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American surgeon
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Male
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25 February 1952
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Harvard University
New York Medical College
University of California, San Francisco
The details
Biography
Introduction
Gary Onik (born February 25, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York City) is a medical doctor and inventor.He is known for ultrasound-guided procedures for treating cancer using cryosurgery.
Inventions
Gary Onik is the inventor of ultrasound-guided cryosurgery procedures for the prostate and for the liver.
Onik treated the first liver patients with cryosurgery in 1986 and the first patient with ultrasound-guided prostate cryosurgery in 1990. He developed techniques and instrumentation that have been integral to the minimally invasive treatment of cancer.