Dr R.K.Mishra

Dr. R. K. Mishra is one of the most experienced professor of laparoscopic and robotic surgery who has alone trained more than 7000 surgeon and gynecologist from more than 108 countries. He has vast experience of teaching laparoscopic and da Vinci robotic surgery. He is Professor of Minimal Access Surgery and his endeavor of starting unique university program was started in Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, U. K. with Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri. Dr. Mishra has taken his Diploma in Laparoscopic Surgery from university of Strasbourg, France. He has completed his surgical residency and Master degree in Minimal Access Surgery (M.MAS) from Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, United Kingdom. During his work in United Kingdom Dr. Mishra has discovered the optimum shadow casting illumination technique to improve the task performance of laparoscopic surgery and his research is now used by eleven laparoscopic instrument companies to make ideal shadow casting telescope. This original research of shadow in laparoscopy was published in Archive of Surgery. dundee Dr. Mishra is among few fortunate who has been conferred degree of Master in Minimal Access Surgery by Sir James Whyte Black (Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine) and the most prestigious Chancellor in the history of University of Dundee, United Kingdom. After mastering Laparoscopic Surgery, Dr. Mishra has further refined his robotic surgery training at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. After returning to India from UK in year 2001 he worked at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. New Delhi. Dr. Mishra could feel the pain and concern about high cost laparoscopic surgery to Indian people and he started performing free laparoscopic surgery for needy. Due to his charity work he received Super Idol Award from Being Human Foundation, a registered charitable trust of Salman Khan. He also felt commercialization of half cooked fractured laparoscopic training available in India. These training program were in the hand of industry who make laparoscopic instruments. Keeping in mind the need of time and being the first qualified Master Minimal Access Surgeon, he started giving training of Minimal Access Surgery.