Dr. Kara L. Watts, Associate Professor of Urology, joined the urology faculty at Montefiore in 2016. She completed a fellowship in Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare and an extended observership in focal ablation for prostate cancer in the UK. She serves as the Director of Quality Assurance and Improvement for the Department of Urology and leads the prostate cancer screening program. Dr. Watts is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. Her top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Kidney Stones, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Vasectomy, and Ureteroscopy.

Charles Drake is an Oncologist and a Hematologist Oncology provider in New York, New York. Dr. Drake is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Bladder Cancer, Nephrectomy, and Prostatectomy.

Ardeshir Rastinehad is a Urologist and an Interventional Radiologist in New York, New York. Dr. Rastinehad is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Enlarged Prostate (BPH), Familial Prostate Cancer, Prostatic Artery Embolization, and Prostatectomy.

Louis Potters is a Radiation Oncologist in New York, New York. Dr. Potters is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Metastatic Brain Tumor, and Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET).

Samir Taneja is a Urologist in Lake Success, New York. Dr. Taneja is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Familial Prostate Cancer, Prostatectomy, and Nephrectomy.

Steven Brandes is a Urologist in Bronxville, New York. Dr. Brandes is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Urethral Stricture, Hypospadias, Neurogenic Bladder, Reconstructive Urology Surgery, and Ureteral Reconstruction.

Mark Stein is an Oncologist and a Hematologist in New York, New York. Dr. Stein is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Familial Prostate Cancer, Prostatectomy, and Nephrectomy.

James Mckiernan is a Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Mckiernan is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Bladder Cancer, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Urothelial Cancer, Cystectomy, and Nephrectomy.

Marc Janis is a Urologist in Mount Vernon, New York. Dr. Janis is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Eunuchoidism Familial Hypogonadotropic, Male Pseudohermaphroditism with Gynecomastia, Testicular Failure, Ureteroscopy, and Prostatic Artery Embolization.

Thomas Rechtschaffen is a Urologist in Yonkers, New York. Dr. Rechtschaffen is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Interstitial Cystitis, Enlarged Prostate (BPH), UPJ Obstruction, Ureteroscopy, and Prostatectomy.

Stephen Trauzzi is a Urologist in New Rochelle, New York. Dr. Trauzzi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Enlarged Prostate (BPH), Urinary Tract Infection in Children, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), Prostatectomy, and Ureteroscopy.

Ahmed Aboumohamed, MD is an Attending Physician and a Professor in the Department of Urology at Montefiore and our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Aboumohamed's areas of expertise include urology, urologic oncology, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, and urologic reconstruction. Dr. Aboumohamed is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Bilateral Hydronephrosis, Bladder Cancer, Hydronephrosis, Cystectomy, and Nephrectomy.

Benjamin A. Gartrell, MD, is Director, Genitourinary Malignancy Program at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor of Oncology and Urology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since joining the Montefiore team in 2012, his expertise has been in treating genitourinary malignancies including prostate cancer, bladder cancer, renal cell cancer, and testicular cancer. He is also very active in translating science findings in collaboration with research colleagues at Einstein. In 2000, Dr. Gartrell received his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Following this, he attended the Northwestern University?s Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, Illinois, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 2005. His postgraduate training began in 2005 with an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, which he completed in 2008. He then completed a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2012 and became Chief Fellow from 2010-2011. With a vast range of research interests, Dr. Gartrell focuses on translational research evaluating the significance of a novel immune checkpoint molecule in bladder cancer, evaluating the role of the autonomic nervous system in?prostate cancer, toxicities associated with anticancer therapies, and the impact of bone metastasis on patients with prostate cancer. His work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Urologic Oncology, and European Urology. Dr. Gartrell also participates in community outreach to promote Prostate Cancer Awareness. Dr. Gartrell is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), WT1-Related Wilms Tumor Syndromes, Clear Cell Sarcoma, and Nephrectomy.

Madhur Garg earned his medical degree at King George’s Medical College and completed his residency in radiation oncology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago and Montefiore in New York City. He also completed a specialized fellowship at Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Garg is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Cervical Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Acoustic Neuroma, and Schwannoma.

William Bodner is a Radiation Oncologist in Bronx, New York. Dr. Bodner is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Anal Cancer, and Pleuropulmonary Blastoma.

Dr. Lerner received his Medical Degree with honors (cum laude) from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York. He was elected as a member to the Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medical Society. Dr. Lerner is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.

Dr. Glassman has been practicing general and pediatric urology for over 35 years in Westchester. Dr. Glassman's most recent focus is on minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of benign prostatic gland enlargement (BPH) and erectile dysfunction. Dr. Glassman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Enlarged Prostate (BPH), Familial Prostate Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Urinary Tract Infection in Children, and Ureteroscopy.

Ulrich Hermanto, MD, PhD, is Medical Director at Montefiore Yonkers Radiation Oncology in Yonkers, NY and an Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He joined the Montefiore team in 2018, with a clinical focus on adult malignancies including those of the breast, genitourinary/prostate, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, head and neck, lung, soft tissue sarcoma, skin and lymphoma. He treats his patients using advanced external beam radiation techniques, including intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT), as well as intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT) and brachytherapy, among other techniques. In 1992, Dr. Hermanto received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry with Distinction at Boston University. Dr. Hermanto studied at Mount Sinai School of Medicine earning his Doctor of Medicine, which he received in 2002, while simultaneously earning his Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences in 1999. Dr. Hermanto continued with postgraduate training in 2003 with a year-long internship in Internal Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons followed by a clinical residency in Radiation Oncology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center which he completed in 2007. Dr. Hermanto is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Breast Cancer, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Laryngeal Cancer, and Throat Cancer.

Michael Lipsky is a Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Lipsky is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), UPJ Obstruction, Ureteroscopy, and Cystectomy.

Stephen W. Reese, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Reese cares for patients with urologic cancers, using minimally invasive and open surgical approaches. He has a particular interest in the management of urologic cancers, including kidney, prostate, bladder, adrenal and testicular cancer and works to care for patients in a multidisciplinary setting with his colleagues in medical and radiation oncology. In 2017, Dr. Reese received his Doctor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA in 2022 and then completed a Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2024. Dr. Reese is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), Renal Oncocytoma, Nephrectomy, and Cystectomy.