Monash University, Australia, he had done renal transplant research in small and medium sized animals. He had tested value of various constituent of UW solution in dog model. He had also learnt microsurgical techniques to do renal transplants in rats where he tested immunosuppressive property of polyethylene glycol.
He had done clinical research in various aspects of urology and renal transplantation and had published over 170 papers on various aspect of urology and transplantations.

ORATIONS
o    Delivered many prestigious orations and guest lectures at various meetings and instituitions.
o    Pinnamali oration of Urological Society of India
o    Marudhar Oration of NZ-Urological society of India
o    Presidential oration of NZ Urological Society of India
o    Delivered Guest lecture at St Louis University at Washington, Henry Ford Hospital Detroit.Addenbrooks Hospital Cambridge, Clinik Im Sachen Aarau and Klinic Harslande Zurich, Switzerland
o    Conducted CPC at AIIMS ,New Delhi, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi
o    Conducted several Live operative workshops in various part of the country
o    Participated many CME as a faculty members
o    Delivered many guest lectures in Urology Soiety of India, NZ-Urological Society of India , Association of Surgeons of India, Nephrology Society of India and Indian Society of Organ transplantation

PRESENT ASSIGNMENT
At present he is Chairman of urology and Kidney transplantation at Max hospital, Saket and Vaishali, in New Delhi. The department has almost all-modern facilities for the investigations and treatment of urological diseases (US, CT, angiography, radionuclide studies, MRI, lithotriptor, urodynamics, sexual dysfunction lab etc.). Davinci Robotic system will be installed very soon. The department has an active renal transplant programme. He is also activity involved in the management of chronic renal failure such as creation of different vascular access, insertion of CAPD catheters and other surgical procedures for uraemic patients. The department has a very active laparoscopic donor nephrectomy programme  and endourology programme. He has been using laser for stone disease ,stricture urethra and BPH-HOLAP. He has special interest in surgical aspect of Renovascular Hypertension and Surgical Oncology