Urology Fellows

ABHAY SINGH, MD FELLOW IN ENDOUROLOGY AND ROBOTIC SURGERY

Our Jefferson Urology Fellow in Endourology and Robotic Surgery for the 2020-2021 academic year is Abhay Singh, MD. Dr. Singh participated in the Endourology Society matching program. Born in Maryland he completed his undergraduate education at Duke University. While at Duke, he participated in the Army ROTC and was commissioned as an officer upon graduation. Dr. Singh then went on to receive his medical training at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. Dr. Singh became interested in Urology early in his medical training and his interest only grew over the remainder of medical school and he went on to complete his Urology residency at Duke University Hospital.

After residency, Dr. Singh served as a general urologist in the Army, first posted to Fort Benning in Georgia and then Fort Belvoir in Virginia. He was promoted to the rank of Major in 2015. As he completed his military commitment in 2020, he wanted to expand his robotic and endourological skills, and was excited to match with the Endourology endorsed fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University. His wife, Bhavana, is a medical oncologist in the Lehigh Valley.

ASAF SHVERO, MD ENDOUROLOGY FELLOW

The Department of Urology at Sidney Kimmel Medical School of Thomas Jefferson University is pleased to welcome Dr. Asaf Shvero as a special one-year fellow in Endourology. His fellowship is supported by the Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer, Israel.

Dr. Shvero has recently completed his Urology Residency at Sheba Medical Center. He simultaneously completed an associate-degree in bioinformatics and computational biology. During his training, he had extensive exposure to diagnosing and treating patients with upper urinary tract diseases including nephrolithiasis, upper tract urothelial carcinoma and ureteral strictures. While at Sheba Medical Center, he helped facilitate the multi-center OLMYPUS trial, involving patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma being treated with thermo-sensitive gel enriched with Mitomycin-C recently FDA approved as Jelmyto®. Sheba Medical Center was the leading accrual center.

Dr. Shvero will join us for a one-year fellowship with Dr. Scott Hubosky as his primary mentor. After successful completion of the fellowship, he plans on returning to Israel and joining the academic faculty of the Department of Urology at Sheba Medical Center with an appointment at Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine. In this new role, he will be joining one of our previously trained fellows, Dr. Nir Kleinmann (class of 2013) who is currently President of the Israeli Endourological Society and has an extremely busy practice. Together, Nir and Asaf will continue to improve and optimize the endourologic care of urology patients in Israel in the Jefferson tradition. Dr. Shvero’s family will remain at home in Israel during his fellowship. His wife, Dana, is a practicing dentist in Israel and they have two sons, Ido and Oren as well as one daughter, Shir. Jefferson Urology 27