{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Mani Menon | image = File:Mani Menon VGR.JPG | caption = Dr. Mani Menon at VGR 2012 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1948|07|09}} in Trichur, Kerala, India | occupation = Director of the Vattikuti Urology Institute, Detroit, Michigan | spouse = Dr. Shameem Menon | children = | alma_mater = Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research | website = [https://www.henryford.com/physician-directory/m/menon-mani www.henryford.com/physician-directory/m/menon-mani] }}
'''Mani Menon''', born 9 July 1948 in Trichur, India, is an American urologist whose work has helped to lay the foundation for modern Robotic cancer surgery. He is the founding director and the Raj and Padma Vattikuti Distinguished Chair of the Vattikuti Urology Institute at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, where he established the first cancer-oriented robotics program in the world. Menon is widely regarded for his role in the development of robotic surgery techniques for the treatment of patients with prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers,<ref name=crain>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070325/SUB/70323027|title=American Dreamers: Mani Menon, 58 | Crain's Detroit Business}}</ref><ref name=wjr>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wjr.com/Article.asp?id=95799|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011193906/http://www.wjr.com/Article.asp?id=95799|url-status=dead|title="Robots in the OR" - WJR Radio|archivedate=11 October 2007}}</ref><ref name=newsweek>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2005/12/11/cutting-edge.html |title=Newsweek |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=12 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014075424/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2005/12/11/cutting-edge.html |archive-date=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as for the development of robotic kidney transplantation.
Menon is the recipient of the Gold Cystoscope Award (American Urological Association, 2001), Hugh Hampton Young award (American Urological Association, 2011), the Keyes Medal (American Association of Genitourinary surgeons, 2016), the prestigious B.C. Roy award (Awarded by the President of India, for his achievements in the fields of urology and robotics).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/B.C.-Roy-awards-for-55-doctors/article15252984.ece | title=B.C. Roy awards for 55 doctors | date=2 July 2008 | newspaper=The Hindu | accessdate=12 October 2018 }}</ref>
== Early years and urological career == He started his medical journey from JIPMER in 1964, where he did his MBBS. Menon developed a novel technique to measure androgen receptors in the human prostate.<ref name=hfhs>{{Cite web|url=http://www.henryfordhealth.org/body.cfm?id=47772|title=Bio - Henry Ford Health System|access-date=26 June 2008|archive-date=17 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217105317/http://henryfordhealth.org/body.cfm?id=47772|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the age of 34, Menon became the chairman of the Urology department at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.<ref name=hfhs/> During early career, his major contributions were in the field of kidney stone disease where he helped develop the use of intra-operative ultrasonography as an aid to renal stone management <ref>{{cite journal|pmid=6795364|year=1981|last1=Marshall|first1=F. F.|title=A comparison of ultrasonography and radiography in the localization of renal calculi: Experimental and operative experience|journal=The Journal of Urology|volume=126|issue=5|pages=576–80|last2=Smith|first2=N. A.|last3=Murphy|first3=J. B.|last4=Menon|first4=M|last5=Sanders|first5=R. C.|doi=10.1016/s0022-5347(17)54634-0}}</ref> and also devised methods to quantify citrate and oxalate levels in urine using ion chromatography.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=6854790|year=1983|last1=Menon|first1=M|title=Urinary citrate excretion in patients with renal calculi|journal=The Journal of Urology|volume=129|issue=6|pages=1158–60|last2=Mahle|first2=C. J.|doi=10.1016/s0022-5347(17)52618-x}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|pmid=7057492|year=1982|last1=Mahle|first1=C. J.|title=Determination of urinary oxalate by ion chromatography: Preliminary observation|journal=The Journal of Urology|volume=127|issue=1|pages=159–62|last2=Menon|first2=M|doi=10.1016/s0022-5347(17)53652-6}}</ref>
==See also== *Vattikuti Urology Institute *International Robotic Urology Symposium
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://manimenon.com Dr. Mani Menon's website]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Menon, Mani}} Category:American surgeons Category:Indian emigrants to the United States Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Scientists from Thrissur Category:Fellows of the American College of Surgeons Category:Recipients of the St Paul's Medal