Best oncologist in Miraj for Genitourinary Cancer, Gynecological Cancer, Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer

• Dr Makarand Khochikar qualified as a surgeon in 1988 (Miraj), completed his residency in urology in 1992 (Mumbai) and then had further training in urology, urologic oncology at Bedford and Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge (UK) from
• 1993-1998. He returned to India in 1998 to establish a state of the art Uro- oncology unit at Siddhi Vinayak Ganapati Cancer Hospital, Miraj. This department undertakes large amount of uro-oncological work and has made its presence felt nationally and internationally. . Dr Khochikar has won many awards. Dr Kirpekar award and Gold Medal for standing first in university in Master of Surgery exam in1988, Schering Prize and a Gold medal for standing first at University of London in Dip. Urol exam in
• 1991, Vijayawada Best poster award and Brijkishor Patana best paper award are some of them. He was awarded the highest honour of urological society of India (West Zone) – The Urology Gold Medal in 2010. Recipient of Gold Medal and SLAUS oration by Sri Lanka Urology Association in 2011. In year 2012- he was awarded yet another prestigious award – Pinamaneni Oration and Gold medal by USI for his life time work on adrenal tumors mainly pheochromocytoma. He has one of the largest individual series on adrenal tumors in India. He was awarded the best reviewer’s award – special appreciation by Indian Journal of Urology for 2015. SZ USI decorated him in2018 with Prof Dr. P B Sivaraman oration award for developing Uro-oncology specialty in India. He has delivered SIU lecture /oration at Myanmar Uronephrosociety in 2017 and at ASMIUA at Indonesia in 2018. The Philippines Society of Urologic Oncology ( PSUO) invited him to deliver the PSUO oration on 2018 at Manila on penile cancer. The prestigious Prof Roy Chally oration award on his life time work on kidney cancer at KUA in 2018 was appreciated by all. BJUI has awarded him with the Best Reviewer's award of 2019 and Bronze Award in year 2020 . He delivered prestigious Dr V V Desai oration in 2019 and SIU lecture in
• Oman in 2019. He has produced many high quality original publications; review articles in peer reviewed national and international journals and contributed in book chapters. Has been invited as a national and international faculty to many centres, has conducted large number of symposia, operative demonstrations and delivered guest lecturers across the globe. Teaching has been very close to his heart, has been conducting teaching courses on Uro-oncology since last 20 years, a weeklong crash course on Uro-oncology conducted annually at Muljibhai Patel urological hospital, Nadiyad and JPAC is the most popular course in urology in India. He has conducted teaching courses for Asian School of Urology and SUA at Singapore, BAUS and ASU at Bangladesh, European School of Urology and ASU at Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. He has been part of AUA -USI instructional courses in India and has conducted instructional courses at SIU annual meetings. Recently he conducted a three day course on Uro- oncology at Nadiyad which was webcasted by SIU academy. Has been invited as a guest speaker for many international meetings ( AUA
• , SIU , EAU, WPCC , WUOF , BAUS , Euroasian Urooncology group ) and by international societies in Asia ( India , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Myanmar), Japan , Australia, UK
• , Germany, Italy , France, Spain , Greece , Middle East , UAE , Egypt , USA and Canada in last twenty years. He delivered SIU lecture at Myanmar Nephro urological conference in 2017 and at ASMIUA Indonesia in 2018. He was the core member of the Guidelines committee that designed Indian Bladder Cancer Guidelines for Urological society of India. He was the member of the Indian panel that recommended amendments in TNM classification system for urological cancers in 2004. He was on the panel for the Melbourne Prostate Cancer statement, at WPCC meeting in Australia in
• 2014. Also contributed as a member of Asia Pacific Advanced Prostate
• Cancer Consensus Conference guidelines at Melbourne in 2018
• Was invited as an examiner for exit exam in urology at Singapore and for P hD at Pravara University, Pravaranagar (India) . He was invited as a visiting Professor at Medipol University , Istanbul ( Turkey) in 2019. Dr Khochikar was a member of the ICUD (International Consultation on Urologic Diseases) consultation panel for upper tract TCC supported by SIU and is also currently involved in preparing ICUD –SIU guidelines on bladder cancer. Dr Khochikar served on editorial board of Indian Journal of Urology (2000-
• 2009), Current Urology Reports, and peer reviewer for BJUI, Journal of Urology, Indian Journal of surgery, Indian Journal of cancer, Urology Annals, International Journal of Urology, Journal of Clinical Urology and many others. He has served as a guest editor of the special issue of IJU on hormone refractory prostate cancer. He did undertake the course for the reviewers by Journal of Urology. He is currently consulting editor for British Journal of Urology International - BJUI. He has served as a council member of Urological society of India (USI), USI- West Zone, was a core member of education cell of USI and has served as a convener of research cell of USI. He was the convener of the section of uro- oncology for the USI (2003-2007). He has exceptional organizational skills. He had organized a three day International Uro –oncology conference in 2011 at Miraj on completion of 12 years of his the Uro –oncology department. Another International Uro oncology conference was organized by him at Goa in 2017 wherein nearly 450 delegates participated from various parts of the world. He has been National delegate for the Indian section of SIU 2015-2019, has served as Deputy National Delegate from 2013-2015. He was appointed as Board of Directors of SIU in Oct 2016. He has served as President of the Urological society of India –West zone in year 2017-18. He is full member of USI , USI -WZ, AUA , BAUS , SIU , UAA and IBCN .

Information

• Shri Siddhivinayak Ganapati Cancer Hospital, Miraj ,Miraj
• Sangli - Miraj Rd, Shivaji Nagar, Miraj, Maharashtra 416410

Education

• Fellow European Board of Urology (FEBU )
• FRCS ( Urology) : Intercollegiate Speciality Examination -Urology Diploma Urology , UCL , London
• DNB ( Urology) , Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences , Mumbai
• MS ( General Surgery) , India
• MBBS , India

Memberships

• Urological Society of India (USI)
• West Zone Chapter of Urological Society on India ( WZ-USI)
• American Urological Association (AUA)
• British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS)
• Society Urology Internationale (SIU)
• World Urologic Oncology Forum ( WUOF)
• Urological Association of Asia - Full Member ( UAA)
• International Bladder Cancer Network (IBCN)

Awards and Recognitions

• Gold Medal and Merit awards for the first , second and Final MBBS exams . First in Gen surgery at final MBBS exam (1982, 1983, 1984 )
• Dr Kirpekar Award for Standing First in the Merit at Master of Surgery exam ( M.S.) at Shivaji University , Kolhapur , Dec 1998 Schering Prize and Gold Medal for standing first in the University of London ( UCL) at Dip Urol exam at Institute of Urology, London , 1996
• Brij Kishor Patana Prize - Best Poster USI , 1999
• Vijaywada Best Paper Prize - USI , 2000
• Urology Gold Medal USI WZ ,2010
• SLAUS Gold Medal Sri Lanka, 2011
• Pinamanneni Award and Gold Medal USI , 2012 Prof P B Sivaraman award and Gold Medal ASU , 2018
• Prof Roy Chally Oration award and Gold Medal KUA, 2018
• Best Reviewer's Award Indian Journal of Urology , 2017
• Best Reviewer's Award British Journal of Urology International ( BJUI) , 2018-19
• Bronze Award for Best Reviewer BJUI ,2019
• Dr V V Desai oration ( Presidential oration ) and Gold Medal USI WZ ,2019

Experience

• Chief Uro-oncologist at Shri Siddhivinayak Ganapati Cancer Hospital, Miraj
• Resident Urologist at Muljibhai Patel Urology Hospital, Nadiyad
• Resident Urologist at Muljibhai Patel Urology Hospital, Nadiyad
• Registrar in Urology at Bedford General Hospital , Bedford ( UK)
• Senior Registrar Urology at Addenbrooke's Hospital , Cambridge ( UK)

Areas of interest

• Urological Cancer