Volume 25 • No. 9 • OCTOBER 2001
associate professor of urology
New hospital budget approved. . .
Ethics panel-When monetary and medical interests collide
MediBase projects seeks duplicate medical records
Nurses and hospitals agree to contract extension
Three associate deans appointed for academic affairs
New Cancer Center Breaks Ground
chair of urology
F A C T S
1. The Department of Urology consists of 21 full-time faculty members Š 17 clinical, four research, and a cadre of local urologists in private practice who contribute as clinical associate faculty. Eight residents participate in the formal four-year training program, offering nearly a 2-to-1 ratio of faculty physicians to trainees.
2. Clinics include:
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Stone Clinic (calculus, lithotripsy, endourology)
„ Male Sexual Dysfunction, Infertility
„ Female Urology and Voiding Dysfunction Center (pelvic pain, incontinence,
interstitial cystitis, female sexual dysfunction, neurogenic bladder, prostate
disorders [benign prostatic hyperplasia], and prostatitis)
„ Urologic Cancer Clinic (kidney, bladder and prostate cancer),
„ Comprehensive Urologic Oncology Clinic (joint urology-oncology)
„ Minimally Invasive Surgery (laparoscopic, endourologic surgery). (The phone
number for appointments is (650) 723-6024, except the Comprehensive Urologic
Cancer Clinic, which is 723-7621.)
3. Pediatric clinics at Packard Hospital include: Pediatric Urology Clinic, Hypospadias Clinic, Fetal Urology Clinic (Hydronephrosis), and Urogynecology/ Andrology Clinic. The phone number is 725-5530.
4.
Faculty surgical volume:
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ADULTS
(FY 2000 Stanford Faculty)
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Radical Prostatectomies - 153
Cystectomies - 37
Nephrectomies - 106
Female Incontinence - 99
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PEDS
Ureteroneocystostomy - 71
Hypospadias - 79
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5. Off-site clinics, which offer research and teaching opportunities as well as specialty pediatric urologic clinical services, are held in San Jose Bascom LPCH Clinic and at Dominican Hospital Outpatient Facility in Santa Cruz.
6. Linda Dairiki SHORTLIFFE received her MD from Stanford in 1975. After completing a six-year urologic residency culminating as chief resident. She joined the faculty in 1981 at Stanford. She served as chief of the urology section at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 1981-86, and after a year at ChildrenÕs Hospital of Philadelphia she returned to Stanford to head pediatric urology as an associate professor with tenure. She was promoted to professor in 1993 and named chair of the department two years later. She currently serves as chief of pediatric urology at Stanford and Packard hospitals, as well as director of the housestaff program in her department. She has received nationally funded research in several areas, and her current research interests include hydronephrosis. She is also a Trustee of the American Board of Urology and chairs the NIH Bladder Research Program Review Group.
7. Joseph C. Presti Jr. graduated from the UC-Irvine medical school in 1984. He completed his general surgery and urology training at UCSF in 1989 and a fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1992. He came to Stanford as associate professor and director of the Division of Genitourinary Oncology in June 2000 from a faculty position at UCSF. A prolific clinician and clinical researcher, PrestiÕs research includes molecular genetic analysis of renal cell carcinoma, early detection of prostate cancer and prediction of local stage and outcome of prostate cancer patients treated by radical prostatectomy.
8. James D. Brooks, graduated from StanfordÕs medical school in 1988. He received his urology training at Johns Hopkins, where he became an expert in the technique of nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy and in the surgical anatomy of the pelvis. He came to Stanford in 1997. He continues an active surgical practice while searching for the causes of prostate cancer in his laboratory research. He is particularly interested in prostate cancer genetics and epidemiology.
9. Physicians may contact faculty physicians directly: cancer, Joe Presti, Harchi Gill, Jim Brooks, (650) 725-5544; neuro/female, Chris Payne, Rodney Anderson, 723-3391; general, impotence and infertility, Bob Kessler, Stewart McCallum, 723-6024; pediatrics, Linda Shortliffe, 498-5042, Bill Kennedy and Jennifer Abidari, 724-7608.
