🔔Reminder🔔 Register for the 2024 UCSF GME Diversity Event followed by our Urology Residency Program's Virtual Open House! Registration links and meeting details are indicated in the attached thread. We can't wait to virtually meet all of you. 😉

Congrats to my co-resident, colleague and buddy Thomas Chi! You've made UCSFUrology a better place for all of us and you will be dearly missed. Congrats UAB Urology on a great hire!

We are so thrilled for Dr. Chi to join UAB Urology as their Dept Chair! ✨ Thomas Chi your excellence in education, clinical expertise, creative drive, kindness & leadership have helped to shape UCSFUrology. We are forever grateful.  23 years!! You will be greatly missed!

Our latest work out in Journal of Urology - we (Hiren V. Patel, MD, PhD Benjamin Breyer et al. from TURNS) show that social deprivation index at the zip code level is independently associated with stricture recurrence post-urethroplasty. Link: doi.org/10.1097/ju.000… #SDOH #urology UCSFUrology

Don't forget to register for the UCSF GME Diversity Event followed by our Urology Residency Program Virtual Open House on Thursday, August 8th, 2024 from 5:00pm-7:00pm PST. Details to register for the events are indicated in the attached thread. #urologyunbound #sau #aua #urology

Active Surveillance Patients International (ASPI) has presented its third annual Dr. Gerald Chodak Award to Pioneers in Active Surveillance (AS) to Dr. Peter Carroll. Congratulations! ✨ Carroll, Peter urology.ucsf.edu/news/all/20240…

David B Bayne gives a great DEI historical perspective at #WCET24 Endourological Society . Easy to forget that craniology as a strategy to rationalize racial and gender differences was done as recently as 100 yrs ago! Act with intention: it’s how to move the needle. UCSFUrology

Excited to share our work UCSFUrology in Journal of Endourology on applying ML methods to 24-hr urine data to predict kidney stone recurrence. While not yet ready for clinical use, it provides a proof of concept for future tools that will transform patient care. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39121452/

David B. Bayne MD, MPH Named Chief of Urology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) Congratulations! ✨David B Bayne urology.ucsf.edu/news/all/20240…

I am very proud of the superstar postdoc Haojun Yang, who discovered how to translation control underlying fasting and ketogenic diet in health and cancer. nature.com/articles/s4158…

The gloves came off as Dean Assimos and Marshall Stoller ramped up their arguments. They are paragons of being able to have rational conversations about different perspectives and still be friends. Role models. In bolo ties. #WCET24 Endourological Society UCSFUrology UAB Urology

Great to witness titans Dr. Dean Assimos and Dr. Marshall Stoller in their “Battle of the Bolos.” Might have to surprise Dr. Stoller by wearing a bolo tie to clinic one day! #WCET24 UCSFUrology

PSMA PET/CT radioligand infusions for primary prostate cancer may benefit from selective prostatic arterial infusion rather than intravenous infusion. UCSF IR UCSFUrology UCSF Pathology Xiao Wu Hao Nguyen Matt Cooperberg Carroll, Peter Thomas Hope bit.ly/46RT67a

This spring, co-hosted the 4th Annual CPCC/UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer with the California Prostate Cancer Coalition. Experts from UCSF Health UCSFUrology covered a range of topics, all videos are online for viewing via UCTV. ow.ly/fvkY50SV7SZ

Unique and fun experience working on this paper—now out in JMIR Publications! We used ChatGPT to perform qualitative analysis and compared results with humans. Man vs. Machine - is AI the future of qual analysis?Benjamin Breyer Hiren V. Patel, MD, PhD Rachel Schwartz @gregamend_md jmir.org/2024/1/e56500

Excited to see 2 Intuitive DaVinci Xi’s with integrated beds being setup UCSF Health new Bayfront Out-Patient Surgery Center in time for next week’s opening!!! UCSF Surgery UCSFUrology UCSF Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences UCSF Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr

Congrats to mekhail anwar, Matt Cooperberg, Michael Evans and Laura Waller on securing up to $15M from ARPA-H for the VISION project! This tiny scanner will detect cancer cells during surgery and remove them in real time. @UCSFPharmacy Berkeley Engineering Berkeley Lab tiny.ucsf.edu/Ex8wVY

Our Lessening Incontinence with Low-impact Activity (LILA) team funded by NIDDK NIH Women's Health is delighted to share the initial findings of our multisite RCT of pelvic yoga vs physical conditioning in older women with urinary incontinence in Annals of Int Med : acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

Pelvic floor yoga was not found to be superior to general physical conditioning in reducing urinary incontinence episodes, according to data from a recent study. Alison Huang, MD, MAS UCSFUrology #urology #urologist urologytimes.com/view/pelvic-fl…

Join us for our next Grand Rounds with our Jack W. McAninch Visiting Professor, Dr. Christopher Gonzalez! Loyola Urology 🗓️ Wednesday, September 11, 2024 ⏰ 7 AM-8 AM PDT 💻 Zoom registration: tinyurl.com/UrologyGrandRo…