Professor Ami Abraham Sidi
Urologist-surgeon. Professor of medicine and senior physician of the urology and urologic surgery department. A leading practicing specialist in minimally invasive treatment of prostate cancer with many years of clinical experience.
Professor Ami Abraham Sidi is an outstanding Israeli physician practicing in urology, uro-oncology and reconstructive urologic surgery. He is an expert of international standing and an innovator whose developments are widely used in other countries. He is a professor in the Department of Urologic Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Ami Abraham Sidi is a virtuoso of the surgical treatment of urological diseases in men and women, including congenital and acquired defects of the genitourinary system. The professor actively develops, introduces and refines new strategies for surgical interventions. He is credited with unique minimally invasive operations for resection of prostate cancer, reconstructive procedures for urinary incontinence in women, and targeted tumor excision within neoplastic tissue without affecting healthy areas.
In addition to clinical practice, the professor conducts research. One of Ami Abraham Sidi's main professional interests is the study and optimization of gene therapy methods for bladder cancer. During his career he has received numerous awards, grants, fellowships and other prizes.
Professor Ami Abraham Sidi graduated with honors from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in 1979. He completed his internship and clinical residency in urology at leading Israeli clinics. In 1983 he went to the University of Minnesota for a fellowship, where he also pursued doctoral studies and worked for six years. He was awarded the title of professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and at Tel Aviv University (Department of Urologic Surgery, 1991). He received additional specialization in neurourology.
Professor Sidi is a former and current honorary member of a number of professional societies:
- Israel Medical Association
- Israeli Urological Association
- American Urodynamics Society
- American Medical Association
- National Association of Physicians of the USA
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- National Impotence Study Society
- American Urological Association
- North American urological association
- American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons
- Minnesota Urological Society
The professor is the author and co-author of more than 40 publications, textbooks and monographs reviewed by authoritative medical journals worldwide. Landmark works include "Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for solid tumors of 7 centimeters or more", "Combined single-port nephroureterectomy" and "New methods of closed laparoscopic nephrectomy", among others.
Despite his long career and his place in the old school of physicians, Ami Abraham Sidi is an advocate of progressive medical technologies who is constantly developing innovative methods of treatment.
The professor's expertise includes:
- Diagnosis and treatment (conservative and surgical) of malignant tumors of the genitourinary system
- Minimally invasive and microsurgical resection of tumors
- Reconstructive and plastic operations on the urinary tract in men and women
- Neurourological operations (in particular for neurogenic urinary incontinence)
- Restorative surgical interventions after traumatic childbirth
- Non-surgical destruction of prostate cancer tumors
- Microsurgical resection of the prostate
- Instrumental and surgical treatment of overactive bladder
- Surgical procedures for metastatic cancer
- Gene therapy of bladder cancer
Ami Abraham Sidi continues his research and trains young physicians, passing on his invaluable experience. His plans include further intensive development of minimally invasive urologic surgery and uro-oncology.