Dr. Vikas received his urological and renal transplant training from prestigious Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad (Gujarat). He further received training in deceased donor renal transplant at Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona (Spain). Dr Vikas  has  independently started the First Renal Transplant and Urology department at ILBS. Under his leadership, the department is achieving newer heights and the graft survival rate has been 100% till date. He is an advanced laparoscopic urologist and has been popularizing “Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN)” i.e. removal of kidney from donor through “key hole” amongst patients and fellow transplant surgeons. He is a reviewer to Indian J Urol. It is an official journal of Urological Society of India.

DNB (Genito-urinary Surgery) : Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad

MBBS : Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

MS (Gen Surg) : Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

• Received scholarship from European Foundation of Urology to attend Semi-Live 2017, to be organised by  the Department of Urology of the University Hospital Heidelberg , Germany between 16-18th February 2017.

• First in Biochemistry at the First MBBS university exam held in Feb-March 1996
• Recipient of award endowed by the All India Conference of ACBI, Manipal, for securing the highest marks in Biochemistry in the Feb-March 1996
• Surgical Society of Mysore, PG Best Paper Award for paper entitled- Postnatal management and outcome of antenatal hydronephrosis due to pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction, presented at 22nd Annual Conference of KSC-ASICON at Bangalore in Feb. 2004
• 2nd Best Paper Award in its category for Video presentation titled "Laparoscopic pyeloplasty: How we do it! at the 18th West Zone USICON held at Solapur, Maharashtra, between 13th and 16th November 2008
• Recipient of USI-EAU Travelling Fellowship to attend European Urology Resident Education Program (EUREP)-2009 at Prague between 28th August and 2nd September 2009
• Won the First Prize in MCQ examination conducted at the USI-AUA Instructional Course-Mock examination and Annual Review Course conducted jointly by USI and AUA at Mumbai on 28th and 30th September 2009
• Prof CKP Menon Best Paper Award: Tadalafil monotherapy is as efficacious as Tamsulosin in patients with LUTS secondary to BPH: results of first head-on comparative, prospective, randomized study to evaluate the efficacy of Tadalafil and Tamsulosin, in patients with LUTS secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia at the USICON 2010
• 2nd Prize Vijayawada Prize Poster category: Donor gonadal vein reconstruction for extension of the transected renal vessels in living renal transplantation at the USICON 2010
• First Indian to have been awarded the scholarship by European Association of Urology (EUSP), to visit Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain for " Short-Term-Visit"

Memberships of Professional Bodies

• International member: American Urological Association

• Corresponding Member: European Association of Urology

• Full Member: Urological Society of India

• Member: North Zone Chapter of USI

• Member: Indian Society of Organ Transplantation

• Member: American Society of Transplant

Surgical Expertise and Areas of interest

• Renal Transplant, Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, vascular access for hemodialysis

• Laparoscopic urology

• Basic and advanced Endo-urology (including Laser urological procedures)

        Total Number of publications in 2016:                         2

• 49th Annual Conference of USI (USICON 2016) held at Hyderabad, between 7th & 10th  Jan ’16:

• Vijayawada Prize Poster: In-situ anastomosis of multiple graft arteries to the branches of internal iliac artery: an underutilized” technique to address multiple renal arteries in live donor kidney transplantation.
• Poster presentation: En-bloc (Dual) kidney transplant from a 16-month old brain donor to an adult recipient: A case report and literature review.

• 34th World Congress of Endourology and SWL held at Capetown, between 8th to 12th November 2016:

• Poster presentation: Ureteroscopic management of calculus disease in patients with “uncorrected coagulopathy” in chronic liver disease (CLD): myths and facts.
• Poster presentation: Genitourinary gossypiboma revisited: three different presentations and their management in the present era of minimally invasive urology.

• Invited as faculty, to Chair a session at Annual Conference of Urological Society of India (USICON 2013) held at Pune between  17th and 20th Jan 2013
• Video presentation on ‘’Vascular Mishaps During Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery: They Do Happen and Can be Managed Laparoscopically’’ (Chandigarh Best Video Category) at USICON 2013, Pune
• Delivered a Lecture on ‘’Interviewing Renal Donor’’ at 2nd Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Co-ordination by Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi between 23rd and 25th  September 2013.