Roshan M. Patel, MS, MD

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, California

Roshan M. Patel, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Urology, Chief of the Division of Urology, and the Director of the Kidney Stone Center at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Patel specializes in kidney stones, kidney cancer, and robotic and laparoscopic surgeries. His clinical practice focuses on all aspects of minimally invasive urology procedures, including robotic, percutaneous, laparoscopic, ureteroscopic, and needle-ablative surgeries.

Dr. Patel earned his MS in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his medical degree at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. Dr. Patel then completed an internship in General Surgery and a residency in Urology at Boston University in Massachusetts. He then completed a fellowship in Laparoscopy, Endourology, Robotic Surgery, and Image Guided Therapy at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Patel’s research interests include outcomes-based studies on minimally invasive surgical techniques for kidney cancer. He is focused on evaluating the methodology used in percutaneous surgery for large kidney stones and regularly leads projects in the endourology lab that may change the way surgery is practiced. Dr. Patel has authored and co-authored over 160 publications in endourology, urolithiasis, and minimally invasive robotic surgery.