About Dr. Sudhakar Krishnamurti Dr. Sudhakar Krishnamurti, andrologist and microsurgeon, is 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 pursued his andrological training overseas, notably 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 duplex doppler evaluation, Rigiscan monitoring and phalloarteriography for impotence. He has performed the first microsurgical varicocelectomy and the first microsurgical bypass operation for impotence. Many of his operative series for impotence and infertility are India’s largest. Dr. Krishnamurti is an active member of many academic associations and has presented and published several papers at national and international fora. He has also been invited to lecture and/or operate in Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Turkey, Nepal, Muscat, China and Egypt. Dr. Krishnamurti is the only Asian to have 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 for having described a new operation for Peyronie’s disease – a disease which can cause impotence. Dr. Krishnamurti is also the only Indian on the W.H.O.'s panel of impotence experts invited to attend the 1st International Consultation on Erectile Dysfunction in Paris in July, 1999. He has co-authored the W.H.O. handbook’s chapter on `Surgical Treatment and Mechanical Devices’. His other decorations include a visiting fellowship at the University of Nanjing, China and an executive committee membership with the Asia-Pacific Society of Impotence Research. Dr. Krishnamurti is also on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Andrology. In December 1999, he was conferred an honorary fellowship by the CSEPI (Council of Sex Education and Parenthood International. Dr. Krishnamurti is presently the convener of the andrology section of the Urological Society of India, which has also conferred on him important awards in the past. His present research interests include venogenic impotence, gender reassignment and penis enlargement, where he is working on new operations. You may reach him anytime at doctor@andrology.com

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