Mrs Kalpana Patil

About

Mrs Kalpana Patil is a consultant paediatric urologist. She qualified in medicine at Bombay University in 1981, trained in general surgery and then in paediatric surgery, and joined the GMC specialist register in paediatric surgery in 2001. She spent nearly three years in subspecialty training in paediatric urology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and has worked in India, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom across more than thirty years in paediatric urology and paediatric surgery. She follows children with kidney problems picked up on antenatal scans from birth onwards, and treats urinary infection and daytime and night-time wetting. Her surgical work includes reconstruction for hypospadias, buried penis and varicocele, bladder reconstruction, pyeloplasty, nephrectomy and ureteric reimplantation, orchidopexy for undescended testes, repair of inguinal hernia and hydrocele, cystoscopy with injection treatment for vesicoureteric reflux, and conditions of the foreskin including newborn circumcision.