DipenJParekhMD

Chairman, Department of Urology and Director of Robotic Surgery Chief Clinical Officer , University of Miami Health System Interim Chief Operating Officer, University of Miami Health System.

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Overview of Dr. Parekh

I received my undergraduate education from Mumbai, India and my M.D. degree from Poona University. I then pursued a residency in General Surgery and Urology from Mumbai University, India. I was awarded the Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship that enabled me to pursue further training in the United States. After a Residency in Urology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, I completed a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Currently, I am the Chairman of the Department of Urology and Director of Robotic Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. I have published several scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters in Urology. I also serves as the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Urology, the pre eminent journal in the field.

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Sylvester at Deerfield Beach 1192 E Newport Center Dr, Suite 100
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
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Education & Training

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterFellowship, UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY, 2005 - 2006
Vanderbilt UniversityResidency, Urology, 2001 - 2005
Vanderbilt UniversityInternship, Transitional Year, 2000 - 2001
Rural Medical College Pravara Institute of Medical SciencesClass of 1993

Certifications & Licensure

FL State Medical License 2012 - 2022
TX State Medical License 2006 - 2019
American Board of Urology Urology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

GOLD CYSTOSCOPE AWARD AMERICAN UROLOGY ASSOCIATION, 2013
America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2014
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2013
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
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Clinical Trials

MRI-Guided Biopsy Selection of Prostate Cancer Patients for Active Surveillance Versus Treatment: The Miami MAST Trial Start of enrollment: 2014 Oct 01Punnen, S.
Phase II Open Label Investigation of the Safety and Efficacy of Pre-Operative Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE) Before Radical Prostatectomy in Prostate Cancer Patients Start of enrollment: 2014 Jul 01Bhatia, S.
A Randomized Two-Arm Trial of Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Active Surveillance With or Without MRI-Guided Management: The MGM Trial Start of enrollment: 2012 Aug 01Casillas, V.J.,Stoyanova, R.,Abramowitz, M.C.,Singal, R.,Parekh, D.J.,Pollack, A.,Manoharan, M.,Lynne, C.M.,Leveillee, R.J.,Kava, B.R.,Jorda, M.,Cote, R.J.
Open Vs Robotic-Assisted Radical Cystectomy: A Randomized Trial Start of enrollment: 2009 Mar 01Battle, P.,Dash, A.,Gonzalgo, M.L.,Green, V.,Hernandez, L.,Kibel, A.,Konety, B.,Mihalik, L.,Parekh, D.J.,Quek, M.L.,Sabsigh, A.,Steele, P.,Strasbaugh, A.,Tollefson, M.,Weizer, A.Z.,Woods, M.

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

A How-to Guide to Building a Robust SARS-CoV-2 Testing Program at a University-Based Health System.
Nimer, S. D., Chapman, J., Reidy, L., Alencar, A., Wu, Y., Williams, S., Pagan, L., Gjolaj, L., MacIntyre, J., Triana, M., Vance, B., Andrews, D., Fan, Y., Zhou, Y., M...> ;Academic pathology. 2020 Oct 23
Re-establishing the Role of Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy After the 2020 EAU Muscle-invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer Guideline Panel Recommendations.
Montorsi, F., Bandini, M., Briganti, A., Dasgupta, P., Gallina, A., Gallucci, M., Gill, I. S., Guru, K. A., Hemal, A., Menon, M., Moschini, M., Murphy, D. G., Parekh, ...> ;European urology. 2020 Aug 2
Predicting intra-operative and postoperative consequential events using machine-learning techniques in patients undergoing robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: a Vattik...
Bhandari, M., Nallabasannagari, A. R., Reddiboina, M., Porter, J. R., Jeong, W., Mottrie, A., Dasgupta, P., Challacombe, B., Abaza, R., Rha, K. H., Parekh, D. J., Ahla...> ;BJU international. 2020 Apr 22
Health Related Quality of Life of Patients with Bladder Cancer in the RAZOR Trial: A Multi-Institutional Randomized Trial Comparing Robot versus Open Radical Cystectomy.
Becerra, M. F., Venkatramani, V., Reis, I. M., Soodana-Prakash, N., Punnen, S., Gonzalgo, M. L., Raolji, S., Castle, E. P., Woods, M. E., Svatek, R. S., Weizer, A. Z.,...> ;The Journal of urology. 2020 Apr 10
Prospective Evaluation of Focal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Localized Prostate Cancer.
Nahar, B., Bhat, A., Reis, I. M., Soodana-Prakash, N., Becerra, M. F., Lopategui, D., Venkatramani, V., Patel, R., Madhusoodanan, V., Kryvenko, O. N., Ritch, C. R., Go...> ;The Journal of urology. 2020 Mar 14
Predictors of Recurrence, and Progression-Free and Overall Survival following Open versus Robotic Radical Cystectomy: Analysis from the RAZOR Trial with a 3-Year Follo...
Vivek Venkatramani, Isildinha M. Reis, Erik P. Castle, Mark L. Gonzalgo, Michael Woods, Robert S. Svatek, Alon Z. Weizer, Badrinath R. Konety, Mathew Tollefson, Tracey...> ;The Journal of Urology. 2020 Mar 1
Timing of adjuvant chemotherapy and overall survival following radical cystectomy.
Jue, J. S., Koru-Sengul, T., Miao, F., Kroeger, Z. A., Moore, K. J., Alameddine, M., Punnen, S., Parekh, D. J., Ritch, C. R., Gonzalgo, M. L.> ;Urologic oncology. 2019 Dec 23
The Balance between Open and Robotic Training among Graduating Urology Residents-Does Surgical Technique Need Monitoring?
Merrill, S. B., Sohl, B. S., Thompson, R. H., Reese, A. C., Parekh, D. J., Lynch, J. H., Grob, B. M., Williams, D. H., Lee, R. K., Zaslau, S., Guzzo, T. J., Shenot, P....> ;The Journal of urology. 2019 Dec 12
Utility and Validation of the AUA/SUO Risk Grouping for Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer in a Contemporary Cohort.
Ritch, C. R., Velasquez, M. C., Kwon, D., Becerra, M. F., Soodana-Prakash, N., Atluri, V. S., Almengo, K., Alameddine, M., Kineish, O., Kava, B. R., Punnen, S., Parekh...> ;The Journal of urology. 2019 Oct 15
<i>Editorial Comment on:</i> Does the Use of the Robot Decrease the Complication Rate Adherent to Radical Cystectomy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies ...
Venkatramani, V., Parekh, D. J.> ;Journal of endourology. 2019 Sep 24
Impact of Surgical Technique on Surgical Margin Status Following Partial Cystectomy.
Owyong, M., Koru-Sengul, T., Miao, F., Razdan, S., Moore, K. J., Alameddine, M., Punnen, S., Parekh, D. J., Ritch, C. R., Gonzalgo, M. L.> ;Urologic oncology. 2019 Aug 26
Propensity-matched analysis of stage-specific efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy for bladder cancer.
Chen, F. V., Koru-Sengul, T., Miao, F., Jue, J. S., Alameddine, M., Dave, D. J., Punnen, S., Parekh, D. J., Ritch, C. R., Gonzalgo, M. L.> ;Urologic oncology. 2019 Aug 20
Validation of dominant and secondary sequence utilization in PI-RADS v2 for classifying prostatic lesions.
Soodana-Prakash, N., Castillo, R. P., Reis, I. M., Stoyanova, R., Kwon, D., Velasquez, M. C., Nahar, B., Kannabur, P., Johnson, T. A., Swain, S. K., Ben-Yakar, N., Ven...> ;The Canadian journal of urology. 2019 Jun 11
Androgen Suppression Therapy Is Associated with Lower Recurrence of Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer.
Wu, S., Kwon, D., Jue, J. S., Chen, F. V., Escobar, M. C., Punnen, S., Parekh, D. J., Ritch, C. R., Gonzalgo, M. L.> ;European urology focus. 2019 May 20
Focal therapy for localized prostate cancer: Where do we stand?
Nahar, B., Parekh, D. J.> ;European urology focus. 2019 May 6
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma with Level IV Thrombus: Contemporary Management with Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Targeted Therapy.
Bhat, A., Nahar, B., Venkatramani, V., Banerjee, I., Kryvenko, O. N., Parekh, D. J.> ;Case reports in urology. 2019 Apr 20
Does Every Minute of Renal Ischemia Still Count in 2019? Unlocking the Chains of a Flawed Thought Process over Five Decades.
Nahar, B., Bhat, A., Parekh, D. J.> ;European urology focus. 2019 Apr 20
Evidence trumps consensus.
Venkatramani, V., Parekh, D. J.> ;BJU international. 2019 Mar 2
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Association Between Gleason Score at a Positive Surgical Margin and the Risk of Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy.
Viacheslav Iremashvili, Liset Pelaez, Merce Jorda, Dipen J. Parekh, Sanoj Punnen> ;The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2019 Mar 1
Robot-assisted versus open cystectomy in the RAZOR trial - Authors' reply.
Parekh, D. J., Venkatramani, V.> ;Lancet (London, England). 2019 Feb 21
Robotic-assisted radical cystectomy vs open radical cystectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis
Niranjan J. Sathianathen, Arveen Kalapara, Mark Frydenberg, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Christopher J. Weight, Dipen J. Parekh, Badrinath R. Konety> ;The Journal of Urology. 2019 Jan 18
Entering an era of radiogenomics in prostate cancer risk stratification.
Soodana-Prakash, N., Stoyanova, R., Bhat, A., Velasquez, M. C., Kineish, O. E., Pollack, A., Parekh, D. J., Punnen, S.> ;Translational andrology and urology. 2018 Oct 27
Prostate Artery Embolization in Patients with Prostate Volumes of 80 mL or More: A Single-Institution Retrospective Experience of 93 Patients.
Bhatia, S., Sinha, V. K., Harward, S., Gomez, C., Kava, B. R., Parekh, D. J.> ;Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR. 2018 Sep 16
Perioperative outcomes and complication predictors associated with open and minimally invasive nephroureterectomy.
Soodana-Prakash, N., Balise, R., Nahar, B., Venkatramani, V., Palmer, J., Pavan, N., Johnson, T. A., Rai, S., Satyanarayana, R., Ritch, C., Punnen, S., Parekh, D. J., ...> ;The Canadian journal of urology. 2018 Aug 21
Optimizing patient’s selection for prostate biopsy: A single institution experience with multi-parametric MRI and the 4Kscore test for the detection of aggressive pros...
Sanoj Punnen, Bruno Nahar, Nachiketh Soodana-Prakash, Tulay Koru-Sengul, Radka Stoyanova, Alan Pollack, Bruce R. Kava, Mark L. Gonzalgo, Chad R. Ritch, Dipen J. Parekh> ;PLOS ONE. 2018 Aug 9
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Lectures

Editorial: Evidence Trumps Consensus
American Urological Association, Miramar Beach, Florida - 7/19/2013

Press Mentions

Help for COVID-19-Related Concerns Is Just a Phone Call AwayAugust 11, 2020 10:57
Dr. Devinder Singh Joins UHealth and Miller School to Lead Plastic SurgeryJuly 02, 2020 09:18
A New Paradigm in Prostate Cancer TreatmentSeptember 25, 2019 14:27
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Hospital Affiliations

University of Miami HospitalMiami, Florida
University of Miami Hospital and ClinicsMiami, Florida
Doctor's Hospital at RenaissanceEdinburg, Texas
UMHC - Sylvester ComprehensiveMiami, Florida

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