Professor Dr. Azfar Uddin Shaikh, MD, is the only American trained Urologist practicing Urology and Andrology in Bangladesh. Before returning to Bangladesh, he was serving as a Consultant Urologist at Miramichi Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada. Dr. Azfar was an extraordinary student at his pre-graduate level and received “Chancellor” prize from Honorable President of Bangladesh for the position in combined merit list in SSC & HSC. He is graduated (MBBS) from Dhaka Medical College in 1993 and joined Department of Surgery, BIRDEM Hospital. Dhaka just after internship. He started his post-graduation in Urology as the pioneer / first batch student of Masters in Urology (MS) from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (the then IPGM.R) in 1996. There after he completed his General Surgery and Urology training from Dhaka Medical College Hospital as an Assistant Registrar and from BSMMU as an Urology Resident. After completion of MS (Urology), he joined Department of Urology, DMCH in 2002, Dr. Azfar is a Scholar of Singapore Urological Association in 2004 and served as a Registrar Urology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. After completion of his Fellowship in Urology and Renal transplantation from Singapore, he joined newly built Apollo Hospitals Dhaka (Current Evercare Hospital) , only JCI accredited hospital in Bangladesh, as Urology Specialist in 2005 and served there for seven years. He was the founder of the Urology there and made it a state of the art Urology center in Bangladesh. He started first time routine TRUS guided Standard 12 core Prostate biopsy in Bangladesh in 2004. He was awarded SIU Fellowship and received that fellowship training in Urology & Robotic Surgery from renowned All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India in 2007. To earn the highest knowledge in Urology and to learn the cutting edge technology, Dr. Azfar moved to USA and completed his MD there. He did his residency at New York Medical College and fellowship in Urology from Lincoln Medical Center, NY, USA. He then moved to Canada in 2017 to work as Consultant Urologist at Miramichi Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada. On returning Bangladesh, to serve the country, he joined BRB Hospital Ltd as Consultant & Head of Urology in 2018. He also worked as Senior Consultant & Head of Urology Imperial Hospital Ltd., Chattogram from May 2019 to April 2020. He has a kin academic interest and served as Assistant Professor in Urology at Govt and Private Medical Colleges. Currently Dr. Azfar is working as a Senior Consultant Urology & Andrology, Central Hospitals Ltd, Road 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka. He has established “American Standard Urology Care” at House 17/1, Road-5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka with a goal to provide North American Standard Urology and Andrology service in Bangladesh. He was a professor of urology at SMCH. Currently he is the HOD of Urology at AKMML.
Dr. Azfar Shaikh practices General Urology, Uro-oncology, Reconstructive Urology, Neuro-urology, Female and Pediatric Urology. He is very much used to modern Urological surgeries like PCNL, RIRS, Flexible URS, Laser Surgery, HoLEP, Robotic Urology etc. One of his special interest is Andrology, male sexual dysfunction and infertility. He provides American Standard treatment for all types of sexual dysfunctions starting from advanced medical therapy to Penile prosthesis implantation. During his Fellowship at Lincoln MC, NY, he learned incontinence surgeries well.
Dr. Azfar always keeps him updated with modern Urology trends and attended many conferences all over the world. He has more than ten original publications in National and International Urology journals. Please see his instructional videos : Instructional videos on TV networks with the links (if those links don’t work, copy and paste link to Google and then search) below to know more about your Kidney, Urological and Sexual problems. Kidney and Urological problems and its remedy :