Chief Residents Ngoc-Bich Le, MD, and Lawrence Yeung, MD, have both been accepted to prestigious urology fellowship programs for the coming academic year. Dr. Le (PGY-5) has accepted a two-year Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery fellowship position with the UCLA Department of Urology. Dr. Yeung (PGY-6)…
Dr. Sijo Parekattil’s recent publication in the October 2009 edition of the Journal of Endourology, Video Technique of Robotic Vasovasostomy, was the subject of much discussion in the national and international press. Dr. Parekattil, Assistant Professor and Director of Male Infertility & Microsurgery, is offering the academic urology community…
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…
