Honors and Awards
First Place Video Award for Retro-Apical Technique of Robotic Prostate Cancer Surgery, Annual American Urological Association (AUA) Meeting, San Francisco, California 2010
Syme Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2009
Cutlers’ Surgical Prize, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2009
BJU International Visiting Professor Award, University of Mainz, Germany, 2009
American Urological Association/Gyrus Prize Essay Contest (Clinical Research), Time tissue recognition of periprostatic tissue architecture and its relevance to nerve sparing radical prostatectomy: a pilot study using multiphoton microscopy and second harmonic generation, 2009
Best Scientific Paper (Urology) Award, Society of Laporoendoscopic Surgeons, Orlando, Florida, 2008
Grand Prize, International College of Surgeons Research Essay Award, 2008
Best Basic Science Research Abstract Award, Sexual Medicine Society of North America Annual Meeting, 2008
Best Research Abstract, American Urological Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 2008
Real-time imaging of periprostatic tissue architecture with multiphoton microscopy and second harmonic generation for improving potency outcomes in nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy: Our preliminary results
First Prize Winner, Anatomic foundations for nerve sparing robotic prostatectomy: Correlations between anatomic, surgical and “real time tissue recognition” with multiphoton microscopy, American Urological Society-AUA-ACMI Clinical Research, Orlando, Florida, 2008
Clinical Research- Second Place Award, Surgical technique overcoming anatomic shortcoming: Balancing post prostatectomy continence outcomes of sphincteric urethral lengths on preoperative MRI, American Urological Society-AUA-ACMI Clinical Research, Orlando, Florida, 2008
First Prize - Best Video Presentation, Grades of nerve sparing, AUA, Orlando, Florida, 2008
Best Video and Best Poster Award, First and Second Prizes ACMI Gyrus Research Essay Awards, AUA Annual Meeting, 2008
Best Video (Urology) Award, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2008
Second Prize, Endourology Society Essay Award, 2008
Astellas/AUA Best Poster Award for Impotence Research, AUA, 2008
America’s Best Doctors and New York’s Best Doctors, 2007 and 2008
Prostate Cancer Foundation Award, Real time tissue recognition to identify nerves and prostate cancer cells- Utility as an intraoperative tool during robotic prostatectomy, Lake Tahoe, 2007
G. M. Phadke Memorial Oration, Current state of prostate cancer treatment, Urology Society of India, 2007
World Congress of Endourology Essay Second Prize Pelvic neuroanatomy- foundations for nerve sparing prostatectomy, Cancun, 2007
First Place in Surgical Video, Athermal technique of nerve sparing prostatectomy, AUA, 2005
First Prize Winner-AUA-ACMI-Ambrose Reeds Prize, Cost Effective Essay Contest, Racial disparities in prostate cancer outcomes- Impact of socioeconomic factors, 2005
First Prize Winner- AUA-ACMI Prize, Survival modeling tables in the management of prostate cancer: A propensity risk method, AUA, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
First Prize AUA-ACMI-Ambrose Reeds Cost Effective Essay Contest, Factor affecting differences in survival in African American and Caucasian races, AUA, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
Second Prize Best Surgical Video, Technique of nerve sparing robotic prostatectomy, AUA, 2003
First Place Joseph F. McCarthy/ACMI Physician Essay Contest, Predicting the outcome of prostate biopsy in a racially diverse population, 78th Western Section AUA, Kauai, Hawaii, 2002
First Prize-Traveling Fellowship NCS-AUA: Impact of robotics on surgical Skill. North Central Section
American Urological Association, Chicago, 2002
First Prize Clinical Paper, Role of surgery in high-grade cancer prostate, Michigan Urological Society, 2002
Recognition in Laparoscopic Surgery Resident Achievement Award, Society of Laparoscopic Urology. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002
Gerald Murphy Scholar in Prostate Cancer, AUA, Orlando, Florida, 2002
Third Prize, Utility of predictive modeling tables in patients following radical prostatectomy, Michigan Research Forum, 2002
Golden Glove Membership, L’ Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France, 2002
Who’s Who in World, Millennium Edition, 2000
Pfizer Scholar Award, 1999
Second Prize Montague Boyd Essay Contest, Cost effective staging algorithm for prostate cancer: a novel approach using genetic adaptive neural networks, South Eastern Section AUA, 1997
Third Prize Essay Contest, Use of neural networks in staging of prostate cancer, AUA, 1997
First Prize John Harrington Tanous Award for Distinguished Research in Cancer, Post radical prostatectomy sling procedure: clinical-anatomical study, 1997
Best Scientific Presentation, University of Florida Research Day, 1996
Distinction in Physiology, Pathology and Social & Preventive Medicine Award, 1984
Five Gold Medal Awards for securing highest marks in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ophthalmology, and Surgery, 1983
Physiology Society Gold Medal and Pathology Society Silver Medal, 1983
Dr. B.N. Gold Medal and a Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.D. and all examinations, 1983
Best Overall Graduate of the Year, 1982
Chancellor’s Gold Medal for securing first position in final professional M.D. examination, 1982
Five Gold Medals for highest marks in Physiology, Forensic Medicine, Pathology, Social/Preventive Medicine, 1981
S.P.M. Society Silver Medal for securing distinction in Social and Preventive Medicine, 1981
Three Gold Medals for highest marks in first professional M.D. exam, Physiology, and in E.N.T., 1980
Physiology Society Silver Medal, distinction in Physiology, 1980
