PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS: INTERNATIONAL:

Presented Potency Sparing Radical Prostatectomy - Technique and Results at Urology Meetings locally and Overseas.

Above paper presented at The World Congress of International College of Surgeons Meeting in San Paulo Brazil September 1990.

Presented Anatomic Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy to Bombay Urologic Society  Bombay, India  June 1988

Presented ESWL - Technique and Results to Bombay Urologic Society  Bombay, India June 1988

One day Vs 2 day Catheterization after TUR-P Retrospective Analysis of 150 TUR-P’s done.  Presented at Western Section of The American Urologic Association Meeting, Vancouver BC.  September 1991

Reconstruction of Ureter using Vermiform Appendix.  Presented at Western Section of The American Urologic Association MeetingVancouver, BC  September 1991

Ultrasonography In The Care Of Infertile Male   Joint paper with Ricardo H. Asch. M.D.
Presented at the International Infertility Meeting  Bombay, India
January 1995,

MESA & ICSI In The Care Of Infertile Male - Roundtable Discussion at the International
Infertility Meeting, Bombay, India January 1995

Ultrasongraphy & MESA In The Management of Infertility - Presented to the Bombay
Urologic Society, Bombay,India January 1995

Radical Prostatectomy:Technique and Results: Presented World Congress of Urology. November 2001,New Delhi,India

Ultrasound in the care of the Infertile Male: World Congress of Urology,November 2001,New Delhi,India.

Presented Robotic Surgery: Bombay Urological Society,Bombay Hospital, Bombay, India August 2003

Presented “Robotic Prostatectomy–A new Technology”-University of Melbourne-Melbourne Australia January 2004.

Presented “ROBOTIC Prostatectomy” in a Community Hospital, 15th.World Video-Urology Congress, Busan, South Korea,June 2004.

ROBOTIC Prostatectomy-Teaching Grand Rounds,University of Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand,August 2004

Invited Speaker-WORLD Congress of ENDOUROLOGY 2004, Mumbai India

Moderator: Robotic and Laproscopic Surgery, WORLD Congress of ENDOUROLOGY 2004, Mumbai India

Presented “Robotic Prostatectomy–A new Technology” St. Francis Hospital ,BERLIN, Germany  March 2008

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS: NATIONAL

Presented Anatomic Radical Prostatectomy to Toledo Surgical
Society, Toledo, Ohio March 1988

ABCD’s of Prostate Cancer Grand Rounds Presentation, Western
Medical Center, Santa Ana June 1991

Updates in Infertility & Vasectomy Reversal - Public Forum, Western Medical Center,
Santa Ana, January 1995

Infertility Management - Recent Updates - Presented at the Grand Rounds, Western Medical
Center, Anaheim, March 1995

Participant: 1st.World Congress on Radical Prostatectomies.Cleveland Clinic,March 2002

Participant:  1st.World Symposium on Robotic Radical Prostatectomy. Detroit November 2002

Presented “Use of Surgical Robots” to Presidential Partners and Board of Trustees, St.Joseph Hospital at Pacific Club, Newport Beach, May 1,2003

Participant: 2nd. World Symposium on Robotic Radical Prostatectomy. Detroit November
2003

Participant 3rd.. World Symposium on Robotic Radical Prostatectomy. Detroit November
2006

Certified: Interstitial Brachtherapy for Prostate Cancer     1997

Certified: Laproscopic Radical Prostatectomies ,Computer Motion,Goleta, CA September, 2001

Certified: Laproscopic Urological Surgery, Dallas & Chicago 2001

ROBOTIC Prostatectomy-Teaching Grand Rounds- St.Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA July 2004 and November 2005

Comparison of Open to Robotic Prostatectomy, Video Session, Western American Urology Association Meeting, MAUI, Hawaii, October 2006

Robotic Prostatectomy in a Community Hospital, Podium Session, Western American Urology Association Meeting, MAUI, Hawaii, October 2006

Simple Trick can Save a Practice a lot, Round Table Presentation, Western American Urology Association Meeting, MAUI, Hawaii, October 2006

Career Highlights:

Performed 1st.Laproscopic Nephrectomy @ St.Joseph’s  Hospital  March 2001

Performed 1st.Laproscopic Adrenalectomy @ St.Joseph’s  Hospital, February 2002

PERFORMED 1ST.ROBOT-ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY PERFORMED AT ST.JOSEPH HOSPITAL,APRIL 8,2003 using Aesop Robot

PERFORMED 1ST.ROBOT-ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY PERFORMED AT ST.JOSEPH HOSPITAL, July 10,2003 using  DaVinci Robot

PERFORMED 1st.ROBOT-ASSISTED NEPHRECTOMY AT ST.JOSEPH HOSPITAL-JUNE 2004

CURRICULUM VITAE OF ASHOK J. KAR, M.D. (Contd.)

Presented Robotic Surgery: Bombay Urological Society, Bombay Hospital, Bombay, India August 2003

Featured on Public Television: Robotic Surgery in 2003.Public TV Broadcast December 2003