advisors & clinical sites

Nizhny Novgorod Medical Academy
Natalia Gladkova, Ph.D., M.D., Sr. Scientist, Clinical Director

Dr. Gladkova is Full Professor of the Medical Imaging Department at Nizhny Novgorod Medical Academy. She is a winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology. Dr. Gladkova is also the Leading Researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences. She guides clinical studies worldwide and has participated in six international clinical studies including The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and has contributed to over 110 scientific publications.

 

George Washington University
*Michael Manyak, M.D.

Dr. Manyak is Professor of Urology and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC). His research interests include the expression and regulation of a protein that inhibits cancer metastasis, monoclonal antibody use for detection of prostate cancer metastasis, surgical simulation with virtual reality, and other applications of medical biotechnology

 

Baylor College of Medicine
*Seth Lerner, M.D.

Seth E. Lerner, MD, a urologist specializing in urologic oncology, is a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and Director of the Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center Prostate Program. He has received numerous awards throughout his career and has published over 30 articles in the files of Urologic Oncology.

 

Weill College of Medicine at Cornell University
*Douglas Scherr, M.D.

Dr. Douglas Scherr is a Board-certified urologist who currently serves as Assistant Professor of Urology at the Weill College of Medicine at Cornell University and is the Clinical Director of Urologic Oncology at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. His ongoing research efforts in the urology field have led to many professional honors and numerous publications. He is a recognized expert in the use of robotic (da Vinci) surgery for prostratectomy, renal and bladder cancer.

 

Cleveland Clinic
*Eric Klein, M.D.

Trained at the University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Dr. Eric Klein is Section Head of Urologic Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic. His research interests include prostate cancer, nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy, testis cancer, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, renal and bladder cancer.

 

University of Munich (Universitat Munchen)

*Herbert Stepp

 

Herbert Stepp, Ph.D., Laser-Forschungslabor, Klinikum der Universitat Munchen, Grosshadern, Germany, engages in research on tissue fluorescence diagnosis, photodynamic therapy, and other methods of optical imaging.

 

Florida Celebration Hospital

*Vipul Patel, M.D.

Vipul Patel, M.D. is Medical Director, Florida Hospital Global Robotics Institute at Florida Hospital Celebration Health, and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Robotic Surgery.  Dr. Patel is an internationally recognized expert in minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic urologic surgery. His clinical interests involve urologic cancer and laparoscopic reconstruction with special emphasis on the care of patients with prostate and kidney cancer.

 

* Clinical Advisory Council member

Niris clinical evaluation sites (current and former)

Baylor University - The Methodist Hospital	Seth Lerner, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic	Jerome Belinson, M.D. Gregory Zuccaro, M.D. Jihad Kaouk, M.D. Eric Klein, M.D. Amr Fergany, M.D. Indibir Gill, M.D.
George Washington University	Jason Zara, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University	Le -Ming Su, M.D.
MD Anderson	Anne Gillenwater, M.D. Grossman, M.D.
New York Presbyterian	Dix Poppas, M.D. Ash Tewari, M.D. Douglas Scherr, M.D.
Celebration Health/Florida Hospital	Vipul Patel, M.D.
University of California Irvine/Beckman Laser Institute	Brian Wong, M.D. Petra Wilder-Smith, Ph.D., Ph.D.
University Hospitals of Cleveland	The late Martin Resnick, M.D. Donald Bodner, M.D. Ed Cherullo, M.D. Lee Ponsky, M.D.
University of Pittsburgh	Constance Chu, M.D.
University of Innsbruck	Georg Bartsch, M.D. Hannes Steiner, Ph.D.
University of Munich	Herbert Stepp, Ph.D. Alexander Karl, M.D.
University of New Mexico	Wayne Kuang, M.D.
University of Vienna	Joerg Schmidbauer, M.D.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center	Stephen Brassel, M.D.