Craig V. Comiter

Clinical Focus

• Urology
• female urology
• pelvic prolapse
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
• Urinary Incontinence

Administrative Appointments

• Vice Chair, PPEC Dept of Surgery (2010 - 2012)
• Member, Stanford Leadership Develpment Program (2008 - 2009)
• Officer, Stanford Hosptial Quality Committe (2008 - 2011)
• Senator, Stanford University Faculty Senate (2008 - 2011)

Honors and Awards

• Second Prize, Best Poster, Western Section American Urological Association (2007)
• First Prize, Best of the Session, Western Section American Urological Association (2007)
• Top Ten Reviewer, Neurourology and Urodynamics (2007)
• Best Poster, Western Section American Urological Association (2002)
• Second Prize, Best of the Session, Western Section American Urological Association (2006)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Christopher Elliott

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Urology

Industry Relationships

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Current Research Interests

Using various animal models of bladder outlet obstruction as a representation of human prostatic disease, I am investigating how intervening with pharmacotherapy, neuromodulation, and other novel therapies may help to reverse the adverse changes in the bladder due to the obstruction.

I also am investigating new, minimally invasive treatments for post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence.

I am also investigating the role of neruomodulation in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain and IC.

Clinical Trials

• Male Stress Urinary Incontinence and Sexual Health Recruiting

Publications

• Chronic sacral nerve stimulation prevents detrusor structural and functional changes associated with bladder outlet obstruction--a rat model. Comiter CV, Mazar C, Phull H, Salkini M. Neurourol Urodyn. 2010; 29 (5): 783-8
• Editorial comment. Comiter CV, Urology. 2010; 75 (3): 532-3; author reply 533
• Editorial comment. Comiter CV, Urology. 2010; 75 (2): 436-7; author reply 437
• Editorial comment. The management of postprostatectomy stress urinary incontinence. Comiter CV, Urology. 2009; 73 (6): 1368; author reply 1368-9
• The effect of sildenafil citrate on bladder outlet obstruction: a mouse model. Beamon CR, Mazar C, Salkini MW, Phull HS, Comiter CV. BJU Int. 2009; 104 (2): 252-6