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.

Previous Work Positions-

 Assistant professor- Department of Urology, Seth GS medical college & KEM hospital, Mumbai. (Duration- from 15 /10/2019 till 30/09/2021).

Responsibilities were attending all urology OPD’s, taking ward round, planning and executing all urology surgical procedures including renal transplant, monitoring the work and training of super speciality residents in urology and taking teaching classes of undergraduate students.

Types of urological procedures carried out were all endo-urological procedures, various reconstructive procedures, laparoscopy, Uro-gynecological procedures, Paediatric urology, Uro-oncology, Andrology and renal transplant.

Previous Work Experience-

• Speciality Medical officer (SMO-Bonded), In Dept of General surgery, Bhabha hospital, Bandra, Mumbai. (From -Feb 2015 to July 2018).
• Senior registrar in Dept of Urology,KEM hospital,Mumbai-From Aug 2018 to Oct 2018.
• Bonded Assistant professor in Dept of Urology,KEM hospital,Mumbai-From Oct 2018 to Oct 2019.
• Consultant Urologist and Andrologist at various hospitals since 2018.

Training Courses and Teaching Experience-

• Delivered a training course presentation on “Renal transplant-information, evaluation, management, outcome and cost consideration in government tertiary care hospital” to transplant co-ordinators in orientation programme held by ROTTO-SOTTO Maharashtra division @ Tata memorial hospital, Mumbai in Dec 2018.
• Undergraduate teaching lectures for Final year MBBS students on various urological topics under General surgery subject @ Seth GSMC & KEM Hospital Mumbai.
• Participation in regular urology superspeciality PG resident teaching activity in Dept of Urology, KEM Hospital, Mumbai and Mumbai Urology society.
• Webinars on various urology related awareness topics on online platforms.
• Resident learning webinars on teaching platforms like Medflix.

Voluntary work experience-

• Volunteer work done in Hilly areas of Melghat for children disease treatment and health improvement camps organised by Maitri Foundation, Pune in 2008.
• Attended various blood donation camps arranged by KEM hospital blood bank, Mumbai.
• Participation in various rallies and street plays about organ donation awareness programmes in Mumbai.

Full member of Urological society of India (USI) and West zone USI.

• 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.

1. 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.”
2. Paper presentation in USICON 2017-“To assess the factors determining the outcome in posterior urethral valve patients.”
3. 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.”
4. 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.”

1. 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.”
2. Paper publication-“.Deshpande Aparna, Velhal Rishikesh, Thanky Harsh, Soman Sundeep, Shah Ritesh : Lessons Learnt in Management of Acute Pancreatitis. Journal of the Pancreas June 2015.”
3. 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, 13(2):183-185
4. Renal hydatid cyst involving inferior vena cava-A rare entity;IJMR,May 2021
5. 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.
6. 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.

1. Co-Editor of the published book “Genitourinary Tuberculosis” by Dr.Ganesh Gopalkrishnan and Dr.Sujata Patwardhan.