Jeanette S. Brown, MD, Professor
Dr. Jeanette S. Brown received her medical degree from Rutgers Medical School of New Jersey in 1980 and completed her residency at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) faculty in 1986 and is a Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Urology, and Epidemiology. In 1990, she founded the UCSF Women's Continence Center and serves as the director. In 1993, Dr. Brown completed a UCSF Clinical Research Fellowship and is currently director of the ORWH/NIDDK funded UCSF Specialized Center of Research (SCOR: www.ucsf.edu/scor) on Lower Urinary Tract Function in Women, a collaborative group of basic and clinical investigators doing translational research on the female urethra, bladder, and pelvic floor. She is also director of the UCSF Women's Health Research Center Fellowship in Clinical Research and the UCSF Clinical & Translational Sciences Comprehensive Mentoring Program. She is the Co-Director of the UCSF Women's Health Clinical Research Center (WHCRC). Dr. Brown leads a broad, federally funded program in translational research, publishes frequently in peer-reviewed journals, and mentors junior clinical and translational investigators.
SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Dr. Brown’s primary research interest is in lower urinary tract function among women with diabetes, identifying modifiable factors that increase risk for incontinence, and evaluating effective new surgical and non-surgical treatments for incontinence. She is also directs research to develop simple diagnostic tests to enable primary care physicians to diagnose and treat incontinence.
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David Castro-Diaz, MD
David Castro-Diaz received his medical degree from the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain) in 1979. Dr. Castro-Diaz completed his training in the UK and USA. In 1990 he was appointed as Full Professor of Urology at the University of La Laguna.
His main clinical and research interest is focused on Voiding Dysfunction and Female Urology. He is a member of several international scientific societies and editorial boards. He has been Scientific Chairman of the Spanish Association of Urology and member of the Board of the European School of Urology (Education Office of the European Association of Urology). At present he serves as Vice-President of the Spanish Association of Urology. Dr. Castro-Diaz is Professor of Urology and Consultant Urologist at the University Hospital of the Canary Islands.
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Firouz Daneshgari, M.D. FACS
Professor of Surgery and Molecular Medicine
Dr. Firouz Daneshgari is a surgeon-scientist at the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, the Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, and the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He currently serves as the Director of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery including the Fellowship Program in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery and the Basic Science Laboratory for Female Pelvic Disorders at the Glickman Urological Institute.
He has served as an expert at NIH activities such as “NICHD expert panel on defining basic and translational research in female pelvic floor disorders”; and grant reviewer for various study sections of the Center for Scientific Review of the NIH. Dr. Daneshgari received the Zimskind Award of the Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology for his “outstanding and continuous contribution to the field of female urology and voiding dysfunction”.
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Francois Haab, Professor
Francois Haab is Professor of Urology, Head of Female Urology, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Urodynamics Unit at the Urology Department at Tenon Hospital in Paris. He trained at Paris Medical School and qualified in 1988. Thereafter, he did his urology residency at Paris Medical School, with a Master of Surgical Sciences at the University of Paris, receiving his certification as a urologist in 1994.In 1994, Professor Haab did a clinical fellowship in “Female Urology and Neurourology” at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles.
Professor Haab is an active member of many societies including International Continence Society, International Consultation on Incontinence, American Urodynamic Society. He is currently General Secretary of the French urodynamic society and he his a member of the scientific committee of the European Society of Female Urology.
He is Section Editor for European Urology: female urology – neurourology and for Neurology and Urodynamics: Male incontinence and a member of several editorial boards.
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Yasuhiko Igawa, MD, PhD
Dr. Yasuhiko Igawa is associate professor in the Department of Urology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan. He received his MD from Shinshu University School of Medicine in 1982. After he completed residencies of urology at the Shinshu University Hospital, he was certified as urologist in 1987 and as consultant urologist in 1993 by the board of Japan Urological Association. He received his Degree of Medical Science from Shinshu University School of Medicine and PhD from Faculty of Medicine, University of Lund in 1994. He became associate professor at the Department of Urology, Shinshu University School of Medicine in 1995, and was promoted to the present position there in 1997.
Dr. Igawa is a member of many professional societies that include Japanese Urological Association(JUA, 1982-), Japanese Neurogenic Bladder Society(JNBS, 1983-), ICS (1985-), AUA (1995-) and SIU (1996-). He has served as Co-chairman of the Committee on Conservative Management in the Neuropathic Patient” of 1st and 2nd International Consultation on Incontinence (ICI) held in 1998 and 2001, respectively and as a member of the Committee on Neurogenic Patients of 3rd ICI in 2004. He has also served as a Clinical Representative of the ICS scientific Committee since august, 2007.
Dr. Igawa’s fields of interest lie in neurourology and pediatric urology, especially in voiding function and dysfunction, the physiology and pharmacology of the lower urinary tract and urinary reconstructive surgery. He has published more than70 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals.
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John W. Kusek, PhD
Dr. John W. Kusek received his Ph.D. in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan. He was on the faculty in the Epidemiology-Biometry Program at the University of Illinois (Chicago) School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor for four years. He then joined the National Institutes of Health and was a health scientist with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for six years. In 1989 he joined the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases where he serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor and Leads the Clinical Trials Program.
Synopsis of Areas of Interest: Clinical trials, epidemiological studies in non-malignant urologic diseases/illnesses
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Christopher K. Payne, MD. Associate Professor of Urology. Stanford University Medical School
Christopher Payne grew up in West Virginia and attended undergraduate school at the University of Virginia where he received a BA degree in Chemistry with a minor in English. He attended Vanderbilt University for medical school after which he completed a urology residency at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Female Urology, Urodynamics, and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at UCLA in 1992-1993. He was recruited to Stanford University in August 1993 to initiate a new program in Female Urology and NeuroUrology and he has served continuously on the faculty since then.
Dr. Payne is nationally recognized as a leader on issues in female urology having served on NIH advisory/oversight panels on urinary incontinence and interstitial cystitis and his expertise in clinical research has been recognized through two NIH grants principal investigator grants focusing on treatment of interstitial cystitis. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on urinary incontinence, pelvic reconstructive surgery, and interstitial cystitis
CLINICAL INTERESTS
• Male and Female Urinary Incontinence
• Urodynamics
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Urinary Obstruction and Fistulas
• Pelvic Prolapse
• Neurogenic bladder
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Guri Rortveit, MD, PhD, Associate professor
Dr. Guri Rortveit received her medical degree from the University of Trondheim in 1991, and has specialized in family medicine. She completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, in 2004. She has since then worked as associate professor at the same department, and since 2006 she is also director of research at the Research Unit for General Practice, Unifob Health/University of Bergen. She is a member of International Continence Society. She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association.
SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Dr. Rortveit’s research interests include epidemiology on urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse, as well as epidemiologic studies on infectious diseases such as impetigo and giardiasis.
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Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, Professor
Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, obtained his medical degree from the University of Louvain in 1978 and subsequently trained in General Surgery and Urology in Belgium and The Netherlands. He Registered as a urologist in 1984, and received his masters degree in medicine from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in medical sciences from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 1993. Since 1993 he is Fellow of the European Board of Urology.
He is Professor of Urology at University of Maastricht and is Chairman of the Department of Urology in the University Hospital of Maastricht. His research interests are bladder stimulation in spinal cord injury and the development of new therapies in Neuro-Urology and Functional Uology such as neuromodulation and new pharmacotherapeutic modalities for voiding dysfunction.
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Philippe E. Zimmern, M.D., Professor
Dr Zimmern, MD is currently a Professor of Urology at the University Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Director of the Bladder and Incontinence Treatment Center. Dr Zimmern received his medical training and completed his doctoral thesis at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris, France. After completing a urology residency training program in France, Dr. Zimmern spent a fellowship year at UCLA with Dr. Shlomo Raz. After graduating from UCLA in 1988, Dr. Zimmern joined Dr. Gary Leach at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles, where he assumed the position of Co-Director of the Urodynamics Laboratory and Director of the Urology Research Program for the next seven years.
He is currently a Professor in Urology at the University and Director of the Bladder and Incontinence Treatment Center. Dr. Zimmern assumes journalistic responsibility for several journals of urology in France and the United States. He is the Past President of the Society for Female Urology and Urodynamics (SUFU).
SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Dr Zimmern’s clinical interests include female Urology (incontinence, prolapse), voiding dysfunction, urodynamics, and neurourology. His research has focused on incontinence, prolapse, and voiding dysfunction
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