Robert Ira Carey MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. Robert Carey is a clinical associate professor in the Florida State University College of Medicine and a robotic surgeon at the Urology Treatment Center of Sarasota, Florida State School of Medicine. A frequent lecturer on urologic oncology and a consulting editor for the Journal of Robotic Surgery, he trains other surgeons nationwide in the use of the da Vinci robotic surgical system.

In 2006 he received first prize at the World Congress of Endourology for his essay describing the direct, real-time temperature monitoring for radiofrequency ablation of renal tumors. He is listed as a top surgeon for urological surgery in the Guide to America's Top Surgeons.

Dr. Robert Carey received his M.D. degree at the Medical College of Georgia. His residency training in surgery and urology, and a fellowship in robotic surgery, laparoscopy, and endourology, were completed at the University of Miami. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he received a B.S. in chemistry and B.A. in foreign languages at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Dr. Carey was awarded a National Institutes of Health Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University, and he served as an assistant professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and at the University of Georgia. He holds multiple patents for the automation of peptide and protein synthesis, using robotic systems.