Prokar Dasgupta, MD

King's College London

Professor Prokar Dasgupta is an Academic Urologist based in London, UK. He was appointed as Consultant Urologist to Guy's Hospital, London in 2002 where he pioneered robotic urological surgery within the UK. He is credited with the "Dasgupta technique" of injecting Botulinum toxin in overactive bladders. He became the first Professor of Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation at King's College London in 2009. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the BJUI.
Professor Prokar Dasgupta, Professor of Surgery at King’s Health Partners is a clinician-scientist, pioneering robotic surgeon and King James IV Professor. He is Chair of The Centre for Robotics at The London Clinic, the first private institution in the UK to introduce this technology. He became the first Professor of Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation at King's College London and subsequently the Chairman of the King’s-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery.
As a leading educationist he published the first international trial of surgical simulation for patient safety. In 2010 and 2018 he was named one of the top ten prostate cancer surgeons in the UK.
His main research interest is in the immunology of prostate cancer. He is also credited with describing an innovative method of injecting Botulinum toxin (Botox) to target bladder nerves, a method which has been named after him and helped millions of patients worldwide.
He was awarded the Fellowship of King’s College (FKC) and St Peter’s medal, the highest award British Association of Urological Surgeons.
In 2020 he completed nearly a decade as Editor-in-Chief of a 90-year old journal, the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) after transforming it into one of the most read surgical journals on the web.
He is a Trustee to a number of charities including the Malcolm Coptcoat Trust, Prostate Cancer Research, UK and The Prostate Cancer Foundation in Kolkata, India.

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Presentation(s):

• MP32: Surgical Technology & Simulation: Instrumentation & Technology I

  Saturday, May 14, 2022
  2:45 PM – 4:00 PM

• Session III: Localized Disease—Surgical Forum

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  10:40 AM – 11:45 AM

• Panel Discussion: Solving Extreme Indications for Robotics

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  11:15 AM – 11:45 AM

• Artificial intelligence and Robotic Surgery

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  1:15 PM – 1:25 PM

• Session 2 – Debate Session

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  1:45 PM – 3:05 PM

• Laparoscopic Robotic Surgical Systems – Emerging Systems in Urology Use

  Monday, May 16, 2022
  8:45 AM – 9:30 AM