Jihad Kaouk MD, FACS, FRCS (Hon)

Dr. Jihad Kaouk is an American board-certified Urologist and director of the Center of Robotic and Image Guided Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological Institute. He also serves as professor of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, vice chair for Surgical Innovations and chair holder for the Zegarac-Pollock Endowed Chair in laparoscopic and robotic surgery.

In innovations, he has performed several first ever done surgical procedures, including the first robotic single port surgery through the belly button (2008), first completely transvaginal kidney removal (2009) and first robotic perineal prostatectomy (2014). Dr. Kaouk holds 6 USA patents for medical devices used during partial nephrectomy and in robotic surgery.

Since 2005 Dr. Kaouk has served on committees at the national and local levels. He served in the American Urological Association’s (AUA) Urologic Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imaging Task Force (2005–2008) and on the Guidelines for the Management of Small Renal Masses committee (2006–2010). Dr Kaouk served as chairman of the AUA New Technology and Imaging committee and is past president of Society of Urologic Robotic Surgery (SURS). He is editor-in-chief of Urology Video Journal.

Dr. Kaouk has lectured in 180 scientific meetings, chaired 34 urologic meetings and performed live surgery in 18 medical centers worldwide. He authored 520 peer-reviewed publication, 26 book chapters and hundreds of abstracts and surgical movies. Dr Kaouk received 32 honors and awards including the Cleveland Clinic Innovator Award twice, Teacher of the Year Award and Endourology Best Fellowship Program Director Award (2017).

He holds memberships with the AUA, Endourological Society, Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) and Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS). He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and recently received an Honorary Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow).