January-February 2018 Reviewer of the Issue - Siavash Falahatkar
Siavash Falahatkar

March 2018

Siavash Falahatkar is Professor of Urology at Guilan 
University of medical science. He graduated from the 
University of Mashhad in the field of Urology. He spent the 
general fellowship period of minimally invasive surgery 
in laparoscopy hospital in India. He also spent the course 
on endourology in the Labafinezhad Hospital in Iran. He 
works in Razi Research & Educational Hospital, Rasht, 
Iran. He is Director of Urology Research Center, Guilan 
University of medical science since 2005.

 He has published more than 70 scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals. He 
is also the author of 1 chapter for Iranian Text Book of Urology and his 3 articles are cited in 
Campbell-Walsh Urology. He had written three books on urology in Persian: Practical urology, 
Urology Questions and Answers, Uroradiology.
He set up the PNL surgeries and Advanced Laparoscopy for the first time in Guilan Province, 
in Iran. In 2007, he performed the Complete Supine PCNL (csPCNL) for the first time in the 
world and in 2008, published a paper about this new method of PCNL surgery in Endourology 
Journal. Since then, he routinely performs the csPCNL for all his patients.
Falahatkar: “It is a great honor and privilege to cooperate and work with Urology Journal as a 
reviewer”.

Dr. Falahatkarbv was chosen by editorial board of The Urology Journal for his valuable and 
timely review of manuscript”.