Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., professor and Chair of Urology and the Dr. Victor Politano Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology, is the 2013 recipient of the American Urological Association’s prestigious Gold Cystoscope Award.

 

Among the world’s most experienced robotic surgeons for urologic malignancies, Dr. Parekh received the award of excellence for establishing programs in urologic oncology and robotic surgery and for pursuing transformative research that promises to change clinical practice.

 

Dr. Parekh, who joined the Miller School faculty in 2012 after establishing the robotic program at the University of Texas San Antonio, said he was both “humbled and gratified” to be honored by his peers.

 

An expert in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of urologic cancer, including tumors of the kidney, bladder, prostate, testis and male genitalia, Dr. Parekh is also an active researcher and author of several scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters. The assistant editor for the preeminent Journal of Urology, he recently published a pivotal study about renal ischemia that holds the promise of transforming how urologists treat kidney cancer. The study refuted a key assumption about how long a diseased kidney could survive during surgery without blood supply.