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David Shusterman, MD is the managing partner and head urologist at the Advanced Urologic Institute of New York. He has extensive experience in Robotic and minimally invasive surgery. He is an Associate Attending at The New York Hospital in Queens. He has special interest in Urologic-Oncology, prostate cancer, robotic and minimally invasive surgery. Dr. Shusterman is well trained on Robotic Prostatectomy and other minimally invasive robotic surgeries. His clinical interest involves urologic oncology with special emphasis on the care of patients with prostate, bladder and other urological cancers. He performs open, laparoscopic and robotic surgeries. He performs state of the art kidney sparing surgery by freezing or removing the cancer cells and sparing the rest of the kidney. He is also very skilled in diagnosing prostate cancer by using PSA and modern ultrasound guided biopsy techniques. Research Experience: Shusterman D, Foty R. The Cohesivity of Prostate Cancer Cell Lines to Microvascular Endothelial Cells is Inportant in Metastatic Spread Preented at the Ferdinand C. Valentine Essay Meeting. NY Section of AUA 2006 Wosnitzer M, Shusterman D, Barone JG. Bladder rupture in premature infant during voiding cystourethrography. Urology. 2005 Aug;66(2):432. Shusterman D, Hwang J. The impact of the patient-side assistant in the development of a robotic assisted prostatectomy program Presented at the Ferdinand C. Valentine Essay