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Founding Director, Desai Sethi Urology Institute
Professor and Chair, Department of Urology
Director of Robotic Surgery
The Victor A Politano Endowed Chair in Urology
Chief Operating Officer, University of Miami Health System
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Biography
Dr. Dipen J Parekh serves as the Professor and Chairman of the Urology Department at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is the holder of the Victor Politano Endowed Chair in Urology and serves as the Director of Robotic Surgery for the University of Miami Health System. In August 2017, Dr. Parekh was named Chief Clinical Officer of the University of Miami Health System. Dr. Parekh assumed responsibility of all UHealth outpatient and inpatient services, working closely with all department chairs and clinical faculty to enhance the clinical enterprise. In January 2020, Dr. Parekh was also named Chief Operating Officer for University of Miami UHealth System overseeing the health system’s operations while collaborating with many leaders on ambulatory strategy, inpatient clinical operations, optimizing the clinical care team model and advancing performance improvement efforts across the health system. In addition to his previous titles, in 2021 Dr. Parekh was named Executive Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Miller School of Medicine providing strategic counseling on enhancing the synergy between our academic and clinical missions.
In May of 2013 he was honored with the Gold Cystoscope Award, one of the most prestigious awards presented to one individual each year by the American Urological Association (AUA). He serves as Principal Investigator of the only National Cancer Institute RO1 Grant sponsored phase 3 multi-institutional clinical trial comparing open and robotic cystectomy for bladder cancer. He recently completed the first ever prospective clinical study on clamp renal ischemia during partial nephrectomy with transformative results.
Dr. Parekh is a board-certified, fellowship trained urologist specializing in urologic oncology using minimally invasive laparoscopic, robotic and traditional open approaches to treat prostate, bladder and kidney cancer and has performed over 5,000 robotic urologic procedures. Dr. Parekh has started several robotic surgery centers and programs of excellence both nationally and internationally. As part of his research interest, Dr. Parekh has been an active investigator in Urologic Oncology for the past 10 years predominantly in clinical trials and in translational research with a focus on prevention, detection, and treatment of genitourinary malignancies. He is the author of several scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters and has served as an Assistant editor for the Journal of Urology.
Dr. Parekh is a member of the American Urological Association, Endourology Society and Urology Society of India among other organizations. -
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