A senior urologist and teacher, Dr. Janak Desai is known for his innovation of UMP ( Ultra Mini PCNL) and

for doing teaching workshops on PCNL in approximately 35 countries of the world. Dr. Janak Desai was

conferred an honorary FRCS by the Royal college of surgeons, Glasgow, and also a honorary membership

of the German Urology association. He was conferred the B. C. Roy award by the President of India for his

contribution to Urology. Dr. Desai was invited by the British Urology Society to deliver the prestigious

Malcolm Coptcoat lecture in year 2009 and twice by the Royal society of Medicine to deliver orations in

their annual meetings. Dr. Desai has been awarded the Prof. John Wickham medal and lecture for

Innovation in Urology. He has been doing instructional courses on PCNL in the AUA meetings and has a

chapter on Miniaturised PCNL in the "Smith's Textbook of Urology". Dr. Janak Desai has authored chapters

in a few books and also published papers in peer reviewed journals.