Vaibhav Patel, MD

Vaibhav Patel, MD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology). He sees patients at The Ruttenberg Treatment Center and at Mount Sinai West, with a focus on genitourinary malignancies. He is also Assistant Director of Cancer Clinical Trials at Mount Sinai West. Dr. Patel completed his fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at Mount Sinai, serving as Chief Fellow in his final year. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine, also at Mount Sinai, and earned his medical degree from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. His research interests include development of novel therapeutics, particularly immune-based therapies, in genitourinary malignancies, and precision oncology in prostate cancer. Dr. Patel has numerous first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals such as CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Annals of Oncology, Nature Reviews Urology, and European Urology.