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We're in the New England Journal of Medicine. Linda Dairiki Shortliffe contributed an article in the July 21, 2011 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was a "clinical decisions" piece where she offered an opinion about treatment options. The audience then could vote for their preferred treatment for a 6-year-old girl with vesicoureteral reflux.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMclde1105791
We're on the current cover of the Journal of Endourology and Urology. Two of our residents Winnie Adams and Jen-Jane Liu are co-authors.
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Resident Research Awards. Congratulations to William Tu, MD, PhD, and Yue Peng, PhD, recipients of 2010 Urology Department Awards. Dr. Tu received the Lo Award for Best Resident Publication in 2010 for "Efficacy of c-Met Inhibitor for Advanced Prostate Cancer" Tu W, Zhu C, Clark C, Christensen JG, Sun Z BMC Cancer 10:556, 2010. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/556 Dr. Peng received the Packard Award for Best Postdoctoral Fellow Publication in 2010 for "A Novel Role for Protein Inhibitor of Activated STAT (PIAS) Proteins in Modulating Activity of Zimp7, a Novel PIAS-like Protein, in Androgen Receptor-mediated Transcription." Peng Y, Lee J, Zhu C, Sun Z Journal of Biological Chemistry 285:11465, 2010 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20159969
LPCH's robot and how it relates to pediatric urology was featured on KTVU Sunday June 26, 2011.
Stanford Urology, Best of Posters, 2011 AUA Annual Meeting. Stanford Urology received the Best of Poster award at the American Urological Association 2011 Annual meeting. Liam MacLeod, medical student (pictured), Raymond Balise and Linda Shortliffe, professor of urology, recieved the Best of Poster award for the moderated poster, "Ultrasonography Renal Parenchymal Area Predicts Vesicoureteral Reflux After Urinary Tract Infection" presented by Dr. Shortliffe.
ABCNews.com, 03/17/11 -
Intersex babies: Boy or girl and who decides?
The January 2011 issue of the Journal of Urology featured on the cover the work from the laboratory of Joseph Liao, M.D., Assistant Professor of Urology at Stanford University and Chief of Urology at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
Rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infections using microchip technology
The January 2011 issue of the Journal of Urology featured on the cover the work from the laboratory of Joseph Liao, M.D., Assistant Professor of Urology at Stanford University and Chief of Urology at VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Kathy Mach, a Ph.D. scientist in Liao’s lab, is the lead author on the paper entitled “A Biosensor Platform for Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Directly from Clinical Samples”. The paper describes the development and validation of a biosensor array based on microchip technology for rapid diagnosis of UTI, including molecular pathogen identification within 1 hour and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) within 3.5 hours from the time of sample collection. In comparison with urine culture from clinical microbiology laboratory, which takes 2-3 days, the biosensor-based AST was 94% accurate.
The research was funded by a 5-year, $2.5 million U01 grant from the NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases entitled “An Integrated Diagnostic Biochip for Point of Care Pathogen Identification”. As the Principal Investigator, Liao is leading a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers to develop the next generation point-of-care diagnostics for urinary tract infections (UTI) using biosensors and “lab-on-a-chip” technology. There is a significant need to develop better diagnostics for UTI, the most common urological disease and one of the most common bacterial infections. The lack of highly sensitive, rapid diagnostics for urinary tract infections (UTI) has contributed to empiric use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and rise of multi-drug resistant pathogens. Liao will be presenting the biosensor work for UTI diagnostics as a featured plenary speaker at the next American Urological Association meeting in Washington D.C. on May 16, 2011.
Michael Hsieh wins prize
Michael Hsieh, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Urology won second prize in the basic science category at the 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Urology meeting for the paper, "The Bacterial General Stress Response Confers Antibiotic Resistance to Uropathogens in Vivo". The collaborative research effort with Dr. A.C. Matin at Stanford investigated how the bacterial general stress response may confer antibiotic resistance to uropathogens in vitro and in vivo through antioxidant activity.
Dr. Yang Wu Associate Professor of Urology won this prize at the 2009 national meeting for his research on brain regulation of voiding.
Resident Research Awards at the 2010 AUA meeting
Dr. Tatum Tarin and Dr. Geoffrey Sonn presented posters at the 2010 AUA meeting in San Francisco that were chosen as the best poster of their session. Dr. Tarin, a graduate in 2009, presented his resident research project with Drs. Sonn and Shinghal, investigating radiation exposure and the risk of secondary malignancy during surveillance for stage 1 seminoma. Dr. Sonn's poster, with Drs. Shinghal, Yu, Chung, Srinivas, Presti and Leppert, evaluating the utilization of partial and radical nephrectomy in the VA Central Cancer Registry was also selected as the best poster of the session.
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Dr. Hunter Wessels -
Dorothy Fenmore Visiting Professor 2010
“Prevention and Intervention for Diabetic Erectile Dysfunction”
Friday, January 29, 2010
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Munzer Auditorium – B060 – Beckman Center
Hunter Wessells, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Professor and Chairman, Nelson Chair in Urology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Wessells graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He trained in urology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was a fellow in reconstructive urology and trauma at the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests include the physiology and pathophysiology of erection, penile endothelial cell function and melanocortin signaling in sex behavior. His clinical interests cover a wide area of subjects in urology, ranging from acute injury management to the reconstruction of complex urethral and genital problems resulting from trauma, infection and radiation. He has served on national and international professional and government committees including WHO International Consultations on Erectile and Sexual Dysfunction and WHO Consensus Conference on Genitourinary Trauma. He is a member of the Urological Kidney and Genital Development Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and serves on the America Board of Urology/American Urological Association Examination Committee. Dr. Wessells is currently a member of he Advisory Committee for Urology of the American College of Surgeons. He has authored or co-authored over 100 original articles and book chapters and has lectured nationally and internationally on topics related to erectile dysfunction, reconstructive surgery and genitourinary trauma.
Robotic Surgery Offers Minimally Invasive Option for Bladder and Kidney Cancer Surgeries
Liao on ABC news
Dr. Liao was featured on ABC news on his recent publication on confocal microscopy. See "World's smallest microscope helping fight cancer" at ABC News.
