Our distinguished faculty, many of whom are internationally recognized for their work,
have expertise in a broad spectrum of urological subspecialties.
People
Clinician Faculty
Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Urology
Dr. Pruthi sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center where he specializes in urologic oncology, including prostate and bladder cancer. He is committed to a multi-disciplinary, holistic, and patient-centric approach to care.
Professor of Urology and Chief, Pediatric Urology, Frank Hinman, Jr., MD Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Urology
Dr. Baskin sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with expertise in all areas of pediatric urologic surgical reconstruction and treatment. His lab has dedicated over 25 years to investigating the causes of congenital and acquired pediatric urologic diseases to advance prospects for cure and prevention.
• Associate Professor of Urology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, • Vice Chair of Urology, • Chief of Urology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center , • Director, UCSF Male Genitourinary Reconstruction and Trauma Surgery Fellowship,
Dr. Breyer is an internationally recognized expert in male genitourinary reconstruction, urogenital trauma and prostate cancer survivorship surgery. His clinical practice is based at UCSF-Parnassus Heights Campus. He is Vice-Chair of the Department of Urology and Chief of Urology at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. His research group is focused on outcomes in reconstructive urology and trauma and how to improve urinary and sexual wellness.
Professor, Department of Urology, Ken and Donna Derr-Chevron Distinguished Professorship in Urology, Taube Family Distinguished Professor in Urology Department of Urology
Dr. Carroll sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center with a primary focus on surgery for prostate cancer and other genitourinary cancers. He is Principal Investigator on numerous studies and world renown for his work on Active Surveillance for the management of prostate cancer.
Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, Kutzmann Endowed Professor in Clinical Urology
Dr. Chi sees patients at the Parnassus campus of UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital with a primary focus on treatment of urinary stone disease, benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), and patients in need of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Chi’s lab focuses on studies to understand how kidney stones form and how to treat and prevent them more efficiently and effectively.
Professor of Urology; Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Helen Diller Family Chair in Urology
Dr. Cooperberg sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center with a primary focus on early detection, diagnosis, and management of genitourinary malignancy, and using minimally invasive techniques to treat them using robotic, laparoscopic, endoscopic, and percutaneous surgeries.
Associate Professor of Urology, Pediatric Urology Fellowship Director
Dr. Copp is a pediatric urologist who sees patients at the Mission Bay and Oakland campuses of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and satellite clinics in Greenbrae and Modesto. She is the principal pediatric urologist for the multidisciplinary UCSF Spina Bifida Clinic. She is also Co-Director of the Transitional Urology Program, a joint effort between UCSF Pediatric and Adult Urology to understand and care for young adults with congenital urologic conditions that will require long-term urologic care. Additionally, in 2018, she was named the Pediatric Urology Fellowship Director.
Professor of Urology
Dr. DiSandro sees patients at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Mission Bay and Oakland; at Children’s Outpatient Surgery and Specialty Care Walnut Creek; and ValleyCare in Pleasanton. He has expertise in all aspects of pediatric urology.
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; Urology; and Medicine, Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Director of Translational Research, Department of Radiation Oncology
Dr. Feng sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Feng is nationally known for his approaches of using molecular biomarkers to help guide or personalize radiation therapy for the diagnosis and management of genitourinary malignancies.
Professor, Genitourinary Cancer
Dr. Fong sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in the genitourinary cancer and immunotherapy clinics. Dr. Fong has focused on cancer immunotherapy throughout his career and is widely known for his research on how the immune system interacts with cancer as well as developing tumor immunotherapies in both mouse models and in patients.
Assistant Professor of Urology
Dr. Hampson sees patients at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses for genitourinary reconstruction. She is also interested in redefining transitional urology care in order to improve the care of pediatric patients with congenital urologic problems who require further reconstruction and urologic care as adults.
Professor
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Urology
Dr. Kurhanewicz is recognized internationally for his research in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of patients with prostate cancer and was involved in the development and translation of this technology into the clinic.
Professor, Department of Medicine and Urology
Dr. Lin is a medical oncologist specializing in genitourinary cancers and sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She has a special interest in enabling patients to have access to cutting edge clinical trials and outstanding research at UCSF.
Professor and Vice Chair
of Urology, Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology
Dr. Lue is internationally recognized for his research on and clinical treatment of male sexual function, Peyronie’s disease, priapism. He sees patients at the Parnassus Campus and is Director of the Knuppe Molecular Urology laboratory which focuses on penile physiology, cavernous nerve regeneration, various types of erectile dysfunction, stress incontinence, overactive bladder and endogenous stem cells.
Professor Emeritus of Urology, San Francisco General Hospital
Dr. McAninch sees patients at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He is recognized as a national and international leader in the field of genitourinary trauma and reconstructive surgery.
Professor
of Urology, Chief of Urologic Oncology
Dr. Meng sees patients at the Parnassus campus and the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center where he specializes in all urologic cancers and complex cases. His research focuses on bladder and renal cancers.
Assistant Professor in Residence; Urologic Oncology, Goldberg-Benioff Endowed Professorship in Cancer Biology
Dr. Nguyen sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center specializing in early detection, diagnosis, and management of prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer and other genitourinary malignancies. His primary research focus is in elucidating the adaptive response pathways that prostate cancer cells use to evade cell death.
Assistant Professor of Urology, Clinical Informatics Lead, Center for Digital Health Innovation
Dr. Odisho sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and SFVA specializing the diagnosis and management of genitourinary malignancies. Dr. Odisho’s research focus combines his technical and computational background with his interests in caring for patients with urologic cancers, especially kidney and prostate cancer.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Porten sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center with a primary focus on treatment for bladder cancer. She is Principal Investigator for the bladder tissue biobank with the goal of discovering new tests and novel therapeutics to bring personalized medicine to patients with bladder cancer.
Professor of Medicine and Urology, Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care
Dr. Rabow sees patients at the Mount Zion and Mission Bay campuses of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center as part of the Symptom Management Service which focuses on optimizing quality of live by anticipating, preventing, and alleviating suffering across the duration of a patient’s illness.
Professor
of Radiation Oncology and Urology
Dr. Roach sees patients at the Mission Bay Campus. He is a professor of radiation oncology with a joint appointment with urology and recognized as a major authority on the treatment of localized prostate cancer.
Professor of Urology
Dr. Sharlip sees patients at the Center for Reproductive health. He is a nationally and internationally recognized authority on urological aspects of male reproductive and sexual medicine.
Associate Professor, Male Reproductive Health, Interim Vice Chair, Education, Interim Residency Program Director
Dr. Shindel sees patients at the Parnassus campus with a focus on lower urinary tract symptoms, benign prostate hyperplasia, sexual dysfunction, and chronic pelvic pain syndromes. His primary research interests include sexual dysfunction in men and women, biological mechanisms of lower urinary tract symptoms, and medical education.
Professor of Urology, Helen Diller Family Chair in Clinical Urology
Dr. Shinoara sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center with a primary focus on detection of and interventional therapy for prostate cancer. He is an expert in prostate imaging, employing the newest technologies for novel approaches.
Professor
of Pathology; Urology
Dr. Simko is a pathologist with a joint appointment in urology where he is internationally recognized for his ability to provide precise genitourinary pathology readings. He also oversees the Genitourinary (GU) Oncology Program's tissue core and chairs the GU Tissue Utilization Committee; the core provides high quality tissue specimens to researchers for study.
Professor of Medicine; Urology; and Chief, Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Small sees patients at the Mission Bay Campus. His patient care and research is focused on prostate cancer, immunotherapy and the mechanisms of resistance to standard therapies, most recently focusing on the development of treatment associated small cell/neuroendocrine prostate cancer (t-SCNC).
Associate Professor and Director, Male Reproductive Health
Dr Smith sees patients at the Parnassus campus, and Mission Bay campus for issues relating to male reproductive health. He directs a multidisciplinary team providing fertility preservation counseling and treatment; evaluates and treats men with male reproductive health problems, desire for vasectomy, low testosterone, and erectile dysfunction.
Professor and Vice Chair
of Urology
Dr. Stoller sees patients at the Parnassus campus, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center for issues relating to surgical management of urinary stone disease and minimally invasive endourology. His research has investigated modalities to improve the management of urinary stone disease.
Associate Professor of Urology; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Director, Neurourology, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Suskind sees patients at the Parnassus campus for issues related to urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, vaginal mesh complications, urinary fistulas, interstitial cystitis, bladder dysfunction related to neurologic disease and other forms of lower urinary tract dysfunction. Dr. Suskind’s research focuses on treatment outcomes in older adults undergoing urologic care, with a particular focus on frail older adults.
Professor Emeritus of
Urology
Dr. Tanagho sees patients at the Parnassus campus for issues relating to Adult (non-cancer) specialties of Neurourology, UroGynecology and Voiding dysfunction. He is known for its pioneering work in the field of neurostimulation.
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Dr. Westphalen is an imaging and diagnostic expert with a joint appointment in Urology who sees patients at the Parnassus campus. His major clinical service role is the interpretation of gastrointestinal and urological imaging studies with a research focus on advanced imaging technologies to diagnose and treat prostate cancer patients with the ultimate goal of improving patients’ outcomes.
Researchers
Professor
of Urology; Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences; Pathology
, Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, Endowed Chair, Associate Chair Basic Science Research, Dept of Urology
Blelloch is a basic science researcher at the Parnassus campus of UCSF. His laboratory is interested in determining the molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell differentiation and de-differentiation and how these mechanisms become deregulated in cancers such as prostate cancer.
Professor of
Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Urology
Dr. Chan is a professor of epidemiology & biostatistics and urology. Her research focuses on understanding how diet, exercise, hormones, and genetics contribute to prostate cancer incidence, progression, and death.
Professor of Urology
Dr Dahiya is basic science researcher located at the San Francisco Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. He is the principal investigator since 1991 on several NIH / VA / DOD large grants such as utilizing genetic biomarkers that can identify which localized prostate / kidney and bladder tumors are likely to progress, metastasize, or become fatal, and thus require more aggressive clinical intervention.
Assistant Professor, Goldberg-Benioff Program Chair in Prostate Cancer Translational Biology
Dr. Gilbert is a basic science researcher located in the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Center at the Mission Bay campus of UCSF. The Gilbert laboratory's expertise is in synthetic biology, functional genomics and cancer biology with a goal of finding new ways to model and overcome drug resistance in advanced prostate cancer.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Department of Urology
Dr. Goodarzi is a basic science researcher located in the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Center at the Mission Bay campus of UCSF. His multidisciplinary lab is focused on developing integrated computational and experimental strategies in order to uncover the underlying regulatory mechanisms that drive cancer progression and metastasis.
Associate Professor of Urology, Helen Diller Family Chair in Population Science for Urologic Cancer
Dr. Kenfield is a researcher located in the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Center at the Mission Bay campus of UCSF. She is interested in nutritional and lifestyle risk factors for prostate cancer incidence and progression to identify opportunities for prevention and improved survival in the millions of men diagnosed with prostate cancer worldwide.
Professor of Urology
Dr. Lin is a researcher in the lab Knuppe Molecuar Urology Lab under Tom Lue, MD on the Parnassus campus. The lab focuses on the molecular mechanism of impotence, female stress urinary incontinence, Peyronie’s Disease and discovery of new markers for prostate and bladder cancer.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine at SFGH), Urology and Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Chair in Community Education and Outreach for Urologic Cancer
Dr. Palmer is a public health scientist, dedicated to unraveling the mechanisms of cancer disparities, with a depth of knowledge in cultural influence, patient-centered communication, and strategies that enhance delivery of high-quality prostate cancer care.
Professor
of Urology
Dr. Paris is a scientist where she studies translational cancer genomics research. The overarching goal of her laboratory is to identify drug targets with associated prognostic biomarkers.
Associate Professor of Urology
Dr. Roan’s research laboratory is located at the Gladstone Institutes at Mission Bay. Her lab focuses on three main areas: determining how various types of cells and extracellular components of mucosal tissues can affect immunity and infection by HIV; using single-cell analytical approaches to understand the molecular basis of human diseases including those caused by HIV infection; and understanding how extracellular factors in mucosal secretions can affect reproductive health.
Professor of
Urology
Dr. Ruggero is a scientist at the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Center at Mission Bay. His lab is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which impairments in accurate control of mRNA translation, cell growth, and overall cellular protein synthesis rates lead to cancer.
Assistant Professor of
Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Urology
Dr. Van Blarigan is a researcher with Urology and the department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. Her research is focused on the role of nutrition and physical activity in cancer survivorship.
Professor of Urology
Dr. Van Den Eeden is a collaborating researcher with the UCSF Department of Urology whose interest is in prostate cancer research and other non-cancer genitourinary conditions. He is a senior epidemiologist at the Division of Research at Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
Professor
of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Urology
Dr. Witte is an epidemiologist with a joint appointment in Urology. His research constitutes applied and methodologic genetic epidemiology, with the overall aim of deciphering the mechanisms underlying complex diseases and particularly prostate cancer.
Nurse Practitioners
Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Ms. Arnhym sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and at the Marin Clinic in Greenbrae. She is an expert in bowel and bladder dysfunction in otherwise healthy children co-authoring the “Guide to Treating Your Child’s Constipation, Wetting and Urinary Tract Infection” booklet.
Nurse Practitioner
Ms. Cabreira sees patients at the Parnassus campus of UCSF with a primary focus on female incontinence, urinary tract infections, pelvic prolapse, pelvic floor dysfunction, and female sexual health. She has a passion for women’s health, and aims to empower women with options and choices for improving and/or maintaining optimal quality of life.
Pediatric nurse practitioner
Ms. Champeau sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Champeau is particularly interested in treating incontinence complicated by birth defects such as posterior urethral valve, bladder exstrophy, prune belly and neurogenic bladder as well as the urologic evaluation of children in need of a kidney transplant.
Nurse Practitioner, Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Ms. Huang sees patients at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital of Oakland where she provides comprehensive urologic assessments and develops patient centered treatment plans for children in hospital and outpatient settings
Nurse Practitioner
Ms. Perez is a nurse practitioner who sees patients at the Mission Bay campus of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. As the clinical point person of the Active Surveillance Program, she, along with the surgical faculty sees and provides clinical guidance to over one-thousand three-hundred participating patients in this prostate cancer management regime.