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Physician receives Blue Ribbon Award from Integrated Medical Foundation
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Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, chair of urology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and chairman of the department of urology at Mount Sinai Hospital, received the Physician Blue Ribbon Award from the Integrated Medical Foundation.
The award recognizes Tewari’s commitment to the early detection of prostate cancer.
Ash Tewari
“I am honored and thankful to be the 2014 Blue Ribbon Award recipient for my efforts and those of my team to advance diagnostic and nerve sparing techniques for men with prostate cancer,” Tewari said in a press release. “Precision urology, novel imaging, real time microscopy and genomic analysis will help us in identifying aggressive cancers and thus avoid the problems of over diagnosis and overtreatment which are so relevant in the current prostate cancer landscape.”
Tewari, who has performed more than 5,000 robotic prostatectomies and other minimally invasive procedures for various urological cancers, previously served as founding director of the Lefrak Center for Robotic Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Tewari has trained more than 30 fellows and residents in robotics and has made presentations on innovation in robotics at major medical meetings around the world.
“As an internationally acclaimed board-certified oncology urologist, researcher and innovator in the field of prostate cancer, Integrated Medical Foundation is proud to honor Dr. Tewari,” Eric Mitchnick MD, FACS, the foundation’s president, said in a press release.