Mani Menon

Mani Menon (born 1948) is an Indian-American urologist whose work helped lay the foundation for modern robotic cancer surgery. He trained in medicine at JIPMER in India and later became chairman of the urology department at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester at the age of 34. Early in his career he developed a method for measuring androgen receptors in the human prostate, helped introduce intra-operative ultrasonography into the management of kidney stones, and devised ion chromatography methods for urinary citrate and oxalate. He is the founding director of the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he established what is described as the first cancer-oriented robotics program in the world, and he is known for robotic surgery for prostate, kidney and bladder cancers and for robotic kidney transplantation. His honours include the Gold Cystoscope Award, the Hugh Hampton Young award, the Keyes Medal and the B.C. Roy award.