• APSI : Association of Plastic Surgeons of India
• DAPS : Deccan Association of Plastic Surgeons
• BAI : Burns Association of India
• ISSH : Indian Society For Surgery of the Hand

• ACP: American College Of  Phlebology

• Glaxo Award for original research work in Plastic Surgery
• Kolhapur Bhushan Award (Best Citizen Award) for pioneering Plastic Surgical Service in this part of the country.

• Past President Kolhapur Medical Association
• Trustee ‘Pant Amatya Bal Vikas Vishwasth Nidhi’

Invention:

SEPA Superficial External Pudendal Artery skin flap.  Anatomy of this arterio-venous axis was studied in cadavers and by extrapolating the findings clinically a New Skin Flap was added to the armamentarium of Plastic Surgery.
Co-author: Chapter on Recent Advances in Hand Surgery.
                    Aspen Medical Systems, Maryland, U.S.A.

Scientific Papers:

• 'Oral Pigmentation’
  Published in Aestheticians’ Journal
• Overview of Lasers. Paatil UA, Dhami LD.
  Five Publications in British Journal of Plastic Surgery.
• The uses of the SEPA flap in the repair of defects in the hands and fingers.
  Dias AD, Thatte RL, Paatil UA, Dhami LD, Prasad S.
• The anatomical basis of the SEPA flap.
  Paatil UA, Dias AD, Thatte RL.
• The combined use of the superficial external pudendal artery flap with a flap of the anterior rectus sheath for the simultaneous cover of dorsal and volar defects on the hand.
  Thatte RL, Paatil UA, Dhami LD.
• A manoeuvre to cover exposed metal using a de-epithelialised "turn-over" fasciocutaneous flap.
  Thatte RL, Patil DL, Paatil UA, Prasad S.
• De-epithelialised turn-over flaps for "salvage" operations.
  Thatte RL, Dhami LD, Paatil UA.