Ashutosh Tewari

Ashutosh Tewari
Dr. Ashutosh Tewari

Born India Kanpur, India
Nationality United States American
Institutions Weill Cornell Medical College
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Alma mater University of Florida
University of California, San Francisco
Known for Pioneering oncological research in the field of genitourinary robotic surgery and development of revolutionary techniques to maximize cancer control and recovery of urinary and sexual function

Ashutosh K. Tewari (born in Kanpur, India) is a board certified American urologist, oncologist, and clinical researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York City where he directs the Institute of Prostate Cancer and Robotic Surgery.[1] Tewari holds the Ronald P. Lynch endowed Chair of Urologic Oncology and is the hospital's Director of Robotic Prostatectomy, treating patients with prostate, urinary bladder and other urological cancers.[2] He is one of world's leading urological surgeons, and has been involved with over 3500 robotically assisted procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System.[3][4] Since joining Weill Cornell Medical College he has performed over 2500 robotic procedures. Academically, he is recognized as a world renowned expert on urologic oncology with over 250 peer reviewed published papers to his credit; he is on such lists as America's Top Doctors, New York Magazine's Best Doctors, and Who's Who in the World.[5]

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Robotic prostatectomy

With the introduction of the da Vinci Surgical System, the advent of robotic surgery using a laparoscopic approach has significantly changed the way prostate cancer surgery and prostatectomy procedures in general are performed as compared to the traditional 'open' methodology.[6][7] Much of Tewari's research projects serve to promote robotic surgery as opposed to open procedures. For example, Tewari has shown that the operating field has become more visible to the surgeon, unobscured by the copious amounts of blood encountered in traditional surgery and is thus able to view the urological structures under three-dimensional, enlarged magnification.[8] Patients reap even greater benefits.[9][10] Due to the minimally invasive nature of the procedure, they experience minimized pain, minimized blood loss, less scarring and fewer complications. Post-surgery recovery is accelerated and patients experience quicker return to urinary continence and sexual function.[11][12] Some of Tewari's current research is focused on comparing the benefits of robot-assisted surgery with traditional open prostatic surgery.

Career

Tewari is the Director of the Lefrak Institute of Robotic Surgery, Director of Prostate cancer, as well as the Director of Robotic Prostatectomy and Prostate Cancer-Urologic Oncology Outcomes at the Brady Urology Foundation of Weill Medical College.[13] He is a tenured Professor of Urology at Weill and, additionally, a Professor at the Department of Public Health and Outcomes.[14][15] In addition, Tewari directs a fellowship program in Robotic Prostatectomy and Prostate Cancer Outcomes that has conducted research comparing robotic surgery outcomes versus those of laparoscopic and open surgeries.[16] Tewari is an Attending physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital.[17]

Education

Receiving his medical education from Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM) in Uttar Pradesh, India, Tewari graduated with honors in 1984 with 17 gold academic medals to credit.[18] He received his training in urology from Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in India under the mentorship of Professor Mahendra Bhandari and completed the McH and DNB program in 1991.[19]

Training

Tewari has trained in the U.S. under Dr. Mani Menon, a pioneer of robotic prostatectomy and continues to collaborate with him in refining treatment outcomes. Tewari completed his urology residency at the Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI) of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in 2004. He received his urologic oncology research training at the University of California, San Francisco in 1994, the University of Florida in 1998, and VUI in 2004.

Research

Tewari's research interests revolve around the diagnosis and treatment of patients with urological cancers, with a focus on prostate cancer. His research ranges from the study of patient outcomes, robotic techniques, molecular markers for cancer aggressiveness, racial disparity in cancer biology, quality of life studies, strategies to improve nerve sparing and sexual function recovery, and anatomic studies to facilitate continence preservation to the development of next generation robotic techniques.[20] He has received several federal and non-federal research funding grants for his research on prostate cancer, totaling several million dollars in grant capital. He is one of the only urologists in the world to receive an NIH R01 Grant.[21][22] Additionally, he is among the first surgeons to use real time tissue imaging during surgery to minimize nerve damage in the patient and was the first surgeon in the world to use the catheter-less Prostate Surgery. The catheter-less surgery minimizes postoperative pain after prostatectomy[23]

Honors, awards, and prizes

A few of the medical conference and achievement awards earned by Tewari and his research team are:[24]

  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow honorary FRCS in 2010
  • The Clarke Medal for Surgical Innovation awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation Award- 2007
    da Vinci Surgical robot used by Tewari for minimally invasive prostatectomy procedures
  • American Urological Association Best Video Award for 2010, 2008 and 2006 [25]
  • First Place Video Award for Retro-Apical Technique of Robotic Prostate Cancer Surgery, Annual American
  • Urological Association (AUA) Meeting, San Francisco, California 2010
  • Syme Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2009
  • Cutlers’ Surgical Prize, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2009
  • BJU International Visiting Professor Award, University of Mainz, Germany, 2009
  • American Urological Association/Gyrus Prize Essay Contest (Clinical Research), Time tissue recognition of periprostatic tissue architecture and its relevance to nerve sparing radical prostatectomy: a pilot study using multiphoton microscopy and second harmonic generation, 2009
  • Best Scientific Paper (Urology) Award, Society of Laporoendoscopic Surgeons, Orlando, Florida, 2008
  • Grand Prize, International College of Surgeons Research Essay Award, 2008
  • Best Basic Science Research Abstract Award, Sexual Medicine Society of North America Annual Meeting, 2008
  • Best Research Abstract, American Urological Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 2008
  • First Prize Winner, Anatomic foundations for nerve sparing robotic prostatectomy: Correlations between anatomic, surgical and “real time tissue recognition” with multiphoton microscopy, American Urological Society-AUA-ACMI Clinical Research, Orlando, Florida, 2008
  • Clinical Research- Second Place Award, Surgical technique overcoming anatomic shortcoming: Balancing post prostatectomy continence outcomes of sphincteric urethral lengths on preoperative MRI, American Urological Society-AUA-ACMI Clinical Research, Orlando, Florida, 2008
  • First Prize - Best Video Presentation, Grades of nerve sparing, AUA, Orlando, Florida, 2008
  • Best Video and Best Poster Award, First and Second Prizes ACMI Gyrus Research Essay Awards, AUA Annual Meeting, 2008
  • Best Video (Urology) Award, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2008
  • Second Prize, Endourology Society Essay Award, 2008
  • Astellas/AUA Best Poster Award for Impotence Research, AUA, 2008
  • America’s Best Doctors and New York’s Best Doctors, 2007 and 2008
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation Award, Real time tissue recognition to identify nerves and prostate cancer cells- Utility as an intraoperative tool during robotic prostatectomy, Lake Tahoe, 2007
  • G. M. Phadke Memorial Oration, Current state of prostate cancer treatment, Urology Society of India, 2007
  • World Congress of Endourology Essay Second Prize Pelvic neuroanatomy- foundations for nerve sparing prostatectomy, Cancun, 2007
  • First Place in Surgical Video, Athermal technique of nerve sparing prostatectomy, AUA, 2005
  • First Prize Winner-AUA-ACMI-Ambrose Reeds Prize, Cost Effective Essay Contest, Racial disparities in prostate cancer outcomes- Impact of socioeconomic factors, 2005
  • First Prize Winner- AUA-ACMI Prize, Survival modeling tables in the management of prostate cancer: A propensity risk method, AUA, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
  • First Prize AUA-ACMI-Ambrose Reeds Cost Effective Essay Contest, Factor affecting differences in survival in African American and Caucasian races, AUA, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
  • Second Prize Best Surgical Video, Technique of nerve sparing robotic prostatectomy, AUA, 2003
  • First Place Joseph F. McCarthy/ACMI Physician Essay Contest, Predicting the outcome of prostate biopsy in a racially diverse population, 78th Western Section AUA, Kauai, Hawaii, 2002
  • First Prize-Traveling Fellowship NCS-AUA: Impact of robotics on surgical Skill. North Central Section American Urological Association, Chicago, 2002
  • First Prize Clinical Paper, Role of surgery in high-grade cancer prostate, Michigan Urological Society, 2002
  • Recognition in Laparoscopic Surgery Resident Achievement Award, Society of Laparoscopic Urology. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002
  • Gerald Murphy Scholar in Prostate Cancer, AUA, Orlando, Florida, 2002
  • Third Prize, Utility of predictive modeling tables in patients following radical prostatectomy, Michigan Research Forum, 2002
  • Golden Glove Membership, L’ Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France, 2002
  • Who’s Who in World, Millennium Edition, 2000
  • Pfizer Scholar Award, 1999
  • Second Prize Montague Boyd Essay Contest, Cost effective staging algorithm for prostate cancer: a novel approach using genetic adaptive neural networks, South Eastern Section AUA, 1997
  • First Prize John Harrington Tanous Award for Distinguished Research in Cancer, Post radical prostatectomy sling procedure: clinical-anatomical study, 1997
  • Best Scientific Presentation, University of Florida Research Day, 1996
  • Distinction in Physiology, Pathology and Social & Preventive Medicine Award, 1984
  • Five Gold Medal Awards for securing highest marks in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ophthalmology, and Surgery, 1983
  • Physiology Society Gold Medal and Pathology Society Silver Medal, 1983
  • Dr. B.N. Gold Medal and a Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.D. and all examinations, 1983
  • Best Overall Graduate of the Year, 1982
  • Chancellor’s Gold Medal for securing first position in final professional M.D. examination, 1982
  • Five Gold Medals for highest marks in Physiology, Forensic Medicine, Pathology, Social/Preventive Medicine, 1981
  • S.P.M. Society Silver Medal for securing distinction in Social and Preventive Medicine, 1981
  • Three Gold Medals for highest marks in first professional M.D. exam, Physiology, and in E.N.T., 1980
  • Physiology Society Silver Medal, distinction in Physiology, 1980
  • AUA Best Clinical Essay award for 2008
  • World Congress of Endourology Prize Essay- 2007
  • Gerald Murphy Scholar in Prostate Cancer. AUA, Orlando, FL 2002
  • Golden Glove Membership for being proctor in laparoscopic prostatectomy at L' Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France 2002
  • Pfizer Scholar Award, 1999

Professional activities

Tewari serves as a reviewer for a number of prestigious professional journals including the Journal of Urology, British Journal of Urology, Contemporary Urology, Medscape, Post Graduate Medicine, and Oncology Operational. He is the associate editor for BJU International. Tewari has served as a visiting professor and lecturer at dozens of venues both in the United States and abroad.[26][27] Recently, Tewari spoke at the Annual International Prostate & Robotics Symposium in the United Arab Emirates and the Ohio State World Symposium of Robotic Surgery.[28] He is also previously been on faculty of the International Robotic Urology Symposium.[29]

Society memberships

In addition to directing his robotic prostatectomy program at Weill Cornell, Tewari is a member of several professional societies including: American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, American Urological Association, NYS Medical Advisory Board, International Society of Quality of Life Research, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Society of Minimally Invasive Therapy, Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), Indian Association of Urological Surgeons and Michigan Prostate Cancer Consortium.

Publications

Books

In collaboration with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine urologist, Joseph A. Smith, Jr., Tewari co-authored Robotics in Urologic Surgery. Smith, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology at Vanderbilt, worked with Tewari to publish a textbook that explains the foundation of robotic surgery and its role in urological operations.[30]

Research papers

Tewari has published articles, book chapters and invited articles on various aspects of urologic cancer, urology and robotics. He has authored and co-authored over 250 published manuscripts, research abstracts, and book chapters. A selection of Tewari's publications includes:[31][32]

  • Tewari, A; Patel, ND; Leung, RA; Yadav, R; Vaughan, ED; El-Douaihy, Y; Tu, JJ; Amin, MB et al. (2010). "Visual cues as a surrogate for tactile feedback during robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: posterolateral margin rates in 1340 consecutive patients". BJUI 106 (4): 528–36. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.09176.x. PMID 20192955. 
  • Tewari, A; Gamito, EJ; Crawford, ED; Menon, M (2004). "Biochemical recurrence and survival prediction models for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer". Clinical prostate cancer 2 (4): 220–7. PMID 15072605. 
  • Menon, M; Hemal, AK; Tewari, A; Shrivastava, A; Bhandari, A (2004). "The technique of apical dissection of the prostate and urethrovesical anastomosis in robotic radical prostatectomy". BJU international 93 (6): 715–9. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2003.04748.x. PMID 15049978. 
  • Sarle, R; Tewari, A; Shrivastava, A; Peabody, J; Menon, M (2004). "Surgical robotics and laparoscopic training drills". Journal of endourology / Endourological Society 18 (1): 63–6; discussion 66–7. doi:10.1089/089277904322836703. PMID 15006057. 
  • Tewari, A; Menon, M (2003). "Vattikuti Institute prostatectomy: surgical technique and current results". Current urology reports 4 (2): 119–23. doi:10.1007/s11934-003-0038-7. PMID 12648428. 
  • Tewari, A; Peabody, JO; Fischer, M; Sarle, R; Vallancien, G; Delmas, V; Hassan, M; Bansal, A et al. (2003). "An operative and anatomic study to help in nerve sparing during laparoscopic and robotic radical prostatectomy". European urology 43 (5): 444–54. doi:10.1016/S0302-2838(03)00093-9. PMID 12705985. 
  • Menon, M; Tewari, A; Peabody, J; Vip, Team (2003). "Vattikuti Institute prostatectomy: technique". The Journal of urology 169 (6): 2289–92. doi:10.1097/01.ju.0000067464.53313.dd. PMID 12771773. 
  • Tewari, A; Peabody, J; Sarle, R; Balakrishnan, G; Hemal, A; Shrivastava, A; Menon, M (2002). "Technique of da Vinci robot-assisted anatomic radical prostatectomy". Urology 60 (4): 569–72. doi:10.1016/S0090-4295(02)01852-6. PMID 12385908. 

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