General Info

Dr. Abaza is an assistant professor in the Department of Urology. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois and completed his residency at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. As director of Robotic Urologic Surgery and co-director of Ohio State's Center for Advanced Robotic Surgery, Dr. Abaza has a practice dedicated solely to robotic surgery and is one of the few surgeons in the country with experience in robotic surgery not only for prostate cancer but also for bladder cancer, kidney cancer, reconstructive kidney and ureteral procedures, adrenal tumors, urinary diversion, as well as other new and innovative procedures. Dr Abaza continues to be passionate about teaching. He organized and is course director for an annual urology resident preceptorship in robotic urologic surgery, the only program of its kind where residents from around the country travel to OSU to learn about robotics. He is also director of a Robotic Urologic Surgery Fellowship, which offers one year of additional training dedicated to robotic surgery for new urology residency graduates. He has been course director for a laparoscopy course at the American Urological Association's annual meeting for the past three years and this year organized a three-hour panel session on robotic surgery for the upcoming meeting of the American College of Surgeons through the ACS Committee on Emerging Surgical Technology and Education on which he serves.