Dr. Rajveer Purohit: Gender Affirming Surgeon & Reconstructive Urologist

Dr. Rajveer Purohit is the Director of Voiding Dysfunction and Reconstructive Urology and Senior Faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He is experienced performing over 700 complex reconstructive surgical procedures including urethroplasty for urethral strictures with grafts and flaps, gender affirming surgery including vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty and phalloplasty, treatment of pelvic mesh and radiation complications.

Education

Dr. Purohit graduated Magna Cum Laude from Williams College and earned his medical degree (MD) and Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Columbia University before completing his surgical internship and urology residency at the University of California in San Francisco. While there he trained with one of the pioneers of male urethral reconstruction and then completed a fellowship with Dr. Jerry Blaivas in pelvic reconstruction and voiding dysfunction.

Awards & Recognitions

He has been chosen by his colleagues for inclusion in Castle Connolly’s Best Doctors and listed yearly in New York Magazine’s Best Doctors in New York City. He has been awarded the Pfizer Scholars in Urology, AUA/Praecis Gerald P. Murphy Scholar, Society of Medicine and Reproductive Urology Travel Scholar award, a California Urology Foundation Grant and an Arnold P. Gold Fellowship and multiple Patient Choice and Compassionate Doctor awards.

Affiliations

Dr. Purohit is a member of the following associations & organizations:

• American Board of Urology
• Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS)
• World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
• American Urological Association

Dr. Purohit continues to actively research and publish on a variety of topics in pelvic reconstruction and urology.

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Contact

Rajveer Purohit, MD, MPH
445 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10075
(212) 241-4812