Anobel Y. Odisho, MD, MPH, FAMIA
Anobel Y. Odisho, MD, MPH, FAMIA
Education
Biography
Dr. Odisho is the Medical Director of Surgical Informatics and a Urologic Oncologic surgeon. He is board certified in Urology and Clinical Informatics and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He received his undergraduate training from the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a degree in Molecular Biology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations with high honors. He then earned his MD from the University of California, San Francisco with an Area of Distinction in Medical Humanities. He stayed at UCSF for his General Surgery and Urology training. During residency, he earned a Masters of Public Health degree at the University of California, with an emphasis in epidemiology and biostatistics. He completed his Urologic Oncology fellowship training at the University of Washington. In 2017, Dr. Odisho was recruited to join the faculty at UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is Specializing in urologic cancer care, he is part of the multidisciplinary urologic oncology team of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, located primarily at the Mission Bay campus.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Odisho’s clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of genitourinary malignancies, such as kidney, prostate, bladder, and testicular cancer using robotic, laparoscopic, and endoscopic approaches in addition to open surgery. He works to incorporate risk stratification and patient preferences in clinical decision-making, including the use of interactive patient education tools and patient-reported outcomes. Dr. Odisho is a member of the American Urological Association (AUA) and the Society for Urologic Oncology.
Research Interests
Dr. Odisho’s research focus combines his technical and computational background with his interests in caring for patients with kidney cancer. His research interests include incorporating novel technologies to improve care delivery. His research focuses on clinical informatics and the development, implementation, and evaluation of digital health programs that extend telehealth into asynchronous, automated patient care. He also works to integrate Large Language Models and AI into clinical care to extract meaning from unstructured clinical notes, such as imaging and pathology reports.
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