Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., founding director of the Desai Sethi Urology Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was recently elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons (AAGUS), an organization of leading academic urologists dedicated to the study of diseases of the genitourinary system.
Many exceptional achievements throughout his career contributed to Dr. Parekh’s election to the AAGUS. He is the founding director of the Desai Sethi Urology Institute, one of a handful of free-standing urology institutes in the country adopting a multidisciplinary approach to advance clinical care, research and education for genitourinary diseases. He was also the 2013 recipient of the Gold Cystoscope Award from the American Urology Association.
As director of robotic surgery, Dr. Parekh has performed more than 5,000 robotic urologic procedures to treat prostate, kidney and bladder cancer. Through an NCI-funded RO1 grant, he was the principal investigator of the RAZOR clinical trial, the first randomized clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of the robotic approach in bladder cancer. The RAZOR trial’s results were published in high-impact medical journals including the Lancet and JAMA.
