Aseem Shukla
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Aseem Shukla, MD
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| Residence | Philadelphia, USA |
| Nationality | United States/Indian |
| Alma mater |
University of Florida (B.S., 1990) University of South Florida College of Medicine (M.D., 1995) |
| Occupation | Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Associate Professor of Surgery(in Urology), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
Aseem Ravindra Shukla is the Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA and is an Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Shukla is the co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation.
Dr. Aseem Shukla completed undergraduate studies at the University of Florida and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. He then went on to do his residency in General Surgery and Urology at the same institution. Following that, he did his fellowship in pediatric urology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, consistently ranked the number one children's hospital in the United States.
Shukla completed residencies in general surgery and urology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and a fellowship in pediatric urology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Prior to returning to CHOP, he served as director of urology at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital and held associate professorships in urology and pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Shukla additionally served as the Residency Program Director of the University of Minnesota Department of Urology. At CHOP, Dr. Shukla is the Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery with a keen clinical and research interest in robotic-assisted laparoscopy, urinary reflux, hydronephrosis, urinary tract reconstruction, hypospadias and disorders of sexual differentiation.
Shukla is active in efforts to develop pediatric urology as a discipline globally. Since 2007, Shukla leads an annual complex pediatric urological surgery teaching course—The Bladder-Exstrophy and Epispadias Workshop—at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, India that is co-sponsored by International Volunteers in Urology and Hindu American Physicians in Seva. Shukla is also a volunteer surgeon for the Foundation for the Children of Iran, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 by Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, to help arrange medical and surgical treatment for Iranian children.
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