Mahendra Bhandari

The story of my life is a combination of my experience as a Clinician, Medical Educationist, Healthcare Professional, and in the Practice of Robotic Surgery, Education and Research. I have credentials of Robotic technology innovator and entrepreneur. Geographically, my career of 5 decades extends across the globe in general, particularly within emerging economies.

The current abode of my journey is Detroit, Michigan. Since moving here in 2006, I have been working at the Henry Ford Hospital Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI), and for the Vattikuti Foundation. Moving to the United States was a major career pivot, in my role at the Vattikuti Foundation, we are managing a multi institutional global database of several distinct robotic surgery procedures. Dissemination of robotic surgery technology information beyond the most-familiar da Vinci Surgical System is now a major program of the Foundation. We have established a powerful global network of institutions located in United States, United Kingdom, Belgium and India.

I have had the honor be named the President of prestigious national and international professional societies: Asian Society of Transplantation; Urology Society of India; Telemedicine Society of India, and for the Lucknow Management Association.

On the editorial front, I have 220 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 10 book chapters, and have delivered 250 invited guest lectures. I was the Founding Editor of the Indian Journal of Urology and then Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal. I have served as a member of Editorial boards of international journals, including the British Journal of Urology and Archivos Espanoles Urologica.

Myefforts have been recognized by the following awards: Dr. B.C. Roy Award forthe year 1996; Padma Shri (2000) by the Government of India; and PresidentAward for 2014, by the Indian American Urological Association. I have beenincluded in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum ofAmerican History in Washington. The Many Voices, One Nation exhibit portraysthe 500-year history of the contributions made by Immigrants to the UnitedStates.