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Robert Svatek, M.D.

Practice Locations

  • Genitourinary Oncology - Mays Cancer Center
    210-450-1000
  • Urology - Medical Arts & Research Center - MARC
    210-450-9600
  • Urology - Robert B. Green Campus - Downtown
    210-450-9600
Svatek@uthscsa.edu

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Specialties

    • Urology
    • Urology Oncology

Other Languages Spoken

  • Spanish
Robert Svatek, M.D.

Dr. Robert Svatek was born and raised in Wharton, a small town approximately 60 miles southwest of Houston in the gulf coast region of Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin for undergraduate training and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for medical school. He then completed his urology residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Following residency, he completed a 3-year fellowship in urologic oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. While there, he also earned his master of science in clinical research investigation at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine. He was then recruited to the department of urology at UT Health San Antonio in 2010, to build a bladder cancer center of excellence.

Dr. Svatek is recognized nationally as an expert in the management of superficial and advanced bladder cancer. Treatment of superficial bladder cancer requires careful, meticulous detail and adherence to surveillance regimens. It requires diligence in the administration of proper standardized therapy, but treatment regimens must also be individualized. Expertise in the management of advanced bladder cancer requires proper timing and coordination of multiple treatment modalities available to treat the disease including surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Thus, Dr. Svatek works closely with other subspecialists to provide the optimal therapy for patients.

Dr. Svatek is one of the top five highest-volume bladder cancer surgeons in the United States, performing over 60 bladder removal procedures (cystectomies) yearly. He provides state-of-the-art surgical options, including robotic-assisted and open approaches, as well as all available urinary diversion options, including ileal conduit and continent diversions (Indiana pouch and neobladder). Dr. Svatek has developed a collaborative care pathway here in San Antonio with exceptional precision in the pre-operative and post-operative management of patients. Dr. Svatek aims to provide the people of south and southwest Texas with the highest level of expertise and compassionate care.

Research

Dr. Robert Svatek is a surgeon-scientist with clinical expertise in early and late-phase clinical trials and urologic cancers. His laboratory expertise is in cancer immunology with an emphasis on understanding the immunopathologic basis of urothelial carcinoma and development of novel immunotherapeutic agents. Research conducted in his lab is rapidly translated into novel clinical trials. Current projects include chemokine signaling mechanisms driving bladder cancer growth and response to immunotherapy, role of innate immune cells including natural killer cells and gamma delta T cells in tumor immunology, significance of regulatory T cells in bladder cancer pathology, and mechanisms underlying BCG immunotherapy.

Research Area/Field of Study: Cancer Immunology

Sub Field of Study: Urothelial cancer

Specific Field of Study: T cell and Natural kill cell mechanisms in cancer immunology 

Related Diseases: urothelial carcinoma, melanoma, breast cancer, among other cancers

Research Techniques: Genetically modified mouse models, flow and mass cytometry, immunotherapuetics, double humanized mouse models, Elispot, adoptive immune cell transfers among other immunologic research techniques

 

Education

Medical School: 
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Residency: 
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Fellowship: 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Qualifications

Board Certification:
  • American Board of Urology

Research Interests

Clinical Trials, Genitourinary Cancer, Immunology, mTOR Pathway

Co-Leader, Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics

Dr. Robert Svatek's research profile

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Media

Super Doctors Texas 2020, San Antonio Magazine Top Doctors 2022, Super Doctors Texas 2021, SA Scene 23
More about this provider

  • Voelcker Fund gives $450,000 for bladder cancer studies
  • UT Medicine San Antonio places faculty on top doctors lists
  • 1st randomized study compares robotic, open procedures for bladder cancer
  • Svatek Lab Publishes In Journal of Immunotherapy for Cancer


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