The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Board of Urology (ABU) are jointly spearheading a pioneering initiative to advance educational outcome assessment in urology residency training. This initiative entails formulating specific urology-specific expectations with regards to the six core competencies and defining the levels of performance…
Philipp Dahm, MD, MHSc, an associate professor and director of clinical research for the department of urology and the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, is one of the recipients of the 2009 Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award for his proposal “Evidence-based Decision-Making in…
In a new partnership with Winter Haven Hospital, UF Urology is establishing a new multidisciplinary urology center. The Winter Haven-based center will serve as an extension of the programs of the Department, providing necessary patient care, promoting healthcare education and advancing medical research for the people of Winter…
The University of Florida College of Medicine has recognized Dr. Chester Algood, Clinical Assistant Professor and Medical Director in the Department of Urology, as a 2009/2010 Exemplary Teacher. His award is the result of a peer review process conducted in the fall, and commemorates his exemplary contribution toward the College’s…
Dr. Sijo Parekattil, Director of Robotic Microsurgery, has been asked by the National Medical Association, the leading medical society for African American physicians, to present two lectures on the use of robotic assistance for complex microsurgical procedures. The talks will focus on the anatomic basis and novel treatment…
Philipp Dahm, MD, MHSc, associate professor and co-director of the urology residency program, recently served as editor, with Roger Dmochowski, MD from Vanderbilt University, for a ground-breaking new text on Evidence-based Urology. Published by Wiley and available in July 2010,” Evidence-based Urology” provides up-to-date information on the appropriateness…
Dr. Benjamin Canales, Assistant Professor of Urology, was awarded a five-year, $750,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study the relationship between obesity, gastric bypass surgery, oxalate metabolism, and kidney stones. High levels of urinary oxalate levels (hyperoxaluria) has been shown to occur in up to 75%…
Dr. Li-Ming Su, David A. Cofrin Chair of Endourology and Chief of the Department’s Division of Robotic & Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery, recently served as editor of a comprehensive text on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Prostate Cancer is a…
University of Florida urologist Scott Gilbert, M.D., M.S., and colleagues at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas Medical Branch, evaluated national patterns of how doctors prescribed a hormone treatment called androgen deprivation therapy, before and after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid lowered the associated…
The Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute & OB/GYN Women’s Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic will name its prestigious best reproductive medicine research intern award by one of our faculty members. The “Dr. Sijo Parekattil Award for Excellence in Reproductive Research” is given to the most…
