Krishna Bhatta

Krishna Bhatta, MD, FRCS (born 1 June 1948) is an American urologist, author, and inventor. Dr. Bhatta specializes in robotic uro-oncologic surgeries, male reproductive medicine, urologic care, and calculi. He is affiliated with several medical facilities, including Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, St. Joseph Hospital, and Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital. Dr. Bhatta is currently working as chief of urology at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine.
Dr. Bhatta is also an expert in the study of intermittent silence, mediation, and Gita and has created Relaxx, an application that serves as a portable guru for finding peace and happiness. He has authored several publications and patents along with his book Journey from Life to Life: Achieving Higher Purpose, which aims at bridging the gap between the western and eastern philosophy by answering spiritual questions with a practical bent of mind.
== Early life and education ==
Dr. Bhatta was born in an Indian village, Balbandh, near Ara, Bihar to Paramhans Ray who was a professor, and Sharda Devi.
Dr. Bhatta pursued his MS and MBBS degree at Patna Medical College and graduated in 1971. He then shifted to the United Kingdom to complete further education and training. Dr. Bhatta did research and medical training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after that.
 
== Career ==
Dr. Bhatta has been a medical practitioner for over twenty years. He is associated with several medical facilities including Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, St. Joseph Hospital, and Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital.
During his career, Dr.Bhatta developed a fascination with spiritual studies. He worked to study the high rate of burnout in the physician community. To address this issue, Dr. Bhatta leveraged spiritual studies to understand human consciousness and find a solution to prevent burnout and accelerate the human mind and body function.
Dr. Bhatta currently serves as the chief of urology at the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center.
Dr. Bhatta, with his research, developed an advanced meditation application called Relaxx, which leverages intermittent silence and meditation to help the users achieve peace, happiness, tranquility, and relaxation by reducing stress and burnout. The purpose of creating such an application was to bring Eastern spiritual values and its essential elements to the Western world. This application contains a variety of guided and unguided meditation practice modules that aim at creating an individualized experience by rejuvenating the mind, body, and the flame (of consciousness).
Dr. Bhatta is the author of two books, Gita Today and Journey from Life to Life: Achieving Higher Purpose. Gita Today was published in 2011, which is based on the Indian holy scripture Gita, which brings forth the ideology of success from a newer perspective. The journey from Journey from Life to Life: Achieving Higher Purpose was released in 2019, which aims at bridging the gap between the western and eastern philosophy by answering spiritual questions with a practical bent of mind.
== Patents ==
* 1991: Electrohydraulic lithotripsy, US patent US5152768A - FDA approved device used for lithotripsy of urinary stones
* 1992: Coagulating scalpel, US patent WO1992006641A1 - cutting and coagulating scalpel
* 1993: Unique cleaning catheter, US patent US5375589A -To assist fiber optic surgical device
* 1993: Impact lithotripsy, US patent US5246447A - For treating urinary and biliary stones and atherosclerotic plaque in the human body
== Certifications and licences ==
* ME State Medical License (2022)
* MA State Medical License (2013)
== Publications ==
* Journey from Life to Life: Achieving Higher Purpose, published in 2019
* Gita Today, published in 2011
* The laser-assisted scalpel: initial clinical evaluation of its use in gynecologic endoscopy (Isaacson, K., Bhatta, K. M.)
* Clinical experience with high power (140 mj.), large fiber (320 micron) pulsed dye laser lithotripsy (Dretler, S. P., Bhatta, K. M.)
* New laser delivery device for laparoscopic procedures (Bhatta, K. M., Rattner, D. W., Haw, T. E., Nishioka, N. S.)
* Conversion of the electrohydraulic electrode to an electromechanical stone impactor: basic studies and a case report (Dretler, S. P., Bhatta, K. M., Rosen, D.)
* Effects of shielded or unshielded laser and electrohydraulic lithotripsy on rabbit bladder (Bhatta, K. M., Rosen, D. I., Flotte, T. J., Dretler, S. P., Nishioka, N. S.)
* Acoustic and plasma-guided laser angioplasty (Bhatta, K. M., Rosen, D. I., Dretler, S. P.)
* Acoustic and plasma guided lasertripsy (APGL) of urinary calculi (Bhatta, K. M., Rosen, D., Watson, G. M., Dretler, S. P.)
* Effect of pulse duration on microsecond-domain laser lithotripsy (Bhatta, K. M., Nishioka, N. S.)
* Plasma shield lasertripsy: in vitro studies (Bhatta, K. M., Rosen, D. I., Dretler, S. P.)
* Cystine calculi--rough and smooth: a new clinical distinction (Bhatta, K. M., Prien, E. L., Dretler, S. P.)
* Lasers in urology (Bhatta, K. M.)
* Comparative study of different laser systems (Bhatta, N., Isaacson, K., Bhatta, K. M., Anderson, R. R., Schiff, I.)
* Intraprostatic bridge as complication of transurethral resection of prostate: case reports (Bhatta, K. M.)
* A demand side estimate of the dollar value of the cannabis black market in New Zealand (Wilkins, C., Bhatta, K., Casswell, S.)
* The effectiveness of cannabis crop eradication operations in New Zealand (Wilkins, C., Bhatta, K., Casswell, S.)
* The emergence of amphetamine use in New Zealand: findings from the 1998 and 2001 National Drug Surveys (Wilkins, C., Bhatta, K., Casswell, S.)
* Ecstasy use in New Zealand: findings from the 1998 and 2001 National Drug Surveys (Wilkins, C., Bhatta, K., Pledger, M., Casswell, S.)
* Patterns of amphetamine use in New Zealand: findings from the 2001 National Drug Survey (Wilkins, C., Pledger, M., Bhatta, K., Casswell, S.)
== Personal Life ==
Dr. Bhatta was born in an Indian village Balbandh near Ara, Bihar. His father, Dr. Paramhans Ray was a professor and principal at a reputed college in their hometown. His mother was a housewife. 
Dr. Bhatta married Nayantara Bhatta who is also a doctor, an Ob-Gyn. They have two children, Nivedita and Amit, who are both doctors as well. Dr. Bhatta’s daughter is a urologist at Wayne State University in Detroit and his son Amit is a Gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.
== In the media ==
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== References ==
== External link == 
* Official website
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