THE UROLOGY RESIDENCY PROGRAM OF THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI. Overview

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1 THE UROLOGY RESIDENCY PROGRAM OF THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI 2014

2 THE UROLOGY RESIDENCY PROGRAM OF THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI Overview The Mount Sinai Urology Residency Program admits three residents each year through the American Urological Association (AUA) Match. The selected candidates complete one year of preliminary training in general surgery (in Mount Sinai s General Surgery Residency Program), before joining the four-year Urology Program in July of the following year. At the end of their five years at Mount Sinai, these residents emerge as well-rounded urologists, ready to embark upon careers in either private practice or academic medicine. In recent years, approximately 50% of the Program s graduates have gone on to fellowships and/or positions at academic centers. The curriculum is currently organized into the following rotations: Urology 1 Junior Resident, James J. Peters VA Medical Center four months Junior Resident, Elmhurst Hospital Center four months Junior Resident, Adult Service, The Mount Sinai Medical Center four months Urology 2 Resident, Elmhurst Hospital Center and Queens Hospital four months Resident, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center four months Resident, The Mount Sinai Medical Center four months Urology 3 Senior Resident, Adult Service, The Mount Sinai Medical Center four months Senior Resident, Pediatric Urology/Infertility The Mount Sinai Medical Center four months Chief Resident, Queens Hospital four months Urology 4 Chief Resident, James J. Peters VA Medical Center four months Chief Resident, The Mount Sinai Medical Center four months Chief Resident, Elmhurst Hospital Center four months 2

3 Core Faculty Mount Sinai s residents benefit from the instruction and supervision of both full-time and voluntary faculty at Mount Sinai and at the program s other affiliated institutions. The faculty includes the following physicians. Dr. Jeffrey Stock, Associate Professor of Urology and Pediatrics, is the Residency Program Director and Director of Pediatric Urology. He is a graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (when it was known as the Mount Sinai School of Medicine) and went on to do his residency at UMDNJ and his pediatric urology fellowship at the University of California at San Diego. He has developed minimally-invasive alternatives to open surgery in pediatric urology and is one of the most experienced urologists in the region in robot-assisted pediatric surgery. Dr. Stock has been active on Mount Sinai s Urology Education Committee since joining the Sinai faculty in 2006 and is currently also the Department s Vice Chairman for Career Development and Mentoring. Dr. Ashutosh Tewari is the Kyung Hyun Kim Chairman of the Department of Urology. An internationally known oncologist and robotic surgeon, Dr. Tewari comes to us from New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where he served as Director of the Lefrak Center for Robotic Surgery. Having received his medical degree and surgical residency training in India, he completed his urology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he was part of the team that performed the first robotic radical prostatectomy in the United States. He has completed transplant and urologic oncology fellowships at the University of Liverpool, the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Florida at Gainesville and back at Henry Ford Hospital. His expertise in the OR is coupled with a dedication to research. He is known for his contributions to outcomes research using novel medical imaging and to genomics research. He is a recipient of the AUA s Gold Cystoscope Award. Dr. Michael J. Droller, Goldsmith Professor of Urology, is a renowned urologic oncologist with a special interest in bladder cancer. He is also the Editor in Chief of Urologic Oncology, Seminars and Original Investigations and Associate Editor of the Journal of Urology. Dr. Droller earned his MD at Harvard Medical School and completed his urology residency at Stanford. He was Associate Professor of Urology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine before joining the staff of Mount Sinai in He served as Chairman of the Department of Urology for 19 years and as Program Director for 23. Dr. Mantu Gupta, Professor of Urology, is Director of Endourology and Stone Disease for the Mount Sinai health system and Chair of Urology at Mount Sinai St. Luke s-roosevelt Hospital. Recognized as a world leader in the research and treatment of urinary stone disease, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, urinary tract obstruction and upper tract urothelial malignancies, Dr. Gupta received his BS-MD in the Honors Program at Northwestern University 3

4 before going on to complete his urology residency at the University of California at San Francisco and a fellowship in endourology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He joined the Mount Sinai faculty this year, after serving for 18 years as the Director of Endourology and of the Kidney Stone Center at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Ketan Badani is Professor of Urology, Vice Chairman of Urology and Robotic Operations for the Mount Sinai Health System and Director of Robotic Surgery at Mount Sinai St. Luke s- Roosevelt Hospital. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dr. Badani went on to complete both his residency and a fellowship in minimally invasive urologic oncology at the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He comes to us from the Columbia University Medical Center where he has led the prostate and kidney cancer research program for the past seven years. Dr. Natan Bar-Chama is Associate Professor of Urology, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science. He leads the program on male infertility and sexual dysfunction. Dr. Bar- Chama is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He stayed on at Einstein for his urology residency and completed a fellowship in male reproductive health and surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Michael Palese, Associate Professor of Urology, is an endo-urologist and laparoscopist with expertise in complex stone disease, laparoscopy (including laparoscopic donor nephrectomy) and robotics. Dr. Palese earned his MD at Mount Sinai. His urology residency at the University of Maryland included a one-year urology research residency at the Johns Hopkins University. He went on to a laparoscopy fellowship at the Weill Cornell School of Medicine. Dr. Neil Grafstein, Assistant Professor of Urology, serves as Director of Reconstructive and Female Urology. He completed his MD at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, staying on for his urology residency before completing a fellowship in Reconstructive Urology at Duke University. He serves as the Department s Director of Performance Improvement and supervises the residents in Mount Sinai Incontinence Clinic. Dr. Courtney Phillips, Assistant Professor of Urology, is a urooncologist with a particular interest in minimally-invasive surgery. In addition to her service as Director of Urologic Oncology, she chairs the Residency Program s Clinical Competency Committee, supervises the residents in the GU ambulatory clinic at Mount Sinai and acts as Director of the Mount Sinai adult rotations. Dr. Phillips is a graduate of New Jersey Medical School. She completed a urology residency at NYU before going on to a fellowship in urology/oncology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Grace Hyun is an Assistant Professor of Urology and Pediatrics. She received her MD at Cornell University Medical College, completed her residency training at Columbia University and went on to a pediatric urology fellowship at Children s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. John Sfakianos, Assistant Professor of Urology, is a graduate of the School of Medicine at SUNY Buffalo. He completed his residency at SUNY Downstate and went on to the Urologic Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In addition to the cases he performs at Mount Sinai, Dr. Sfakianos instructs the residents in the urologic oncology clinic and 4

5 OR at Queens Hospital Center. He also oversees the residents participation in the Urology Tumor Board and plays a key role in providing them with the guidance and resources they need to successfully complete the research projects of their choosing. Dr. Reza Mehrazin, Assistant Professor of Urology, joined the faculty at Mount Sinai after completing a two-year Society of Urologic Oncology accredited fellowship at Fox Chase Cancer Center. He has extensive training and certification in performing minimally invasive organ preserving procedures for patients with kidney and bladder cancer. In addition to his teaching in the OR and on the wards, Dr. Mehrazin serves as a resource person and tutor in the resident research forums and supervises in GU Clinic at Mount Sinai. He took his medical degree at University of the Americas and completed his residency at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center before entering the fellowship at Fox Chase. Dr. Seema Sheth, Assistant Professor of Urology, is a general urologist whose broad interests include minimally invasive techniques and the treatment of both male and female voiding dysfunction. She teaches the residents in the OR, in the clinic and on the ward at the James J Peters VA Medical Center, participates in resident didactic conferences and serves as a resource and mentor in the resident research forums. Dr. Glen McWilliams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Urology, is Chief of Urology at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. He completed both his MD and his urology residency at Columbia University before going on to a urologic oncology fellowship with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Alfred Winkler, Clinical Assistant Professor of Urology, is Regional Director of Urology for the Queens Health Network of the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation. In that capacity, he overseas the residency program at Elmhurst Hospital Center and at Queens Hospital. Dr. Winkler earned his MD at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed his urology residency at Albert Einstein. 5

6 Affiliated Institutions The Mount Sinai Medical Center is a 1,181 bed tertiary-care hospital drawing patients from the surrounding communities, the entire nation, and many foreign countries. Since its founding in 1852, the Mount Sinai Hospital has had a tradition of excellence based on dedication to research and patient care. With the incorporation of the School of Medicine in 1963, the School and the Hospital became known as The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The Medical Center merged with the Continuum Health Network in 2014 to form the Mount Sinai Health System which now includes, in addition to the Medical Center, Mount Sinai St. Luke s-roosevelt Hospital on Manhattan s upper west side, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, both in downtown Manhattan, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Brooklyn, and Mount Sinai Queens. The Mount Sinai Urology Residency Program remains focused at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, with rotations at four non-system affiliates: Elmhurst Hospital Center, Queens Hospital Center, the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The Beth Israel Urology Residency Program still operates as a separate program, now also under the auspices of The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The two programs have contacted the ACGME to open discussions about a possible program merger. The Mount Sinai Medical Center would be the merged program s home institution. The staff of over 1,500 physicians at the Medical Center treats nearly 38,000 in-patients annually. The campus occupies a four-block area on Fifth Avenue across from Central Park between East 98 th and 102 nd Streets. It is centered around the Guggenheim Pavilion, a unique eleven story state-of-the-art facility designed by the architect I. M. Pei, and the Annenberg Building, which contains research laboratories, offices of instructional departments of the School of Medicine, and first and second year teaching facilities. The Annenberg Pavilion also contains the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, which serves the medical information needs of the Medical Center. In addition to the full-time faculty in urology, there are 24 voluntary faculty who practice urology at The Mount Sinai Hospital. As a result, residents have a broad exposure to every aspect of urology, including oncology, stone disease, female urology, neuro-urology, impotence and infertility, prostatic 6

7 diseases, and state-of-the-art endo-urologic and laparoscopic procedures during their rotations at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The Elmhurst Hospital Center is a 615 bed hospital that is part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. It is one of the borough s most comprehensive health care providers and serves as the main trauma center for the area. Located in a very diverse ethnic neighborhood in the northwest section of Queens, Elmhurst offers residents experience in treating a great variety of urological diseases, as well as the opportunity to interact with patients from around the world. Resident activity is supervised by Dr. Alfred Winkler, Assistant Professor of Urology, and by four attendings who are well versed in general and specialty Urology. Queens Hospital, a new 200-bed facility, serves as a Center of Excellence for Cancer Care for Health and Hospitals Corporation. Like Elmhurst, it is part of HHC s Queens Health Network, and the Urology Department is directed by Dr Alfred Winkler. The Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a 500 bed hospital offering general hospital services to Veterans from the Bronx, New York City, Long Island, Westchester, Rockland County and Eastern New Jersey. Patients from more distant points are referred for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). The VA Hospital has a complete range of services, with a wide range of urological pathology which focuses on stone disease, oncology, and BPH. There is also a 90 bed spinal injury unit which provides residents educational opportunities in the assessment and management of neuro-urologic problems, infections, and stone disease in these patients. Resident work is supervised by a team of urologists headed by Dr. Glen McWilliams, Assistant Professor of Urology. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the premier cancer hospital in the greater New York area, with a superb faculty and large volume of surgical activity in all aspects of urologic oncology. Under the leadership of Dr. Joel Sheinfeld, our residents proceed through an intensive exposure to urologic oncology in a 4-month rotation during their PGY 3 year. 7

8 Current Residents Karl Coutinho Greg Gin Vincent Olorunnisomo Urology 4 UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School Albany Medical College University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Fatima Husain Jorge Pereira Allison Polland Urology 3 Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Katherine Brewer Kathleen Kan Daniel Sagalovich Urology 2 University at Buffalo SUNY School of Med. & Biomedical Sci. Mount Sinai School of Medicine George Washington University School of Med. & Hlth. Sci. Jaime Cavallo Matthew Goland-Van Ryn John Griffith Urology 1 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine Drexel University College of Medicine Julio Chong Miriam Greenstein Jared Winoker Pre-Urology (PGY 1) Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine University of Louisville School of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University 8

9 Recent Program Graduates 2014 Michael Gildener-Leapman, MD Urologic Oncology Fellowship, University of California at San Francisco 2014 Joshua Gonzalez, MD Sexual Medicine Fellowship, University of California at San Diego 2104 Steven Weissbart, MD Urogynecology Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Health System 2013 Kadi-Ann Bryan, MD Private Practice, Oregon 2013 Matthew Hall, MD Private Practice, New Jersey 2013 Stephen Mock, MD Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2012 Ardavan Akhavan, MD Pediatric Urology Fellowship, Seattle Children s Hospital University of Washington School of Medicine, Currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Hospital 2012 Boback Berookhim, MD Male Sexual/Reproductive Medicine Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Currently on the faculty of Lenox Hill Hospital, New York 2012 Daryl McLeod, MD Pediatric Urology Fellowship, Nationwide Children s Hospital, Ohio State University School of Medicine 2011 Oluyemi Akin-Olugbade, MD Private Practice, West Virginia 9

10 2011 Clay Lyddane, MD Private Practice, Kansas 2011 Sherwin Zargaroff, MD Infertility Fellowship, Northwestern University School of Medicine, now in private practice in New York City 2010 Benjamin Dillon, MD Pelvic Floor Reconstruction and Incontinence Fellowship, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, now in private practice in Houston 2010 Daniel Simon, MD Private Practice, New Jersey 2010 Alexei Wedmid, MD Robotics Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Currently in private practice in Pennsylvania 2009 Antonio Otero, MD Oncology Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Currently on the staff of Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco 2009 Zamip Patel, MD Infertility Fellowship, University of Illinois Medical Center Currently on the faculty of Central Florida College Of Medicine 2009 Doron Stember, MD Sexual Health Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Currently on the faculty of Beth Israel Medical Center, New York 2008 Jimena Cubillos, MD Pediatric Urology Fellowship, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Currently on the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 2008 Matthew Stanizzi, MD Private Practice, New Hampshire 10