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'{{short description|Iranian-American urologist}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = David B. Samadi | image = Dr. David B. Samadi.JPG | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Iran | birth_name = | nationality = Americancnnv | education = B.S. [[Stony Brook University]]<br> M.D. [[Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University|SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine]]<br> [[Henri Mondor]] - Creteil, France<br> [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]] | occupation = [[Urologist]] Former Chairman of Urology Dept. at [[Lenox Hill Hospital]] [[Newsmax]] Medical Contributor | known_for = | networth = | children = | spouse = | parents = | website = {{website|http://samadimd.com/}} }} '''David B. Sam is''' an American [[urologist]], a [[Newsmax]] contributor, and the former Chairman of Urology and Chief of Robotic Surgery at [[Lenox Hill Hospital]]. ==Biography== Born and raised in the [[Persian Jewish]] community of Iran, at age 15 Samadi and his younger brother left in 1979 after the [[Iranian Revolution]]. They continued their education in Belgium and the UK before coming to the United States where Samadi completed high school in [[Roslyn, New York]]. He attended [[Stony Brook University]] and earned his degree in [[biochemistry]]. He earned his M.D from S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York in 1994, and completed his postgraduate training in urology at [[Montefiore Medical Center]] and in urology at [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]] in 1996 and Montefiore Medical Center in 2000. He completed an oncology fellowship in urology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2001 and a robotic radical prostatectomy fellowship at Henri Mondor Hospital Creteil in France under the mentorship of Professor Claude Abbou in 2002.<ref>{{cite news |first=Pranay |last=Gupte |date=January 17, 2006 |title=Doctor Discusses Plans To Perform Tele-Surgery |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/doctor-discusses-plans-to-perform-tele-surgery/25973/ |work=[[The New York Sun]]}}</ref> ==Career== He first practiced at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, then joined the faculty of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 2007 where he became the Vice Chair of the Department of Urology, and the Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery.<ref name=voiceNY>Fern Siman for Jewish Voice NY. July 10, 2013. [http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=4703:sitting-on-top-of-the-world-with-dr-david-samadi&Itemid=295 Sitting on Top of the World with Dr. David Samadi]</ref> In 2012, he was the highest paid doctor in New York City, earning $7.6 million.<ref>Melissa Klein for the NY Post. April 13, 2014 [https://nypost.com/2014/04/13/citys-hospital-specialists-are-raking-in-millions-of-dollars/ City’s hospital specialists are raking in millions of dollars]</ref> He invented the Samadi Modified Advanced Robotic Treatment for prostate cancer surgeries. The technique was designed to replace open surgery with a minimally invasive alternative using the da Vinci Surgical System.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://midhudson.mdnews.com/experience-matters-david-b-samadi-md-%E2%80%94-advancing-robotic-prostate-surgeries-worldwide|title=Experience Matters: David B. Samadi, MD — Advancing Robotic Prostate Surgeries Worldwide|author=Ferguson, Michael|date=13 October 2014|work=MD News}}</ref> In November 2019, Lenox Hill agreed to pay $12.3 million to settle a Medicare fraud lawsuit brought because Samadi performed multiple surgeries at the same time, leaving patients unsupervised by a urologist when he left one operating room for another; billing for unnecessary procedures; and inadequately supervised residents. The suit was the result of an investigation by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, [[Geoffrey Berman]], who characterized the approach as "assembly line medicine" in violation of Medicare and hospital regulations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2019/11/08/lenox-hill-hospital-will-shell-out-12-3m-for-submitting-fraudulent-claims-to-medicare/|title=Lenox Hill Hospital will shell out $12.3M for submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare|last=Saul|first=Emily|date=2019-11-08|website=New York Post|language=en|access-date=2019-11-09}}</ref> Patients were distressed to learn that Samadi was not actually performing their surgical procedures and was often not in the operating room, according to an investigation by ''[[the Boston Globe]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/12/star-surgeon-scrutinized-concurrent-procedures/YgyMjLLbxHjIZIbWCNtOMO/story.html|title=Star surgeon is scrutinized on concurrent procedures - The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Saltzman |first=Jonathan |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Federal prosecutors launch investigation of prominent surgeon who double-booked operations |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/10/05/federal-prosecutors-launch-investigation-of-prominent-surgeon-who-double-booked-operations/ |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |via=[[Boston.com]]|access-date=October 16, 2023}}</ref> In June 2020, He joined conservative news outlet [[Newsmax]] as a medical contributor.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Eggerton |first=John |date=June 8, 2020|title=Samadi Named Newsmax Medical Contributor|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/samadi-named-newsmax-medical-contributor|access-date=2020-11-29|website=Multichannel News|language=en}}</ref> He is currently director of men's health at [[St. Francis Hospital (Flower Hill, New York)|St. Francis Hospital]] in [[Flower Hill, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stfrancisheartcenter.chsli.org/mens-health|publisher=St. Francis Hospital|access-date=July 5, 2020|title=Men's Health}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.davidsamadi.com/}} {{authority control}} {{Commons category|David B. 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