About Me
My interest in medicine began in the fifth grade. My mother had a master’s degree in public health and I would read over her shoulder, fascinated by her anatomy books. It was then that I decided I wanted to be a surgeon.
A few years later, I learned about an early acceptance program offered by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. I was accepted into the program in my senior year of high school and entered medical school after two years of college. I initially pursued neurosurgery, but a friend recommended urology. I liked the people in the field and was fascinated by the interaction of hormones and cancer within the prostate. I was fortunate to be allowed to conduct independent research in the department’s famous prostate cancer research laboratories and to have a world-renowned surgeon as my mentor, and so the course of my career as a surgeon in prostate cancer care and research was set.
When I first joined NYU Langone I focused broadly on urologic oncology, treating people with cancers of the prostate, kidney, bladder, and testis. Now, about 70 percent of my practice focuses on prostate cancer or the suspicion of prostate cancer.
The work I have been able to conduct at NYU Langone and its Perlmutter Cancer Center and Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center has transformed the field of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment by improving methods of prostate imaging, cancer detection, and disease localization. I strive to integrate new technologies into my practice to evolve the practice of oncology. This has allowed me to care for prostate cancer patients individually by avoiding surgery or radiation when not needed, and using new targeted approaches to treat the disease when possible. When conventional surgery is necessary, more than 90 percent of the surgical procedures I now perform are done laparoscopically with robotic assistance. This allows my patients to avoid large, open incisions, experience less pain and discomfort, and recover more quickly.
My clinical research focuses on the use of imaging to detect and treat prostate cancer. I pioneered the use of MRI to diagnose and pinpoint prostate cancer, and in MRI-guided focal ablative therapies that aim to destroy only the cancerous portion of the prostate. With the ability to precisely locate the cancer, patients no longer need to have the entire gland removed. Through ongoing improvements in imaging and constant integration of new technologies, we continue to evolve this approach to minimize the trauma of prostate cancer surgery.
I have authored more than 200 articles, 30 book chapters, and 6 textbooks and monographs on urologic cancer and surgery. In addition, I am the editor of Taneja’s Complications of Urologic Surgery: Prevention and Diagnosis, one of the most widely read textbooks in American urology.
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- cancer
- elevated prostate-specific antigen
- genitourinary neoplasm
- kidney cancer
- prostate cancer
Treatments
- bloodless surgery
- excision of prostate
- minimally invasive surgery
- mri ultrasound fusion guided biopsy
- partial excision of kidney
- prostate cancer focal therapy
- robotic assisted surgery
Credentials
Positions
- Professor, Department of Radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- James M. Neissa and Janet Riha Neissa Professor of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Leader, Genito-Urologic NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center
- Vice Chair, Department of Urology
- Co- Director, Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer
- Director, Urologic Oncology
Board Certifications
- American Board of Urology - Urology, 1999
Education and Training
- Residency, UCLA Medical Center, 1996
- Residency, UCLA Medical Center, 1992
- MD from Northwestern University, 1990
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Samir Taneja, MD does not accept insurance.
Locations and Appointments
NYU Langone Urology Associates
222 East 41st Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Research My Research
Interests
prostate cancer, MRI, MRI-targeted biopsy, focal therapy, prostate ablative surgery, High intensity Focused Ultrasound, HIFU, cryosurgery, biomarkers, biomarkers, biomarkers
Academic Contact
Academic office
222 East 41st Street
11th and 12th Floors
New York, NY 10017
Research Interests Timeline
Clinical Trials and Research Studies
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Prospective Multicenter Single-Arm Study of Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation for PrOstate CanceR (VAPOR 2 Study)
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A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF MAGNESIUM SULFATE AS AN ADJUNCTIVE ANALGESIC IN PROSTATE SURGERY
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A PHASE I/IB SINGLE ARM STUDY OF TWO FRACTION SBRT WITH DOMINANT LESION SIB FOR THE TREATMENT OF LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER
Publications
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Ghoreifi, Alireza; Gomella, Leonard; Hu, Jim C; Konety, Badrinath; Lunelli, Luca; Rastinehad, Ardeshir R; Salomon, Georg; Taneja, Samir; Tourinho-Barbosa, Rafael; Lebastchi, Amir H
Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases. 2024 Oct 23;
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Sawhney, Vyom; Huang, Richard; Huang, William C; Lepor, Herbert; Taneja, Samir S; Wysock, James
Urology. 2024 Sep 03;
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Mannas, Miles P; Deng, Fang-Ming; Ion-Margineanu, Adrian; Freudiger, Christian; Jones, Derek; Hoskoppal, Deepthi; Melamed, Jonathan; Wysock, James; Orringer, Daniel A; Taneja, Samir S
Urologic oncology. 2024 Aug 10;