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Clinical Instructor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital
Dr. Wagaskar is a medical graduate (2003-2009) from Govt. Medical College, Akola, India. He has completed 3 years of General Surgery residency from SRTR MC, Ambajogai, India. He completed 4 years of Urologic Residency program from King’s Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. Prior to joining our department he was Vattikuti Urologic Oncology Robotic Scholar for a year at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India. He started Urologic Oncology Fellowship under mentorship of Dr. Tewari in 2018. Dr. Wagaskar has a specialized expertise in the use of robotic surgical systems for prostate cancer surgery (to remove the prostate), and am skilled with the most advanced, state-of-the-art technologies. He is also specialized in prostate biopsy (removing prostate tissue for testing) procedures with magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) equipment in combination with ultrasound fusion technologies, a precise technique that incorporates imaging and high-intensity sound waves. He is an expertise in the development of computational models for diagnosing prostate cancer, which is the use of statistics and computer algorithms (mathematical formulas) to make predictions about who may develop prostate cancer and about the severity of disease, as well as the development of “online calculators” that assist surgeons in choosing the best surgical techniques in order to help reduce the damage during surgery to the nerves surrounding the prostate.
There are a number of objective factors that evidence Dr. Wagaskar’s expertise in the Urology field. These include his exceptional surgical acumen, the major significance of his original contributions, his more than 40 publications in top ranked internationally circulated journals including European Urology, Journal of Urology, The Prostate, Cancer Reports, and Indian Journal of Urology, the articles that cite to and discuss his work, the media attention his work received, and his role as a judge of the work of others in the field.
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Saturday, May 14, 2022
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, May 15, 2022
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM