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

Lee Zhao is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Zhao is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Urethral Stricture, Testicular Torsion, Meatal Stenosis, Reconstructive Urology Surgery, and Ureteral Reconstruction.

Miroslav Djordjevic is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Djordjevic is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Epispadias, Hypospadias, Meatal Stenosis, Reconstructive Urology Surgery, and Vaginectomy.

Guido Dalbagni is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Dalbagni is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Bladder Cancer, Urothelial Cancer, Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (UTUC), Cystectomy, and Nephrectomy. Dr. Dalbagni is currently accepting new patients.

Ronald Kaufman is an Urologist in Albany, New York. Dr. Kaufman is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Enlarged Prostate (BPH), Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Clear Cell Sarcoma, Aquablation, and Nephrectomy.

William Huang is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Huang is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Bladder Cancer, Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.

James Wysock is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Wysock is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Urachal Cyst, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Nephrectomy, and Prostatectomy.

Benjamin Brucker is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Brucker is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Urinary Incontinence, Stress Urinary Incontinence, Bladder Outlet Obstruction, Prostatectomy, and Bladder Reconstruction.

Lloyd Ratner is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in New York, New York. Dr. Ratner is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chylous Ascites, Kidney Transplant, and Pancreas Transplant.

Bruce Gelb is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in New York, New York. Dr. Gelb is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Hepatitis, Kidney Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant.

Pokala Kiran is a Colorectal Surgeon and a General Surgeon in New York, New York. Dr. Kiran is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Gastrointestinal Fistula, Rectal Prolapse, Familial Colorectal Cancer, Bladder Reconstruction, and Hernia Surgery. Dr. Kiran is currently accepting new patients.

Ariel Schulman is an Urologist in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Schulman has been practicing medicine for over 16 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Enlarged Prostate (BPH), Bladder Cancer, Prostatectomy, and Nephrectomy.

Yukio Sonoda is a Gynecologic Oncologist and an Oncologist in West Harrison, New York. Dr. Sonoda is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Ovarian Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Hysterectomy, and Lymphadenectomy.

Dmitriy Nikolavsky is an Urologist and a General Surgeon in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Nikolavsky is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Urethral Stricture, Urinary Incontinence, Stress Urinary Incontinence, Reconstructive Urology Surgery, and Vaginectomy.

Louis Kavoussi, MD, MBA, Director of teleintervention at Northwell. He is a world-renowned urologic surgeon who brings more than 30 years of specialized expertise in minimally invasive urological surgery. His area of focus includes treating a wide range of urologic diseases, including kidney obstructions, renal stones and urologic cancer. At the forefront of innovation, Dr. Kavoussi pioneered several new surgical techniques, including the first minimally invasive approaches to kidney surgery for kidney cancer and kidney donation. He was also part of the team that performed the first laparoscopic prostate removal for cancer. In 1999, Dr. Kavoussi received a Smithsonian Computerworld Permanent Collection award for his work in developing telerounding, the starting point of telehealth medicine-to facilitate physician communication with hospitalized patients. Before joining Northwell in 2005 as chair of urology, Dr. Kavoussi completed his medical degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He obtained his urologic training at Washington University of St. Louis and, directly following residency, was named chief of urology at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. In 1991, he was appointed assistant professor at Harvard School of Medicine and director of endourology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 1993, he joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he was vice chairman of urology and named a Patrick C. Walsh Distinguished Professor. Dr. Kavoussi values a team approach to care, and often collaborates with other specialists to create personalized and comprehensive treatment plans. His patients appreciate his easygoing personality and thoughtfulness. As the Waldbaum-Gardner Distinguished Professor of Urology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Dr. Kavoussi is passionate about training the next generation of surgeons. He has presented his work and given live surgical demonstrations at conferences around the world and has more than 500 academic publications. Dr. Kavoussi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma, WT1-Related Wilms Tumor Syndromes, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.

Michael Grasso is an Urologist in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Dr. Grasso is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are UPJ Obstruction, Boils, Retroperitoneal Fibrosis, Ureteroscopy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.

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 Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Prostatectomy, and Nephrectomy.

Guarionex Decastro is an Urologist in New York, New York. Dr. Decastro is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Bladder Cancer, Urothelial Cancer, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Cystectomy, and Nephrectomy.

Reza Ghavamian is an Oncologist and an Urologist in Greenlawn, New York. Dr. Ghavamian is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), WT1-Related Wilms Tumor Syndromes, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.

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 an Advanced provider by MediFind in Reconstructive Urology Surgery. His top areas of expertise are Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Nephrectomy, and Reconstructive Urology Surgery.