Urologist Kefu Du, MD, treats patients with stone diseases, kidney, bladder, and prostate cancers, and other related conditions using robotic, laparoscopic, or open techniques. Hear from a recent patient of Dr. Du below and learn more about Dr. Du: physicians.wustl.edu/people/kefu-du…

The Division of Urologic Surgery's 2023 Annual Report is now live! Read about our division’s achievements throughout all aspects of our mission here: bit.ly/3UzwUcb

Duminduni Hewa Angappulige joined Nupam Mahajan, PhD, and Kiran Mahajan, PhD, to outline the epigenetic underpinnings of tumor-immune dynamics in prostate cancer immune suppression. Read the article recently published in Trends in Cancer: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wash U urology residents swing into action, presenting at the AUA annual meeting. Drs Pickersgill, Barashi and Campbell pictured. Dr Campbell won the best video presentation. She also won the best podium presentation at GURS meeting earlier.⁦ 👍👍 WashU Urology⁩

#Decipher ® predicts clinically significant upgrading on final radical prostatectomy pathology. Presentation by John Sheng WashU Urology. #AUA24 written coverage by Rashid K. Sayyid University of Toronto > bit.ly/3WAdTsu Amer. Urol. Assn. Decipher by Veracyte

More WashU Urology residents and fellows present their work at #AUA24 , including PGY3 Kendrick Campbell who won Best Video and PGY4 Connor McCormick who is competing in the Residents Bowl with the South Central Section of the AUA team.

Congratulations to the South Central Section of the AUA residents bowl team and WashU Urology PGY4 Dr. McCormick for 1st place in the Amer. Urol. Assn. Residents Bowl.

Congratulation to ⁦Wash U faculty Dr Woody Smelser for winning the AUA Young Urologist Award of the Year. 🥂🎉🥳 Woody is an exemplary partner, excels in clinical care of patients, teaching and research. ⁦WashU Urology⁩ ⁦Woodson Smelser, MD⁩ ⁦Amer. Urol. Assn.⁩ #aua24

Setting up international collaboration to use #AI to study Hunner lesions in interstitial cystitis. ⁦WashU Urology⁩

Great job to urology residents Daniel Wong, MD, and Kendrick Campbell, MD, on presenting their research conducted with Kefu Du, MD, Henry Lai, MD, and Gregory Murphy, MD, during last week's Samuel Wells Resident Research Day Poster Session!

Research by pediatric urologists Douglas Coplen, MD, and Erica Traxel, MD, was just published in the Journal of Pediatric Urology. Read the article here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

H. Henry Lai, MD, and colleagues in obstetrics & gynecology identified a treatment algorithm for high-tone pelvic floor dysfunction. Learn more about the research just published in print in The Green Journal: journals.lww.com/greenjournal/f…

We throw a surprise (!) retirement celebration party to Linda, after 36 years of truly exemplary service dedicated to patients and to ⁦WashU Urology⁩. I have worked with Linda for 17 years as our clinic nurse, Urodynamics nurse, and NIH study coordinator. Will miss you a lot.

Also a big THANK YOU and a huge kudos to our wonderful NIH study coordinators (Linda, Alex, Juanita, Deb, Vivian in the picture) and to my practice assistance (Michelle). ⁦WashU Urology⁩

Urology intern Sajya Singh, MD, and colleagues from @hopkinsmedicine and The Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute assessed the association of testosterone therapy in women for sexual dysfunction with major adverse cardiac events. Read in @jsexmed: academic.oup.com/jsm/advance-ar…

Woodson Smelser, MD, an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Urologic Surgery, received a 2024 Young Urologist of the Year award from the American Urological Association (AUA). Read the full story from WashU Surgery: bit.ly/49HZ7D5

Daniel Wong, MD (PGY-4), and colleagues from UT Southwestern Urology utilized testicular radiomics to predict which patients would have viable germ cell tumor or teratoma following chemo at the time of retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: clinical-genitourinary-cancer.com/article/S1558-…

H. Henry Lai, MD, joined a national team of urogynecologists and obstetricians to develop a treatment algorithm for high-tone pelvic floor dysfunction. Read the article, just published in the latest edition of The Green Journal: journals.lww.com/greenjournal/f…

R. Sherburne Figenshau, MD, and urology trainees joined minimally invasive surgeon Michael Awad, MD, PhD, and @MIRImaging experts to perform cholecystolithotomy procedures with rigid ultrasonic lithotripsy to remove challenging gallstones. Read here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Urologist Jason Farrow, MD, and colleagues from Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine evaluated a mental workload-based automation that can be utilized during robotic-assisted surgery. Read in Human Factors: The Journal of the HFES: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…