Dr. Krishna Prasad T

 

Professional Qualifications

• Clinical Fellow, Renal Transplantation , Leicester , United Kingdom - 2020
• DaSy Travelling Fellowship, National University Hospital, Singapore - 2019
• MIUC International Travel Fellowship, University of Minnesota, USA - 2017
• Vascular Access - Dr Surendra Shenoy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis - 2017
• Professor A.P. Pandey Travelling Fellowship, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, USA - 2015
• Vascular Access - Dr Arun Pherwani, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, United Kingdom, 2015
• D.N.B (Diplomate of National Board in Genitourinary Surgery), National Board, New Delhi - 2012
• D.N.B (Diplomate of National Board in General Surgery), National Board, New Delhi - 2006
• M.S (Master of Surgery), Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences - 2005
• M.B.B.S (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery), Bangalore University - 2001

Specialties

• Urology (Minimally Invasive; adult and paediatric)
• Uro-Oncology
• Renal Transplant (Adult and paediatric)
• Vascular Access
• Interventional salvage for Vascular Access
• Teaching and training module development
• Patient education - counselling on disease processes, public health talks
• Academic - lectures for trainee residents, mentoring procedures, organization of surgical skill training programmes

Additional Training/ Courses Attended

• Vascular Access (Observer) 2015 Dr Surendra Shenoy Professor of Surgery Director, Living Donor Transplant Program Section of Abdominal Organ Transplantation Washington University School of Medicine
• Robotic Surgery (Observer) 2017 Dr. Badrinath R Konety Department Chair, Department of Urology Institute for Prostate and Urologic Cancers University of Minnesota Minneapolis 22nd May - 9th June, 2017
• Vascular Access (Observer) 2019 Dr Jackie Ho Pei Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, National University Heart Centre, Singapore
• Director, Endovascular Therapy, Vascular Surgery Division, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, National University Heart Centre, Singapore Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 2nd Sep - 20th Sep, 2019
• Pediatric Reanl Transplantation (Observer) 2020 Mr Alun Williams Consultant Pediatric Urologist, Department of Pediatric Urology and Trenaplantation Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Queen Medical Centre Nottingham 29th Sept – 09th October, 2020
• Organ Retrieval / Cardiac Transplant (Observer) 2020 Mr Marius Berman Consultant Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgeon Associate UK Clinical Lead Organ Retrieval – NHSBT Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge 1st December 2020 – 30th December 2020

Teaching

• The Board of Education (Urological Society of India) conducts a training program for urology residents in-training and young urologist across India. I am a senior mentor and program developer for the laparoscopy section of this program.
• He has been instrumental in creating "home grown solutions" for laparoscopy modules and deploying them in these programs and training the residents and young urologist.
• These programs usually have 30 trainees running through 2-3 laparoscopy stations with a 1:1 trainee to mentor ratio; over a period of 2 days. There is skill assessment using scoring methods developed by me for the residents.
• He has developed an indigenous a silicone rubber model for laparoscopic pyeloplasty training. (awaiting patent)
• Has developed an indigenous laparascopy trainer for residents. (awaiting patent)
• He is the course director for the only cadaveric laparoscopy program in India, we have completed 4 training programs in the last three years.
  As a consultant in urology I spend about 4 hours a week on a combination of mentoring residents in urology, vascular access surgeries and in didactic sessions.
• This role expands to involve teaching at various levels; from wards rounds, outpatient/case based evaluation and teaching, case allotment and mentoring surgeries, assessing outcomes, encouraging and overseeing presentations at various regional and local fora, suitably modified to the various individual capacities of the residents.
• In addition he is also involved in teaching basic urology nursing to nurses in the urodynamics and procedure room.

 

OTHER ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Ureteric Injuries During Hysterectomy lecture to practicing Gynecologist Bangalore.2014
• Laproscopy in Urology-Ureteric Injuries lecture to practicing Gynecologist Bangalore.2015
• Evaluation of Bed Wetting: Importance of Effective History Taking & Voiding Diary lecture to practicing Pediatricians 2015
• Laparoscopic Urology and its benefits lecture for Family Physicians.2016
• Use of Lasers in Urology lecture for Family Physicians.2016
• Use of Lasers in Urology lecture for practicing doctors Indian Medical Association, Nelamangala.2016
• Laparoscopic urology in the pediatrics for practicing physicians.2016
• Laparoscopic Urology and its benefits lecture for Association of Family Physicians State conference.2016
• Urinary Stones: The long journey for practicing doctors Indian Medical Association, Yelahanka.2017
• Laparoscopic Urology and its benefits lecture for practicing doctors Indian Medical Association, Doddaballpur.2017
• Prostate problems lecture for the Senior Citizens association,Vidyaranyapura.2017
• Bio-medical waste segregation and management - Protecting people, protecting environment” lecture for Urology Nurses

   

Courses Organised/ Facilitated

 

 

Invited Participation

 

• Pre-Conference Instructional Course on Advanced Pediatric Endo-Urology, 4th Annual Conference of the Pediatric Urology Chapter of the Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Bangalore. Size – does it really matter ? The “Smaller” versus “Bigger” Amplatz ESWL in the Pediatric Age
• Botulinum toxin in Pediatric Urology Bladder Neck Incision in PUV 2014
• Urology Masterclass on Management of Detrusor Overactivity with Botulinum Toxin at NU Hospitals, Bangalore Overview of data & insights from BOTOX® clinical studies. Management of NDO from science to clinical strategy. 2014
• Urology Masterclass on PCNL at NU Hospitals, Bangalore. Ultrasound-guided needle guidance? Which dilatation technique is better? 2014
• Mentor (laparoscopy modules) at the URO-MET (Urology Medical Education & Technology). The Urological Society of India through the Board Of Education (subsection) has embarked on a new academic pursuit to address the ‘hands-on’ training of Urology Resident all over India; to establish uniformity/standardization in the teaching of the basic principles of TUR-P, PCNL, URS, flexi-renoscopy, and laparoscopy. 2016-present
• Regional Leaders in vascular access - AVATAR to formulate future directions in vascular access monitoring and access registry in India 2017- present
• Moderator & Demonstration(Ultrasound Doppler in AVF) for the Vascular Access Session – 20th T S Jairam live operative workshop, Bangalore 2017
• Faculty – Vascular access cannulation, Infection control and surveillance for Nurses and Technicians, AVATAR, Delhi 2018- present
• “Setting up a dry lab?” Invited lecture at the URO-Laparoscopy 2018 program at CMC, Vellore 2018
• “Dry Lab – Do I Even Need It?” Invited lecture at the 30th Annual Conference of Society of Genitourinary Surgeons of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana State. 2018
• Types of Vascular Access. Invited lecture at AVATAR, Interventional
• Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access - Delhi 2018
• Record Keeping and tracking of Surveillance. Invited lecture at AVATAR, Interventional Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access – Delhi 2018
• Ethics in Vascular Access Management. Invited lecture at AVATAR, Interventional Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access – Delhi 2019
• Record Keeping and tracking of Surveillance. Invited lecture at AVATAR, Interventional Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access – Delhi 2019
• Laparoscopic Intracorporeal Suturing - Principles of Suturing , Invited lecture, USICON - 53rd annual conference of Urological Society of India, Kochi 2020
• Role of Color Doppler in urologist armamentarium, Invited lecture, USICON - 53rd annual conference of Urological Society of India, Kochi 2020
• Ultrasound in Vascular Access, USI – Webinar 2020
• Brachio-basilic arterio venous fistula, USI – Webinar 2020
• Khivraj Symposium, Invited Faculty, Non-Transplant options in Chronic Kidney Disease – Urologist’s role. 31st Annual Conference of Association of Southern Urologists (Virtual) 2020
• Practical Approach to Doppler in Urology – 30th Annual conference of the North Zone chapter of the Urological Society of India 2021
• Simulation in Urology – 54th Annual conference of Urological Society of India. (ONLINE) 2021
• Faculty - “Robotic Urologic Surgeries” -25th T S Jairam Continuing Urological Education. 2022
• Co-convener - USI-ISU Instructional course on Vascular Access, 56th Annual Conference of Urological Society of India, Gurugram. 2023
• Faculty - KUA-BUS Operative Workshop – Vascular Access. Institute of Nephro-Urology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Centre. 2023
• Faculty – Operative/ Ultrasound training - at 2nd Annual Meeting – Renal Transplant Section of USI, KTCON 2023, Jalandhar 2023
• Faculty - Annual Hyderabad Urology Association conference - January 2024
• Faculty - Annual East Zone Urology Association Conference - Calcutta, April 2024.
• Faculty – Operative- at 3nd Annual Meeting – Renal Transplant Section of USI , KTCON 2023, Bhuwaneshwar 2024
• Faculty - 1st AVATAR INDIA Interventional Nephrology conference.Bangalore, July 12th -14th. 2024

National

• PCNL – Pushing the Limits (Poster). 12th Annual Conference Tamilnadu and Puducherry Association of Urologists - Erode. 2007
• Our Experience with Paediatric PCNL. 12th Annual Conference Tamilnadu and Puducherry Association of Urologists - Erode. 2007
• Medical Expulsive Therapy For Ureteric Calculi - The Present Practice. 12th Annual Conference Karnataka Urologists Association - Mysore. 2007
• Simultaneous Bilateral PCNL – Our Experience. 12th Annual Conference Karnataka Urologists Association - Mysore. 2007
• Renal Autotransplantation – Our Experience. IKDRC, Transplantation Update 2010 - Ahmedabad 2009
• Transplantation and Anomalous Renal Vein - Transplantation Update 2010 - Ahmedabad. 2010
• Renal Pedical Control by Ligasure in Pretransplant Nephrectomy - Transplantation Update 2011 - Ahmedabad.
• Geriatric Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy – Annual Conference USICON 2011 – Kolkata
• Primary Bladder Neck Obstruction in Women: Surgical Management and Outcome - Annual Conference USICON 2011 – Kolkata
  
• AV fistulae failure – What are the options? – 24th Zonal Conference SZ-USICON 2013 - Mysore 
• Ultrasound, Arteriovenous fistulae and the Urologist. Do they mix? NU Hospitals Video session at KUACON 2014, 19th Annual conference of the Karnataka Urology Association - Bangalore 2014
• Stent Register: Is it necessary and enough?- The Indian perspective For Dr. Dilip Adappa Best Paper Session at KUACON 2014, 19th Annual conference of the Karnataka Urology Association - Bangalore. 2014
• Pre-Conference Instructional Course on Advanced Pediatric Endo-Urology, 4th Annual Conference of the Pediatric Urology Chapter of the Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons - Bangalore.
• Size – does it really matter? The “Smaller” versus “Bigger” Amplatz
• ESWL in the Pediatric Age Botulinum toxin in Pediatric Urology Bladder Neck Incision in PUV 2014
• Urology Masterclass on Management of Detrusor Overactivity with Botulinum Toxin at NU Hospitals - presentations
• Overview of data & insights from BOTOX® clinical studies. Management of NDO from science to clinical strategy. 2014
• Urology Masterclass on PCNL at NU Hospitals - presentations Ultrasound-guided needle guidance? Which dilatation technique is better? 2014
• Senior Author in “A retrospective study of SLOT versus end to side anastomosis in AVF creation” presented at KUACON 2014, 19th Annual Conference of the Karnataka Urology Association – Bangalore 2014
• Senior Author in “Did the introduction of Ultrasound assessment by operating surgeon pre-op and intra-op improve AVF results?” at Bangalore Urology Society 2015
• Senior Author in “Vein augmentation for AVF Venous stenosis salvage” at SZ-USICON 12th July - Andhra Pradesh 2015
• Retroperitonioscopic tumor management – The Way Backward !! SZ-USICON 12th July - Andhra Pradesh 2015
• Ulno-basilic fistula (UB-AVF) – Is is an option ? SZ-USICON 10th -12th July – Andhra Pradesh 2015
• Senior Author in “SLOT vs End-side anastomosis in AVF” at SZ-USICON 12th July - Andhra Pradesh 2015
• Senior Author in “Salvage of arteriovenous access related aneurysms” poster at USICON - Hyderabad 2016
• Vein Augmentation – a useful salvage technique AVATAR 2016 - Interventional Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access - New Delhi 2016
• Retroperitoneal vs Transperitoneal Ureterocalicostomy, SZUSICON 2016 : XXVII Annual Conference of Association of Southern Urologists, Puducherry 2016
• Pseudoaneurysms – Outcomes Of Surgical Salvage" AVATAR 2017 - Interventional Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access - Goa 2017
• “Outcomes of Access Surgery in the Elderly" AVATAR 2018 - Poster Interventional Nephrology Conference for Vascular Access - Delhi 2018
• Senior Author in Cadaver Urologic Training – Dictum Or Novelty? Outcome of Laparoscopic Nephrectomy Training. 31st Annual Conference of Association of Southern Urologists (Virtual) 2020
• Retroperitoneoscopy Vs Laparascopy -To Complement, Not Compete At AIG Hospitals, Hyderabad. 2022
• Challenges in Retroperitoneal Surgery using open console systems, Association of Robotic Innovative Surgeons, Goa 2023
• Pre-op preparation and Imaging for Vascular Access, 56th Annual Conference of Urological Society of India, Gurugram. 2023
• Brachio-Basilic AVF – Semi Live demonstration, 56th Annual Conference of Urological Society of India, Gurugram. 2023
• Failing AV Access – case discussion, 56th Annual Conference of Urological Society of India, Gurugram. 2023
• Challenges in Retroperitoneal Surgery using the Versius, , 56th Annual Conference of Urological Society of India, Gurugram. 2023
• Vascular Mapping. Why? How? Then what? At the Operative Workshop – Vascular Access. Institute of Nephro-Urology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Centre. 2023
• Early Complications of Vascular Access at 2nd Annual Meeting – Renal Transplant Section of USI , KTCON 2023, Jalandhar 2023
• Complication of AV Fistula - NBEMS Urology Webinar Series. 2023
• Vascular Mapping for AV Access: What is it all about? - Annual Hyderabad Urology association conference - January 2024
• USG and Doppler In Vascular Access and Transplant - Annual East Zone Urology Association Conference - Calcutta, April 2024
• Complications in Vascular Access – at 3nd Annual Meeting – Renal Transplant Section of USI, KTCON 2023, Bhuvaneshwar 2024
• Salvage of Failing Access – Is there a role for Surgery? - 1st AVATAR INDIA Interventional Nephrology conference. Bangalore, July 2024
  

International

• Correlation of the anteroposterior diameter of the renal pelvis and parenchymal thickness after 3 months of Anderson-Hynes Dismembered Pyeloplasty in predicting change in the glomerular filtration rate and split renal function after 1 year in children with Ureteroplevic Junction Obstruction” American Urology Association Conference 2017, Boston. 2017
• Grand Challenge Session – Challenging Hemodialysis access creation at the Dialysis Access Synergy ( DASy) – Singapore 2019
• Grand Challenge Session – Challenging Hemodialysis access creation at the Dialysis Access Synergy ( DASy) – Singapore 2023

Papers

• Synchronous twin track percutaneous nephrolithotomy: A Preliminary Experience. S V Kandasami, R Krishna Rao, M Arul, M S Ranganath, T Krishna Prasad. Indian Journal of Urology, Volume 24 Issue 1. 2008
• Synchronized bilateral percutaneous nephrolithotomy in a horseshoe kidney. R Krishna Rao, M S Ranganath, T Krishna Prasad. Indian Journal of Urology, Volume 24 Issue 1. 2008
• Laparoscopic en bloc kidney transplantation Modi P, T Krishna Prasad, Rizvi S J, Vyas J, Padhi S, Shah K, Patel R Indian Journal of Urology. 2012 Jul-Sep; 28(3): 362–365. 2012
• Retroperitoneoscopic left donor nephrectomy with duplicated IVC. Rizvi SJ, T Krishan Prasad, Modi PR Indian Journal of Nephrology, 2012 Nov;22(6):480-1 2012
• Retroperitoneoscopic Living Donor Nephectomy and Laparoscopic Kidney Transplantation: Experience of First 72 Cases: Modi P, Rizvi J, Sharma V, Sharma S, Santosh B. S, Patel K, Patel C, Krishnaprasad T, Shah V, Modi. M, Trivedi H. Transplantation. 94(10S):186, November 27. 2012
• Retroperitoneoscopic Living-Donor Nephrectomy and Laparoscopic Kidney Transplantation: Experience of Initial 72 Cases Modi, P, Rizvi, J, Sharma V, Sharma S, Santosh B. S, Patel K, Patel C, Krishnaprasad, T, Shah. V, Modi. M, Trivedi. H. Transplantation. 95(1):100-105, January 15. 2013
• The Halo sign during a PCNL puncture” Techniques in Urology M.G. Pradeepa, Maneesh M. Sinha, Krishnaprasad Thyagaraj. CUAJ • March-April 2016 • Volume 10, Issues 3-4 2016
• Malignant refractory priapism: An urologist’s nightmare. Prabhuswamy VK, Krishnappa P, Thyagaraj K. Urol Ann, 2019 Apr-Jun;11(2):222-225 2019
• Successful Management of COVID-19 Pneumonia Following Live-Related Kidney Transplant in a 74-Year-Old Recipient Sameh Mayaleh, John Black, Islam Eldiasty, Baher Elshikh, Krishna Thayagaraj, Anna Rizello, Taher Doughman, Mohamed Morsy and Atul Bagul 2020
• Pseudoaneurysms in dialysis access – Outcomes of surgical repair. T Krishna Prasad, Maneesh Sinha, HS Harsha, K Prasannakumar, Venkatesh
• Krishnamoorthy. Indian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, July- September 2020| Vol 7| Issue 3 p. 245 2020
• Laparoscopy training status in India and a review of the current resident skill standards. T. Krishna Prasad, Rajeev Sood, Aneesh Srivastava, Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, Manu Gupta, Jamal S Rizvi, Surya Praksah Vaddi, Tarun Javali 2021 Urology Annals 2021
• Novel use of forearm perforator in vascular access. Prasad T Krishna, Timbadiya Nayan J Year : 2021 | Volume: 8 | Issue Number: 6 | Page: 178-180 2021
• Seenappa, NB, Krishnamoorthy, V, Sinha, M, T, Krishna Prasad. Role of the operating room nurses in the ureteric stent register. Int J Urol Nurs. 2022; 16( 2): 114- 119. 2022
• Seenappa, NB, Sinha, M, Krishna Prasad, T, Krishnamoorthy, V. An analysis of bacteriuria rates after endourological procedures. Int J Urol Nurs. 2023; 17( 1): 45- 49. 2023
• Rare Occurrence of Prostate Cancer Metastasizing to the Orbit: A Case Report. S Praveena, K Vinay, Karunakar Chalimidi, & T Krishna Prasad. (2022). Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital, 21(2), 62–64.