Dr. Alexandre Zlotta

Dr. Alexandre Zlotta is an internationally renowned uro-oncologic surgeon specializing in treating cancers of the bladder and prostate. He was recruited to Mount Sinai Hospital from Brussels, Belgium in 2006. Among his many accomplishments, he was awarded the 2000 European Association of Urology Crystal Matula Award, which is given to the most promising European urologist under the age of 40.

Dr. Alexandre Zlotta is a Professor in the Department of Surgery (Urology) at the University of Toronto, Director of Uro-Oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital, staff surgeon at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre -Toronto General Hospital / University Health Network and Director of the Uro-Oncology Fellowship Program at the University of Toronto. He is a Consulting Editor for European Urology, the leading urology journal world-wide and is on the editorial board of several other international journals.

In addition to his clinical background, Dr. Zlotta has an extensive successful research career in both clinical and translational research in bladder and prostate cancer in a multi-institutional, international setting. He leads the Bladder Cancer Research Program at The University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital. He is the Principle Investigator or co-Principle Investigator of several large-scale international research projects and has established several multi-institutional research programs in Toronto with centres in Canada, US, UK, Switzerland, Spain, Japan and Russia. He has been a board member of the Scientific Committee of the European Association of Urology, the European Society of Oncological Urology, the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Association of Urology, the Belgian National College of Oncology and member of the National Cancer Institute of Canada- Prevention Initiative. He is currently a steering Committee Member of the North American Bladder Cancer Think Tank, BCAN.

He received in 2012 the Platinum Award of the European Association of Urology.