Arnon Krongrad, M.D., Prostate Cancer Surgeon, with Aventura Hospital and Medical Center has been appointed to founding Medical Advisor to the not-for-profit American Prostate Cancer Initiative.

The appointment by APCI recognizes Dr. Krongrad’s history of innovation. In 1996, Dr. Krongrad and colleagues published the first dietary cancer prevention trial with selenium. Dr. Krongrad has formed clinical care models that uniquely combined urology, radiation oncology, and psychiatry. In 1999, Dr. Krongrad and colleagues published a Technical Manual on a revolutionary form of prostate cancer surgery, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, which profoundly reduces pain and bleeding.