Faculty

Dr. Desai is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in robotic, laparoscopic and endourologic surgery. He comes to USC from the Cleveland Clinic where he completed his laparoscopic and robotic fellowship in 2003 and was appointed faculty at the Glickman Urological institute. There he was director of the Center for Endourology and the Endourology Fellowship Program. His innovative pioneering work includes novel techniques for treating uretero-pelvic obstruction, developing novel flexible robotic platforms and most recently the single-port (scarless belly-button) laparoscopic surgery for various urologic conditions. Dr. Desai is part of a team at USC that has the largest experience with single-port surgery in the world. Dr. Desai has received many national and international awards for his research and has been an invited faculty member to many meetings world-wide. He is on the Editorial Board of Urology and is an invited reviewer to many national and international journals. Dr. Desai has over 150 papers in peer-reviewed literature and has edited two monographs.