Early Years and Urological Career
A native of Kerala, India, he joined the newly established Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry, India. After graduating in 1969, he completed his residency at the Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Working with the institute’s chairman, Dr. Patrick Walsh, Menon developed a novel technique to measure androgen receptors in the human prostate. At the age of 34, Menon became the chairman of the Urology department at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dr. Menon has published more than 300 papers, 400 poster presentations, 90 book chapters and invited articles mostly in the field of robotic prostatectomy, renal transplantation and urolithiasis. He has been an invited lecturer and guest professor over 70 times at institutions all over the world. His work of research has been published in many urological journals such as the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the American Journal of Physiology, Proceedings of the National Academy, the New England Journal of Medicine and many more.
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