Dr Pankaj Nandkishore Maheshwari, Consultant Urologist, Fortis Hospital Mulund and honorary assistant professor of Urology at Grant Medical College has won the Urology Gold Medal award for the year 2020 for his exemplary services in the field of urology was held in Goa recently, during the conference of the West Zone chapter of the Urological Society of India. Dr Maheshwari has contributed to society through multiple medical camps, awareness programmes, NGOs like Lions Club and educational articles in newsletters.

Dr Maheshwari has to his credit more than 60 publications in national and international journals and has a wide experience of management of urinary calculus disease patients. He is a pioneer in the use of Holmium Laser in urology in India. He started performing Holmium Laser enucleation of the prostate for management of benign enlargement of the prostate in late 1998. He popularised Holmium Laser enucleation of the Prostate across India and has been one of the initial persons to start therapeutic flexible Ureteroscopy in India. He has demonstrated HoLEP in most major centres in India, Bangladesh and Kunming in China and has delivered nearly a hundred guest lectures in national and regional conferences.

He was invited as a faculty member to various international Urology society meetings like Society Internationale Urology, European Urology, World Endo-urology Congress, Society Internationale Urology, Singapore Urology Association, Indian section of American Urology Association, Golden Bridge Urology Association at Kunming & Vietnam Urology & Nephrology association. 

His written work is said to be quite compelling and informative. His eight publications are quoted in the Campbell textbook of Urology. Being a member of the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Urology, he has reviewed more than 20 national and international Urology and medical journals.