User:SudhakarKrishnamurti

Dr. Sudhakar Krishnamurti, andrologist and microsurgeon, is the first Indian doctor to practice exclusive clinical andrology. He is presently the Director of Andromeda Andrology Center, Hyderabad: India's first exclusive andrology center.

He obtained his early medical education from the T.N. Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Hospital, Bombay. During his academic career, he was awarded many gold medals, scholarships and prizes. After completing his M.S. in general surgery and serving as lecturer at the University of Bombay, Dr. Krishnamurti obtained his andrological knowledge abroad - in the United States of America, Belgium, the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands.

Dr. Krishnamurti is credited with many All India Firsts in the areas of investigative and operative andrology. He is the first Indian to start penile duplex doppler evaluation, Rigiscan monitoring and phalloarteriography for impotence. He has performed the first microsurgical varicocelectomy and the first microsurgical revascularization (bypass) operation for impotence. Many of his operative series for impotence and infertility are India's largest. In recognition of these, the Urological Society of India has conferred on him the 'Innovations in Urology' and 'State-of-the-Art Lecture' awards.

Dr. Krishnamurti is an active member of several academic associations and has presented and published several papers at national and international fora. He has been invited to lecture and / or operate in Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Turkey, Nepal, Muscat, China, France, Egypt, Taiwan, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia.

Dr. Krishnamurti is the only Asian to have ever received the prestigious Herbert Newman award for original clinical research in the field of impotence. He was awarded this at the 6th World Impotence Meeting, Singapore, 1994, for having described a new penile dermal flap operation for Peyronie's disease - a disease which can cause impotence.

Dr. Krishnamurti is also the only Indian twice appointed on the W.H.O.'s panel of impotence experts. He was a committee member at both the 1st and 2nd International Consultation(s) on Erectile Dysfunction, which were held in Paris in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He has co-authored, in two consecutive editions, the W.H.O. Erectile Dysfunction handbook's chapter on 'Surgical Treatment and Mechanical Devices'.

His other appointments include:

Editorial board member: Journal of Sexual Medicine (JSM) Editorial board member (former): International Journal of Impotence Research (IJIR)

Editorial board member (former): Asian Journal of Andrology (AJA)

Editorial board member: World Journal of Urology (WJU)

Editorial board member: Fertility Today

Reviewer: Indian Journal of Urology (IJU)

Executive committee member: Asia Pacific Society for Sexual Medicine (APSSM)

Chairman: Audits Committee, APSSM

Visiting fellow: University of Nanjing, China

Honorary fellow: Council of Sex Education and Parenthood International (CSEPI)

Advisory committee member: International Society for the Study of the Aging Male (ISSAM)

Advisory committee member: Asia Pacific Society for the Study of the Aging Male (APSSAM) Board member: Asian Erectile Dysfunction Advice, Counselling and Therapy Group (Asian EDACT)

Convener (former): Andrology section of the Urological Society of India (USI)

Founder: Andrology, Gender, Aging & Sexual sciences Society of India (AGASSI)

Member: Awards and Prizes Committee - International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM)

Member: Research & Scientific Committee, APSSM

Member: Standards Committee, ISSM

Member: Publications Committee, ISSM

Member: Advisory Committee, 10th Biennial Meeting of the Asia Pacific Society for Sexual Medicine (APSSM); Cairns, Australia: October 2005

Organizing Chairman - APSSM-AGASSI Conference

Dr. Krishnamurti is also a writer, columnist and men's health advisor and contributes regularly to many medical textbooks, journals, newspapers, magazines and health portals, including his own award-winning website, www.andrology.com. His contributions to andrology have also been recognised by many lay fora and he has been featured in the Limca Book of Records, Biography International, and many other newspapers, magazines, radio and television shows. His new book, 'Sex Is Not A Four Letter Word', an edutainment book written essentially for the lay reader, is slated to hit the stands very soon.

You may reach him anytime at andrologist@gmail.com.