Dr. Sohrab Ali is a Canadian board certified and American board eligible urologist. He serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine specializing in Endourology and Minimally invasive Oncology. Born and raised in Pakistan, he moved to Canada in 2012 after completing his undergraduate and medical education at Shifa College of Medicine. Dr. Ali earned a master’s in science degree in 2016 at the University of Western Ontario, Canada where his research involved developing novel Drosophila Melanogastermodels for nephrolithiasis. He completed residency at the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2021. Following this, he completed two fellowships at the University of California, Irvine including a 2-year fellowship in Endourology, Laparoscopy and Robotic Surgery under the mentorship of Dr. Ralph Clayman and Dr. Jaime Landman and a 1-year fellowship in Robotic Surgery and Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology under the mentorship of Dr. David Lee.
Dr. Ali’s interests include stone disease and robotic oncologic surgery. He is an active researcher in the Curiosity and Innovation laboratory, including PI and Co-PI on multiple clinical trials including the use of Baking Soda for stone prevention and dissolution in calcium oxalate and uricacid stone formers plus the use of Indocyanine-green for mapping and preserving neuro-vascular bundles during radical prostatectomy. He also serves as the director of the UCI Urology Grandest Rounds program.
Areas of focus:
- Complex kidney stones disease
- Ureteropelvic junction obstruction, benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)
- Robotic & minimally invasive urologic oncology (kidney, adrenal, UTUC, prostate)