Sanjay G. Patel MD

Sanjay G. Patel, MD, completed his undergraduate training in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He proceeded to complete medical school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and urologic surgery training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After completing a Society of Urologic Oncology fellowship at the University of Chicago, he joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. Dr. Patel treats all urologic cancers (adrenal, kidney, ureter, bladder, urethra, and testicular cancer) utilizing open, laparoscopic, and robotic surgery techniques. He has a particular interest in the use of minimally invasive robotic approaches to treat urologic malignancy and has extensive robotic surgery experience. He oversees the bladder instillation clinic where patients are given immunotherapy and chemotherapy directly into the bladder to treat superficial bladder cancer. He is also developing techniques to perform intracoroporeal robotic urinary diversions, where he is using minimally invasive robotic techniques to create bladders out of the intestinal tract. Dr. Patel works with the Department of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to treat urologic disease. He also has an interest in genetic and molecular profiling of cancers, and how that kind of profiling can be used to guide treatment of urologic cancer.