For Immediate Release
August 5, 2005

Director of Robotic Surgery Appointed at Roswell Park

BUFFALO, NY – Khurshid A. Guru, MD, has been appointed Director of Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). A new Center opened in 2004 and is the first facility in the Buffalo-Niagara region to offer state-of-the-art robotic surgical technology to patients with prostate cancer. He also will serve as Assistant Professor in the Department of Urologic Oncology at RPCI.

Dr. Guru’s research interest is the application of robotic surgery to radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer and radical cystectomy and urinary reconstruction for bladder cancer. He will lead the growing robotic surgery program in the Department of Urologic Oncology and assist other surgical departments with bringing the benefits of robotic surgery to patients with gynecologic, thoracic and gastrointestinal cancers.

Dr. Guru earned his medical degree (1994) at the University of Mysore, JJM Medical College in Karnataka, India. He completed residency training in Urological Surgery (2005) and a Robotic Surgery Fellowship (2004) at Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, MI. He also completed an International Fellowship in Urologic-Oncology (2004) at the Urology and Nephrology Center at Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt and a fellowship in Urological Surgery (2000), at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Togus, ME.

Dr. Guru is a member of the Endourological Association, American Urological Association, American Medical Association, and Jammu and Kashmir Urological Society. He has authored and co-authored several journal articles and abstracts.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, founded 1898, is the nation’s first cancer research, treatment and education center and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Upstate New York. RPCI is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers. For more information, visit RPCI’s website at www.roswellpark.org, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI or e-mail askrpci@roswellpark.org.

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