Biography

Ash Tewari, M.D., M.Ch. is the Director of Robotic Prostatectomy and Prostate Cancer-Urologic Oncology Outcomes at Brady Urology Foundation of the Department of Urology and an Associate Professor of Urology; he is also an Associate Professor of Public Health and Outcomes in the Department of Public Health and Outcomes at The Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has recently been appointed as Ronald P. Lynch Associate professor of Urologic- oncology for his work on urologic-cancers and Robotic surgery. He is an Associate Attending at The New York Presbyterian Hospital. He directs a fellowship program in Robotic Prostatectomy and Prostate Cancer outcomes at Cornell. He is American Board of Urology Certified urologist with special interest in Urologic-Oncology, prostate cancer and robotic surgery.

Dr. Tewari is an internationally acclaimed expert on Robotic Prostatectomy and other minimally invasive robotic surgeries. His clinical interest involves urologic oncology with special emphasis on the care of patients with prostate, bladder and other urological cancers.He performs open, laparoscopic and robotic surgeries. While he has been involved in approximately 2000 robotic prostatectomies, at Cornell Institute of Robotic surgery he is performing ove 500 robotic prostatectomies every year. He has used a novel technique which was presented during ART symposium. His Athermal Robotic Technique of nerve sparing video has won first prize during 2006 American Urological Surgeons meeting in Atlanta. He is also involved in diagnosing prostate cancer by using PSA and modern ultrasound guided biopsy techniques. Using a multicenter dataset of 7000 patients with abnormal PSA, he and his collaborators have developed simple predictive models to calculate the risk of prostate cancer in men prior to biopsy.

Dr. Tewari did his urology residency from Vattikuti Institute of Urology. He did his research fellowship in Urologic oncology at the University of California San Francisco and at the University of Florida. He also did a clinical fellowship in Urologic-oncology at the Vattikuti Institute of Urology of Henry Ford Hospital in 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 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 centers 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 Annual meeting of the American Urological Association.

Dr. Tewari is listed in Who's Who in the World, New Yorks Best Doctors and his collaborative work with investigators from Henry Ford Hospital and University of Colarado on prostate cancer has won three first place AUA ACMI awards from the American Urological Association. He has participated in preparation of videos on robotic prostatectomy and robotic cystectomy (for bladder cancer), which were selected thrice as the Best Videos's by the American Urological Association (see CV). He has won several other awards by the AUA and other national and international foundations including the Joseph F. McCarthy/ACMI Physician Essay Contest, Recognition in Laparoscopic surgery, Gerald Murphy Scholar in Prostate Cancer, Montague Boyd essay award, Ambrose Reeds's socio-economic award for prostate cancer and the John Harrington Tanous award for distinguished research in cancer at the University of Florida. Dr. Tewari recieved his initial medical training from GSVM Medical College during which he won eighteen gold medals and honors and additional urology training from Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute in India under mentorship of Professor Mahendra Bhandari, MD, M.Ch..

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 in the Editoreal board for Urology and British journal of Urology and is the section editor for Robotic in BJU International. He is a reviewer for 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 cancer aggressiveness, 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 Board Certified in Urology and 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) 746-5643 or 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.