MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., professor and Chair of Urology and the Dr. Victor Politano Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is the 2013 recipient of the American Urological Association’s prestigious Gold Cystoscope Award. Presented at the association’s annual meeting in San Diego May 8, the award recognizes urologists who have made outstanding contributions to the profession within 13 years of completing their residency training.
Among the world’s most experienced robotic surgeons for urologic malignancies, 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.
“This award underscores not only Dr. Parekh’s very impressive credentials and equally impressive experience, but his unwavering commitment to devising and delivering the highest quality care,” said Miller School Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D.
“Everyone who has worked with Dr. Parekh recognizes that he is a world-class urologist and robotic cancer surgeon, but to receive this honor from his peers in the AUA makes it known to the world,” said Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., Director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, where Parekh is a member.
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, Parekh is also an active researcher and author of several scientific papers and abstracts. 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.
The study Parekh led showed that blood vessels to the kidney could be clamped safely for up to an hour, giving surgeons enough time to save a portion of the organ through nephron-sparing surgery.
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