Craig V. Comiter

Clinical Focus

• Urology
• Pelvic Pain
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Administrative Appointments

• Member, Stanford Leadership Develpment Program , (2008– 2009 )
• Officer, Stanford Hosptial Quality Committe , (2008– 2011 )
• Senator, Stanford University Faculty Senate , (2008– 2010 )

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)
• Faculty Teaching Award, Section of Urology, University of Arizona (2008)
• Faculty Teaching Award, Section of Urology, University of Arizona (2002)
• Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona (2002)
• Outstanding Reviewer of the Year, Honorable Mention, Journal of Urology (2007)
• Third Prize, Joseph F. McCarthy Essay Contest, Western Section American Urological Association (1999)
• First Prize, Joseph F. McCarthy Essay Contest, Western Section American Urological Association (2006)
• First Prize, Joseph F. McCarthy Essay Contest, Western Section American Urological Association (2001)

Professional Education

• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1994) MA
• Board Certification: Urology, American Board of Urology (2001)
• UCLA (1999) CA
• Harvard Program in Urology MA
• Harvard Medical School (1992) MA
• M.D., Harvard Medical School Medicine (1992)
• A.B., Harvard College Biology (1988)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Urology

Industry Relationships

Stanford is committed to ethical and transparent interactions with our industry partners. It is our policy to disclose payments of $5,000 or more, equity valued at $5,000 or more in a publicly traded company, or any equity in a privately held company, to physicians and scientists employed by Stanford University from companies or other commercial entities with which they interact as part of their professional activities. 

• Consulting: Coloplast
• Equity: Curant

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.

Publications

• 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
• The 'ventral urethral elevation plus' sling: a novel approach to treating stress urinary incontinence in men. Comiter CV,  Rhee EY.  BJU Int.  2008; 101 (2): 187-91
• Sacral nerve stimulation to treat nonobstructive urinary retention in women. Comiter CV,  Curr Urol Rep.  2008; 9 (5): 405-11
• The role of angiotensin II in stress urinary incontinence: A rat model. Phull H,  Salkini M, Escobar C, Purves T, Comiter CV.  Neurourol Urodyn.  2007; 26 (1): 81-8; discussion 89
• Angiotensin II plays a role in acute murine experimental autoimmune cystitis. Phull H,  Salkini M, Purves T, Funk J, Copeland D, Comiter CV.  BJU Int.  2007; 100 (3): 664-7
• Surgery Insight: surgical management of postprostatectomy incontinence--the artificial urinary sphincter and male sling. Comiter CV,  Nat Clin Pract Urol.  2007; 4 (11): 615-24
• The male perineal sling--a viable alternative to the artificial urinary sphincter. Comiter CV,  Nat Clin Pract Urol.  2006; 3 (3): 118-9
• Highlights from the combined Society of Urodynamics and Female Urology and International Society of Pelvic Neuromodulation annual meeting. Lemack GE,  Siegel S, Comiter C, Damaser M, Kobashi K, Payne C, Rodriguez L, Wright EJ.  J Urol.  2006; 175 (5): 1852-6
• Surgery insight: management of failed sling surgery for female stress urinary incontinence. Comiter CV,  Nat Clin Pract Urol.  2006; 3 (12): 666-74
• Complications of transvaginal silicone-coated polyester synthetic mesh sling. Govier FE,  Kobashi KC, Kuznetsov DD, Comiter C, Jones P, Dakil SE, James R.  Urology.  2005; 66 (4): 741-5
• The male perineal sling: intermediate-term results. Comiter CV,  Neurourol Urodyn.  2005; 24 (7): 648-53
• Ciprofloxacin or tamsulosin in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a randomized, double-blind trial. Alexander RB,  Propert KJ, Schaeffer AJ, Landis JR, Nickel JC, O'Leary MP, Pontari MA, McNaughton-Collins M, Shoskes DA, Comiter CV, Datta NS, Fowler JE, Nadler RB, Zeitlin SI, Knauss JS, Wang Y, Kusek JW, Nyberg LM, Litwin MS.  Ann Intern Med.  2004; 141 (8): 581-9
• The male sling for stress urinary incontinence: urodynamic and subjective assessment. Ullrich NF,  Comiter CV.  J Urol.  2004; 172 (1): 204-6
• High rate of vaginal extrusion of silicone-coated polyester sling. Comiter CV,  Colegrove PM.  Urology.  2004; 63 (6): 1066-70
• The male sling for stress urinary incontinence: 24-month followup with questionnaire based assessment. Ullrich NF,  Comiter CV.  J Urol.  2004; 172 (1): 207-9
• Incisionless pubovaginal fascial sling using transvaginal bone anchors for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. Vasavada SP,  Comiter CV, Raz S.  ScientificWorldJournal.  2004; 4 Suppl 1 357-63
• Correlation among maximal urethral closure pressure, retrograde leak point pressure, and abdominal leak point pressure in men with postprostatectomy stress incontinence. Comiter CV,  Sullivan MP, Yalla SV.  Urology.  2003; 62 (1): 75-8
• Sacral neuromodulation for the symptomatic treatment of refractory interstitial cystitis: a prospective study. Comiter CV,  J Urol.  2003; 169 (4): 1369-73
• Endometriosis of the urinary tract. Comiter CV,  Urol Clin North Am.  2002; 29 (3): 625-35
• The male sling for stress urinary incontinence: a prospective study. Comiter CV,  J Urol.  2002; 167 (2 Pt 1): 597-601
• Repair of enterocele and vault prolapse: transvaginal culdosuspension. Comiter CV,  Tech Urol.  2001; 7 (2): 146-51
• New technique for antegrade collagen injection for post-radical prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence. Loughlin KR,  Comiter CV.  Urology.  1999; 53 (2): 410-1
• Transvaginal culdosuspension: technique and results. Comiter CV,  Vasavada SP, Raz S.  Urology.  1999; 54 (5): 819-22
• Cytoscopic light test to aid in the differentiation of high-grade pelvic organ prolapse. Vasavada SP,  Comiter CV, Raz S.  Urology.  1999; 54 (6): 1085-7
• Grading pelvic prolapse and pelvic floor relaxation using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. Comiter CV,  Vasavada SP, Barbaric ZL, Gousse AE, Raz S.  Urology.  1999; 54 (3): 454-7
• Effusion cytology of renal cell carcinoma. Renshaw AA,  Comiter CV, Nappi D, Granter SR.  Cancer.  1998; 84 (3): 148-52
• Prognostic features of teratomas with malignant transformation: a clinicopathological study of 21 cases. Comiter CV,  Kibel AS, Richie JP, Nucci MR, Renshaw AA.  J Urol.  1998; 159 (3): 859-63
• Retrograde leak point pressure for evaluating postradical prostatectomy incontinence. Comiter CV,  Sullivan MP, Yalla SV.  Urology.  1997; 49 (2): 231-6
• Effect of angiotensin II on corpus cavernosum smooth muscle in relation to nitric oxide environment: in vitro studies in canines. Comiter CV,  Sullivan MP, Yalla SV, Kifor I.  Int J Impot Res.  1997; 9 (3): 135-40
• Urodynamic risk factors for renal dysfunction in men with obstructive and nonobstructive voiding dysfunction. Comiter CV,  Sullivan MP, Schacterle RS, Cohen LH, Valla SV.  J Urol.  1997; 158 (1): 181-5
• Fungal bezoar and bladder rupture secondary to candida tropicalis. Comiter CV,  McDonald M, Minton J, Yalla SV.  Urology.  1996; 47 (3): 439-41
• Burned-out primary testicular cancer: sonographic and pathological characteristics. Comiter CV,  Renshaw AA, Benson CB, Loughlin KR.  J Urol.  1996; 156 (1): 85-8
• Prediction of prostatic obstruction with a combination of isometric detrusor contraction pressure and maximum urinary flow rate. Comiter CV,  Sullivan MP, Schacterle RS, Yalla SV.  Urology.  1996; 48 (5): 723-9; discussion 729-30
• Micturitional urethral pressure profilometry. Sullivan MP,  Comiter CV, Yalla SV.  Urol Clin North Am.  1996; 23 (2): 263-78
• Detached ciliary tufts in the epididymis: a lesson in applied anatomy. Comiter CV,  Bruning CO, Morgentaler A.  Urology.  1995; 46 (5): 740-2
• Glucocorticoid remediable aldosteronism: a rare hereditary form of adrenocorticotropic hormone regulated mineralocorticoid hypertension. Comiter CV,  Capelouto CC, Tobin MS, Dluhy RG, Richie JP.  J Urol.  1995; 154 (2 Pt 1): 510-2
• Nonpalpable intratesticular masses detected sonographically. Comiter CV,  Benson CJ, Capelouto CC, Kantoff P, Shulman L, Richie JP, Loughlin KR.  J Urol.  1995; 154 (4): 1367-9