A surgeon whose long career has been spent driving innovation in urologic cancer diagnosis and treatment, especially prostate cancer, has been selected to lead Northwell Health ’s urology service line. Samir S. Taneja, MD, has been appointed senior vice president, Northwell’s system chair of urology and chair of the Smith Institute for Urology .

Dr. Taneja will see patients at Northwell’s Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New Hyde Park and Northwell’s Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan as well as teach at the Zucker School of Medicine of Hofstra-Northwell . He joins Northwell from NYU Langone Health, where he spent 29 years and most recently served as vice chair of the Department of Urology, director of the Division of Urologic Oncology, a professor of ur

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