Dr. Ash Tewari is the director of the Institute of Robotic Surgery and Prostate Cancer and the director of the Lefrak Institute of Robotic Surgery with the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NY.

Dr. Tewari sat down with DOTmed News to discuss robotic surgery. As an experienced robotic surgeon, he describes the various procedures that can be done using the robotic method, addresses some challenges of the technique and talks about patient reactions to the robotic method.

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Dr. Tewari also discusses developing robotic surgery research at his facility.

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