Vinayak Gorakhanath Wagaskar

Dr. Vinayak Gorakhanath Wagaskar

Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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Biography

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 the Urologic Residency program at King’s Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. 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 the mentorship of Dr. Tewari in 2018. Dr. Wagaskar is a superb clinician who receives excellent reviews from his patients and from our trainees and staff. Dr. Wagaskar has specialized expertise in the use of robotic surgical systems for prostate cancer surgery and is skilled with the most advanced, state-of-the-art technologies. He also specialized in prostate biopsy procedures with magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) equipment in combination with ultrasound fusion technologies. He is an expert in the development of computational models for diagnosing prostate cancer, which is the use of statistics and computer algorithms to make predictions about who may develop prostate cancer and about the severity of the 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.

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, USA

Urology

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