Dr. RAJIV K. SINGAL

Dr. Singal is currently the Interim Chief of Surgery at Michael Garron Hospital.  He was previously the Head, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery at the Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) from 2001 until 2012.   Dr Singal also holds the rank of Associate Professor within the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He supervises the Clinical Endourology Fellowship program at MGH under the umbrella of the University of Toronto and also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees. He has supervised the Clinical Endourology Fellowship since 2003.  His clinical interests include the surgical management of urinary stones, minimally invasive and robotic urological surgery and the surgical treatment of genitourinary malignancies including prostate and kidney cancer. Dr Singal started the Davinci robotic surgical program at MGH in 2012 and leads that program jointly with Sunnybrook Hospital.

Dr. Singal is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1990 (9T0). After a surgical internship at Mount Sinai Hospital he entered the urology Residency Program at the University of Toronto and obtained his certification with the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1995. He then did a one-year clinical and research fellowship in Endourology and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (kidney stone diseases) at the University of Western Ontario. He joined the surgical staff at Michael Garron Hospital in December 1995 and has been in active practice at the hospital since July 1996. Dr. Singal has held various leadership positions at MGH including President of the Medical Staff Association in 2003-4 and has served on various committees over the years including Chair of the Infection Control and Laser Safety Committees. He has published several articles in his areas of interest. Dr. Singal is a principal investigator in several ongoing clinical research studies for diseases of the prostate. Dr Singal also has an active interest in global health inequity as it relates to scaling urologic surgical services in the developing world.  He has worked in Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Jamaica and China.

Dr Singal remains proud of his long association with Michael Garron Hospital