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Visit our Faculty, Residents or Staff directories to the left for more information about the great team at the Department of Urology.

Welcome our recent recruits...

Ashay Patel, DO

Dr. Patel will be doing inpatient consultations at University Hospital, University Hospital East, Ross Heart Hospital and at the James Cancer Hospital.  He is a graduate of the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City, MO. He completed his surgical and and urologic residency programs at the OSU Medical Center, Columbus.





Geoffrey N. Box, MD

Dr. Geoffrey N. Box is assistant professor of urology at The Ohio State University.  He completed his residency training at The Ohio State University in 2006.  He then went to the University of California, Irvine where he completed a two-year fellowship in Laparoscopy, Endourology, Image-Guided Therapy and Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopy.  He is currently the Director of Laparoscopic Urology Surgery and will be responsible for the development and oversight of educational and research programs in this area.  In addition he will be establishing and providing oversight of a Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Fellowship.  His clinical  interests include the minimally invasive treatment of genitourinary disease using laparoscopic and robotic techniques with a focus on kidney and prostate cancers.  His research interests include the development of new surgical techniques to reduce the invasiveness of surgery.  Along those lines, he has been among the pioneers in urologic NOTES (natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery) and current serves as the co-chairman of the Urology NOTES Working Group.


Ahmad Shabsigh, MD

Dr. Ahmad Shabsigh is assistant professor of urology at The Ohio State University.  He is a board-eligible urologist, subspecialized in urologic cancer.  After obtaining his medical degree, Dr. Shabsigh, joined the molecular urology research team at Columbia University in New York.  He worked extensively on understanding the impact of androgen deprivation on angiogenesis and prostate cancer.  He then continued his medical training in the department of surgery and the department of urology at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.  Focusing on urologic cancer he then joined the fellowship program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.   His clinical interests emphasize a balanced and multimodality approach for the treatment and cure of genitourinary malignancies, including testis, kidney, bladder, and prostate cancers, implementing minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic techniques in addition to standard surgical approaches.  His research interests include the development of clinical systems to improve quality of care and patient reported outcomes.  In addition he has special interest in translational research bridging the gap between bench research and clinical practice.