PUNE: Dr Sanjay Kulkarni, a renowned senior urologist from Pune, has been elected as President of Society International De Urology (SIU). Dr Kulkarni formally took over the President’s chair in a huge function held recently in Athens, Greece. He is the second Indian to be a President of this organisation in the last 100 years.
More than 10,000 urologists from 130 countries are members of this organisation. Dr Kulkarni’s term as a President will last for one year and will conclude in October 2020 in Montreal, Canada during the 40th annual congress of SIU. After that, he will continue to be part of the Board of Directors Executive committee for 12 months.
Dr Kulkarni specialises in male urethral surgery. He has a procedure named after him, which is known as Kulkarni’s Technique for Urethral Reconstruction world over. Last year, he was elected as Vice President of SIU. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Dr BC Roy National Award.
He has completed his MBBS from Pune’s BJ Medical College in 1976 and after that was trained under the guidance of surgeon PK Bharucha, a famous surgeon. In England, he did his training for five years in urology and then came back to India to continue his practice. He also teaches this surgery to urologists for free at his Kulkarni School of Urethral Surgery.
