Meet The Speakers

Ashok Hemal

MD, MCh, FACS, FRCS

Professor of Urology Institute for Regenerative Medicine Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Salem, NC 

Rajesh Ahlawat

MCh, MNAMS, MS, MBBS

Group Chairman, Department of Urology

Medanta the Medicity

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Mutahar Ahmed

MD

Professor of Urology, HMSOM, Director of the Center for Bladder Cancer, Robotic Oncology Urological Fellowship NJU/HUMC

Hashim Ahmed

MD

Chair of Urology and Head of the Section of Specialty Surgery at Imperial College London

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Simone Albisinni

(Prof), MD, PhD, FEBU

Assistant Professor in Urology 

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Rome, Italy

Antonio Alcaraz Asensio

MD, PhD

Chairman Department of Urology

Hospital Clinic - University of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Kyrollis Attalla

MD

Assistant Professor of Urology

Mount Sinai Union Square

New York, NY

Ketan K. Badani

MD, FRCS (HON.)

Chief of Surgical Innovation and Strategy,
Director of Robotic Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System

Nina Bhardwaj

MD, PhD

Director of Cancer Immunotherapy, Professor of Medicine, Ward-Coleman Chair, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Aldo Brassetti,

MD

Urologist at IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Regina Elena Tumor Institute and San Gallicano Dermatological Institute

Wayne G. Brisbane

MD

 Assistant Professor of Urology

UCLA School of Medicine

Los Angeles, CA

Arthur Burnett

MD

Professor of urology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Director of the Male Consultation Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Goutam Chakraborty

PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Urology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Carlos Cordon-Cardo

MD, PhD

Irene Heinz Given and John LaPorte Given Professor and Chairman for the Mount Sinai Health System Department of Pathology

Simone Crivellaro

MD, MHA

Vice Chairman, Lawrence Ross Urology Professor

University of

Illinois, Chicago

Christina M. Dieli-Conwright

PhD, MPH

Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Angelo M. De Marzo

MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Oncology

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD 

Navneet Dogra

PhD

Assistant Professor

Icahn School of Medicine

at Mount Sinai

Tibet Erdogru (Prof)

MD

Endourology Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery

Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital

Istanbul, Turkey

Ugo Falagario

MD

Assistant Professor

University of Foggia, Karolinska Institute

Solna, Sweden

Munir Ghesani

MD, FACNM, FACR, FSNMMI

Associate Professor of Radiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Michael Gorin

MD

Associate Professor

Icahn School of Medicine

at Mount Sinai

Benjamin Hopkins

PhD

Assistant Professor

Weill Cornell Medicine 

Larchmont, NY   

Christina Jamieson

PhD

Associate Professor of Urology

Moores Cancer Center

University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CA

Isaac Yi Kim

MD, PhD, MBA

Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology 

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

Laurence Klotz

CM, MD, FRCSC

Professor, Department of Surgery

University of Toronto 

Toronto, ON, Canada

Natasha Kyprianou

MBBS, PhD

Vice Chair of Basic Science Research

Department of Urology

at Mount Sinai Health System

Constantino Leonardo

MD, PhD

Consultant Urologist

Regina Elna Cancer Institute

Rome, Italy

Bobby Liaw

MD

Clinical Director of

Genitourinary Oncology

for the Mount Sinai Health System

Jonathan Mamou

PhD

Professor of Electrical Engineering in Radiology 

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY 

Alberto Martini

MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Urology 

University of Cincinnati

Reza Mehrazin

MD

Professor, Urologic Oncologist 

Department of Urology

at Mount Sinai

Mani Menon

MD

Professor, Chief of Strategy and Innovation

Icahn School of Medicine

at Mount Sinai

Ankur Mittal

MBBS, MS, MCh 

Professor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh

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Santoshi Nagaonkar

MBBS, MS, DNB (Surgery), DNB (Urology), FEBU, FRACS

Director Urology, Urological Oncology & Robotic Surgery 

Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital

Vivek Natarjan

MS

Research Lead at Google

San Francisco, CA   

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William K. Oh

MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Mount Sinai Health System, Tisch Cancer Institute

New York, NY 

Michael A. Palese

MD

Chair, Department of Urology, Mount Sinai Downtown- Union Square and  Professor of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Vito Pansadoro (Prof)

MD

President of the Vincenzo Pansadoro Foundation for Uro-Oncology Research 

Rome, Italy 

Rocco Papalia

MD

Full Professor of Urology

Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome

Rome, Italy  

Adriana Pedraza

MD

Urologist

Roberto Pili

MD

Chief Division of Hematology/Oncology - Department of Medicine 

University of Buffalo, NY

Francesco Porpiglia

MD

Chair, Urology Division

San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital

University of Turin 

Koon Ho Rha

MD, PhD

Professor of Urology and Robotic and

Minimally Invasive Surgery

at Yonsei University Medical School

Jay D. Raman

MD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology

at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey

Medical Center

Art Rastinehad

DO

System Director of Prostate Cancer and Vice Chairman of Lenox Hill Urology.

at Northwell Health

Craig G. Rogers

MD

Chair, Department of Urology, Vattikuti Urology Institute Henry Ford Hospital; Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

Cristobal Roman

MD

Urologist

Gregg L. Semenza

MD, PhD

C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Cell Engineering and Genetic Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Giuseppe Simone

MD, PhD

Chief of Urology

IRCCS “Regina Elena” National Cancer Institute

Rome, Italy

Susan F. Slovin

 MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, NY

Prasanna Sooriakumaran

MA(Oxon) BMedSci(Hons) BMBS(Hons)  FRCS(Urol)

Professor of Urology

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine,

USA

Rene Javier Sotelo Noguera

MD

Professor of Clinical Urology at USC Institute of Urology USC Institute of Urology

La Canada, CA

Cora N. Sternberg

MD, FACP

Clinical Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY

Michael Stifelman

MD

Chair of Urology at Hackensack University Medical Center, Director of Robotic Surgery Professor at Hackensack Meridian Health

Bachir Taouli

MD, MHA

Professor of Radiology

Mount Sinai - Department of Radiology 

New York, NY 

Leon Telis

MD

Assistant Professor of Urology
Director, Men's Health Program

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ash Tewari

MBBS, MCH, FRCS (HON.)

Professor and System Chair, Milton and Carroll Petrie
Department of Urology at Mount Sinai Health System
Chair of Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital

Neeraja Tillu

MD

Uro-Oncology Fellow

Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Alfonso Urbanucci

PhD

Group Leader 

Tampere University

Helsinki, Finland

Nikhil Vasdev

MBBS, MRCS, DSc, MCh (Urol), FRCS (Urol)

Professor and Chair of Robotic Surgery, School of Life and Medical Science, University of Hertfordshire

and Bedforshire Urological Centre Hospital

Sarah Wragge

Nutricionist

SWW® Founder

Nutrition Expert

Health Strategist

Alexander Wyatt

DPhil (Phd)

Associate Professor, Vancouver Prostate Centre Scientist, Michael Smith Genome

Sciences Centre

Lee Zhao

MD

Professor of Urology and Oncological Sciences, Vice Chair for Basic Science Research, Urology

NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

Ming Zhou

MD, PhD

Vice Chair, Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-based Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Riccardo Giuseppe Bertolo

MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Urology at the University

of Verona, Borgo

Trento Hospital in Italy

Dimple Chakravarty

PhD

Assistant Professor of Urology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Murilo de Almeida Luz

MD

Urologic Oncologist

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Gary E. Deng

MD, PhD

Director of Integrative Oncology for the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute

Zachary Dovey

MBBS

Assistant Professor

Icahn School of Medicine 

at Mount Sinai

Sujit S. Nair

PhD

Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of GU Immunotherapy Research Department of Urology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Apoorva Tewari

MD

Assistant Professor

The Ohio State University Wexner

Medical Center

Peter Wiklund

MD, PhD

Professor of Urology
Director of the Bladder Cancer Program

at Mount Sinai

Mirabela Rusu

PhD

Assistant Professor, in the Department of Radiology, and, by courtesy, Department of Urology and Biomedical Data Science, at Stanford University