Arieh L. Shalhav, MD

University of Chicago

Arieh L. Shalhav, B.Sc. and M.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986. Internship residency at the Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University in 1995 . Recieved ascholarship to spend PGY3 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Fellowship in laparoscopy/endourology with Ralph Clayman at Washington University in St. Louis 1998. He became Director of Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis in 1999, where he developed one of the most active laparoscopic donor nephrectomy programs in the country. In 2002, he joined the University of Chicago as the Director of Laparoscopic and Robotic Urologic Surgery, where he established an Endourologic Society and in 2011 a Society of Urologic Oncology fellowships.
As a pioneer in the field he built one of the most prominent urologic clinical and research robotic surgery programs in the country. He has authored multiple manuscripts on robotic surgery, has been faculty on multiple robotic conferences and run 5 major courses on robotic surgery at the UChicago. In April, 2007 Dr. Shalhav was named The Fritz and Mary Lee Duda Family Professor and Chief of Urology. In September 2010, he was the President and run the 28th World Congress of Endourology Meeting in Chicago. Since 2012 he is the director of the multispecdiality robotic surgery program at UChicago including; Cardiac, GYN, Genreral surgey, Thoracic, ENTand pediatric urology.
He has received awards for his teaching, research and clinical work from the Society of Laproendoscopic Surgeons, Endourological Society and the American Urological Association. He is an active member in these societies and has vast experience in robotic and laparoscopic management of urologic malignancies. Currently focusing on HIFU for Prostate Cancer, he devotes his career to persuing effective surgical treatments that are less disruptive to the human body and life.

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Presentation(s):

• 104HO - Introduction to Prostate Tissue Ablation: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound and Cryotherapy

  Saturday, May 14, 2022
  2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

• Hands-on Skills Stations

  Saturday, May 14, 2022
  3:00 PM – 5:00 PM