Saum Ghodoussipour is a Urologic Oncologist and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. His clinical areas of expertise include complex open and robotic surgeries of the pelvis and retroperitoneum. This includes removal of the bladder (radical cystectomy) with reconstruction of the urinary tract to maximize functional recovery, nerve-sparing procedures to maintain sexual function and fertility, advanced vascular techniques for invasive tumors and open extraperitoneal procedures to hasten recovery. His research is focused on methods to facilitate treatment decisions for patients before and after surgery, surgical techniques to optimize oncologic and functional outcomes and the development and implementation of perioperative care pathways to enhance recovery after surgery.