
Overview
Dr. Simon J Hall MD is a board certified urologist with Fellowship training in Urologic Oncology. His clinical interests include the diagnosis and treatment of Prostate, Bladder and Kidney cancers. He is especially interested in Active Surveillance of men with prostate cancer and men and women with incidentally found small renal masses and the creation of continent urinary reconstructions for patients who need to undergo cystectomy for Bladder cancer. Furthermore, Dr. Hall has a keen interest in treating patients with recurrent prostate cancer following definitive therapy. He believes that objective & balanced communication with the patient and family is the key to decision making and individualized care. Over the years Dr. Hall has been named as Best Doctor, both nationally and regionally, by organizations such as Castle Connolly, SuperDoctors and New York Magazine. Dr. Hall s research has focused of new therapies for prostate and bladder cancer; he has participated in numerous clinical trials, some of which generated data resulting in FDA approval of Sipleucel-T (Provenge) and enzulutamide (Xtandi). He oversees a laboratory investigating novel approaches to negating the Androgen Receptor, an important key driver of castration resistant prostate cancer. Decision making and improved methods of clinical care for patients with bladder and prostate cancer are important aspects of his research interests in collaboration with Dr. Michael Diefenbach, a behavioral scientist in the Departments of Urology & Medicine at NS-LIJ. He has authored or co-authored nearly 70 peer reviewed articles in Journals such as Journal of Urology, Urology, British Journal of Urology, Clinical Cancer Research and Science. Dr. Hall received his MD from the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. He then completed two years of Surgery training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center followed by a four year residency in Urology at Boston University School of Medicine. This was followed by a 2 year fellowship in Urologic Oncology in the Scott Department of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to joining the Smith Institute for Urology, he served on the faculty of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for 18 years, holding various positions including Kyung Hyun Kim MD Chair of Urology and the Director of the Deane Prostate Health & Research Center.
Dr. Hall is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. His top areas of expertise are Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 50 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 23 articles in the study of Prostate Cancer.
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Locations
450 Lakeville Road, Suite M42, Lake Success, NY 11042
450 Lakeville Road, M41, Lake Success, NY 11042
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Hall has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
Northwell Health Physician Partners Smith Institute For Urology At Lake Success
As Senior Vice President of the Urology Service Line, Chair of theSmith Institute for Urology, and Chair of Urology at the Zucker Schoolof Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Samir Taneja, MD will establish hisclinical practice at Lenox Hill Hospital and Long Island Jewish MedicalCenter focused on the surgical management of prostate cancerand renal tumors. He is an expert in urologic oncology, renowned fortransforming the field of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatmentby improving methods of prostate imaging, cancer detection, anddisease localization. Having performed thousands of robotic, ablative,laparoscopic and open surgical procedures, his specific clinical focushas been in improving prostate cancer patient outcomes throughpioneering techniques for focal ablative therapy, refining surgicaltechniques for robotic prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy,devising accelerated recovery pathways for robotic prostatectomy/partial nephrectomy, and providing muti-modal surgical approachesfor patients with high risk and recurrent prostate cancer. As leader ofthe department, he will strive to ensure individualized care of urologicdisease through state-of-the-art surgical approaches and multi-disciplinary care.Prior to joining Northwell, Dr Taneja was a faculty member of NYUGrossman School of Medicine for 29-years as a tenured professorof urology, radiology, and biomedical engineering. Most recently heserved as Director of the Division of Urologic Oncology and ViceChair in the Department of Urology at NYU Langone Health, as well asGenitourinary Program Leader in the Perlmutter Cancer Center.Dr. Taneja has conducted extensive clinical research on the use ofimaging in prostate cancer and is considered a pioneer in the use ofMRI to diagnose and localize prostate cancer and the emerging field ofprostate cancer focal therapy. He has authored more than 250 articles,30 book chapters, and six textbooks and monographs on urologiccancer and surgery. He is the editor of Taneja's Complications ofUrologic Surgery: Prevention and Diagnosis, one of the most widely readtextbooks in American Urology. Dr. Taneja 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, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Prostatectomy, and Nephrectomy.
Mskcc Surgery Group
James Eastham is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Eastham 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, Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Prostatectomy, and Orchiectomy.
Howard Scher is an Oncologist in New York, New York. Dr. Scher 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, Bone Tumor, Orchiectomy, and Prostatectomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Bladder CancerDr. Hall isDistinguished. Learn about Bladder Cancer.
- Muscle Invasive Bladder CancerDr. Hall isDistinguished. Learn about Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer.
- Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder CancerDr. Hall isDistinguished. Learn about Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer.
- Prostate CancerDr. Hall isDistinguished. Learn about Prostate Cancer.
- Urothelial CancerDr. Hall isDistinguished. Learn about Urothelial Cancer.
- Advanced
- Bilateral HydronephrosisDr. Hall isAdvanced. Learn about Bilateral Hydronephrosis.
- Bladder Outlet ObstructionDr. Hall isAdvanced. Learn about Bladder Outlet Obstruction.
- Bladder StonesDr. Hall isAdvanced. Learn about Bladder Stones.
- BoilsDr. Hall isAdvanced. Learn about Boils.
- CarbuncleDr. Hall isAdvanced. Learn about Carbuncle.
- Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
- Experienced
- BalanitisDr. Hall isExperienced. Learn about Balanitis.
- Bladder ReconstructionDr. Hall isExperienced. Learn about Bladder Reconstruction.
- ChoriocarcinomaDr. Hall isExperienced. Learn about Choriocarcinoma.
- CystectomyDr. Hall isExperienced. Learn about Cystectomy.
- EmpyemaDr. Hall isExperienced. Learn about Empyema.
- EpididymitisDr. Hall isExperienced. Learn about Epididymitis.

