Ash Tewari, M.D., M.Ch. serves as Director of the Prostate Cancer Institute and LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. In addition, he is the Ronald P. Lynch Professor of Urologic-Oncology, a tenured professor of Urology and tenured professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. He directs the Program in Robotic Prostatectomy and Urologic Oncology Outcomes.

Dr. Tewari is an internationally acclaimed expert on Robotic Prostatectomy and other minimally invasive robotic surgeries. He has performed over 2,500 robotic radical prostatectomies since joining Cornell. His clinical interest involves urologic oncology and care of patients with prostate, bladder and other urological cancers. He performs open, laparoscopic and robotic surgeries. He is also involved in diagnosing prostate cancer by using PSA and modern ultra sound guided biopsy techniques. Using a dataset of 7000 patients with abnormal PSA, he has developed simple predictive models to calculate the risk of prostate cancer.

Dr. Tewari received his Urologic Oncology training at University of California San Francisco, University of Florida and Vattikuti Institute of Urology. He has done his urology residency at Vattikuti Institute of Urology, Detroit Michigan. He was trained by Mani Menon, MD who pioneered the field of robotic urology and developed the VIP technique of Robotic Prostatectomy. Dr. Tewari has been intimately involved with over 800 robotic cases including Robotic Prostatectomy, Cystectomies, and other Urologic-Oncological procedures. Dr. Tewari has co-authored multiple publications including several key papers on Robotic prostatectomy and prostate cancer outcomes. He has traveled widely to various US and an international center as a visiting professor, gives talks on prostate cancer, and demonstrates robotic surgery. His expertise in Robotic prostatectomy has been recognized internationally and he has been invited to give instructional courses on robotics during the American Urological Association meetings.

Dr. Tewari is listed in Who?s Who in the World and his collaborative work with other investigators on prostate cancer has won two major AUA ACMI first place awards in 2003 from the American Urological Association. He has participated in preparation of videos on robotic prostatectomy and robotic cystectomy (for bladder cancer), which have been selected as the ?Best Videos? by the American Urological Association (see CV). He has won several other awards by the AUA and other national and international foundations including ?Joseph F. McCarthy/ACMI Physician Essay Contest?, ?Recognition in Laparoscopic surgery?, ?Gerald Murphy Scholar? in Prostate Cancer, ?Montague Boyd? essay award, ?Ambrose Reeds? cost effective award and ?John Harrington Tanous? award for distinguished research in cancer in University of Florida. Dr. Tewari did his pre USA medical training from GSVM Medical College during which he won eighteen gold medals and honors. He is also board certified in General Surgery from GSVM Medical College and board certified in Urology from Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute in India.

Dr. Tewari is the member of several professional societies including American Urological Association, Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons, Michigan Prostate Cancer Consortium, Society of Minimally Invasive Therapy and International Society of Quality of Life Research. He is a reviewer of Journal of Urology, British Journal of Urology and Urology.

Dr. Tewari?s main research interests are in the field of prostate cancer, outcomes, robotics, molecular markers for aggression, racial disparity in cancer biology, quality of life studies, strategies to improve nerve sparing and sexual function recovery, anatomic studies to facilitate continence preservation and development of next generation robotic techniques. He has published several articles, book chapters and invited articles on various aspects of urologic cancer, urology and robotics. He has received federal and non federal grants for his research on prostate cancer.

Dr. Tewari is married to Mamta Tewari, and is a father of two children, Apoorva and Akash. He is a cricketer, hiker and enjoys nature and photography.

He is currently licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York. To contact Dr. Tewari, an appointment can be made by calling his office at (212) 746-5638. He can be contacted by mail at Starr 900, Department of Urology, The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021 or by email at Robotic-Coordinator@Theehealth.com or by fax at (212) 212 746 8396 or through the web site- http://www.cornellurology.com/roboticprostatectomy/.