Dr. mahesh patwardhan special interests have been advanced Laparoscopic surgery, colposcopy and incontinence surgery in UK Hospitals

1. My Medical Career:
I joined GS Medical College, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, one of the prime institutes in 1980 as a
medical student. I passed my final MBBS in December 1984 with a distinction in the subject
of preventive and social medicine. After completing the internship for one year, I joined the
postgraduate programme in the same institute to do my MD in obstetrics and gynaecology.
I completed that in three years in 1989 and I was first in the theory part of the final MD
examination. My university training included working in Wadia Maternity Hospital and
KEM Hospital, Mumbai.
Before that, I completed diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology, Fellowship of the college of
physicians and surgeons and diploma in family planning. All these three degrees were from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which is affiliated to Mumbai University.
I then completed my diplomat of national board from New Delhi.
I joined as a youngest lecturer in the BMC in 1989 and worked at Rajawadi hospital, RN
Cooper Hospital and KEM Hospital. I resigned as a senior lecturer in order to pursue my
career further in the United Kingdom.
I came to the UK in 1993 and underwent the training programme again. During this
programme, I worked at various hospitals in London, which were Newham General
Hospital, Haroldwood Hospital, Royal London Hospital, North Middlesex Hospital. I was
awarded the MRCOG in 1996 and subsequently FRCOG in 2009. My training also included a
research Fellowship at the St Bartholomew’s Hospital and my topic was “Adhesion
Prevention”.
After completing the training programme in obstetrics and gynaecology, I also completed
my formal training as a family practitioner in 2002. I came back to my passion of obstetrics
and gynaecology and joined as a senior registrar at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
Woolwich in 2003. I subsequently became a full time consultant in October 2004. I left my
job as a consultant in 2013 February. During this tenure, I worked as a lead of colposcopy
unit for four years and also as a clinical director for a short tenure. I also did my private
practice in Blackheath Hospital, London, London Independent hospital, Spire Roding
Hospital in Ilford and Holly House Hospital in Woodford Green.
My special interests have been advanced Laparoscopic surgery, colposcopy and
incontinence surgery. I was a formal trainer for the Gynecare and Ethicon division of
Johnson and Johnson for seven years and managed to set up various units across the UK for
procedures such as laparoscopic hysterectomies, TVTO etc. I also was a trainer at the
Hamburg Institute in Germany, which was a training programme for consultants across the
world to learn advanced laparoscopic surgery techniques on live pigs.
I started working as a chief visiting laparoscopic surgeon at the Beams institute in Mumbai
in 2014. Since 2014 till date, I have set up the advanced laparoscopic centre in Mumbai and

2. have been performing various advanced techniques. I also work there as a trainer for the
Ethicon division of Johnson and Johnson and have done course as a flying surgeon in
various places in India such as Ludhiana, Salem, Hyderabad, etc.