Dr. Pankaj Dangle has joined Children’s of Alabama as a pediatric urologist and has recently has recently established a pediatric robotic surgery program.
Robotic surgery allows specialists to perform surgery with tiny incisions and minimal effect on surrounding healthy tissue. Robotic surgery has several benefits, including a faster recovery time, less pain, little or no scarring, minimal blood loss, and a shorter hospital stay.
Dr. Dangle earned his medical degree from University of Mumbai, where he also completed training in general surgery and urology. He completed his urology residency at the University of Chicago and his pediatric urology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Dangle’s practice focuses on robotic surgery, complex hypospadias, disorders of sex development, vesicoureteral reflux, myelomeningocele, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, renal stone disease and urinary reconstruction. He also serves as an assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine Department of Urology.
He is from Mumbai, India, lived for last several years in Midwest, and lives in Homewood with his family.
He is passionate about pediatric urology, being a proud father, and he takes utmost interest in managing patients and their families through their illness with personalized care.