Chair, Department of Urology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Ashutosh Tewari is a Professor and the System Chair of the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, an integral component of the Mount Sinai Health System, which includes seven New York Hospitals. In addition, he is the Director of the Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer at the Tisch Cancer Institute, Director of The Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Center for Prostate Health, and Director of the Robert F. Smith Prostate Cancer Disparity Program. He also serves as a Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute of Immunology member at Mount Sinai. Dr. Tewari began his two-year term as President of the Society for Urologic Robotic Surgeons in August 2020.
Since 2013, the Department of Urology has undergone significant expansion under the leadership and vision of Dr. Tewari. Today, it provides state-of-the-art services for diagnosing, treating, preventing, and managing a wide variety of urologic conditions, including genitourinary cancers.
Dr. Tewari has been a pioneer in Robotic Surgery and has been involved in developing Robotic Prostatectomy from its inception. He has made a significant impact on the anatomical foundations as they apply to Robotic platforms and has performed over 7,500 robotic prostatectomies in his career. Dr. Tewari has also made seminal contributions to prostate cancer research and has several research grants. Dr. Tewari is one of only a few robotic surgeons to be awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD), including an R01 grant for which he serves as the Principal Investigator, researching the utility of multiphoton microscopy during prostate cancer treatment. In addition, he is a clinician-scientist who has incorporated the use of molecular diagnostic tools like Oncotype Dx, Decipher, Prolaris, Precision medicine, Sema-4, and Foundation One for risk stratification and decision support.
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