Dr. Michael A. Palese is the Chair of Urology at Mount Sinai Downtown, Vice Chairman of Operations for the Department of Urology in the Mount Sinai Health System & Professor of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  He received his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and Medical Degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.  He completed his urology residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, a research year at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and a robotic and laparoscopic fellowship at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. 

He serves as Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology for the Mount Sinai Medical System.  He is an experienced robotic, laparoscopic and endoscopic surgeon having performed thousands of cases for various kidney and prostate disorders.  He established the robot surgery program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2004 and helped to pioneer its use in kidney cancer and kidney disease.  He performed the first robotic partial nephrectomy, robotic radical nephrectomy, robotic pyeloplasty, robotic adrenalectomy and robotic donor nephrectomy at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.  He also performed the world's first robotic single port (SP) donor nephrectomy.  He also specializes in the latest techniques for the minimally invasive treatment of kidney stone disease including laser, shock wave and percutaneous procedures.

He is an expert in treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and performs the Greenlight and Holmium laser procedures as well as Urolift, Rezum & Robotic simple prostatectomy.

He was a faculty member of the American Urological Association’s Basic Laparoscopy Course and has served as the course director for the American Urological Association’s Advanced Laparoscopy Course.  He is the course director for the Advanced Workshop in Urology held at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and also has a prestigious fellowship in minimally invasive surgery.  He has published numerous peer reviewed articles and several book chapters; presented many abstracts at national and international meetings and received several prestigious national awards.