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Elspeth M. McDougall, MD
Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC joined the UCI faculty in 2002 to continue her clinical and research work in minimally invasive urologic surgery and assist in the development of a minimally invasive surgery education center. She is internationally recognized for her laboratory and clinical research in urologic laparoscopic surgery and for teaching courses on fundamental and advanced endourological and laparoscopic techniques, and is named as one of America's Best Doctors.Dr. McDougall completed her medical training at the University of Calgary and the University of Ottawa in Canada, and then undertook a fellowship in endourology and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) with Dr. Clayman at Washington University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Washington University Medical School in 1991, where she spent nine years in academic urology. Subsequently, she developed the Endourology/Laparoscopic Urology Program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, during her tenure there as Professor of Urologic Surgery. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (Urology) and certified with the American Board of Urology. Dr. McDougall has published more than 132 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous book chapters. She is the co-editor of two textbooks on laparoscopic surgery.
Dr. McDougall is chairperson for the Surgical Simulation Committee and a member of the Laparoscopic Training Committee of the American Urological Association. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Endourology and the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. She is President of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and a member of the World Congress of Endourology's Scientific Meeting Advisory Committee. She was recently elected to the prestigious American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. Dr. McDougall is director of the Yamanouchi Center for Urological Education at UCI and developed the ongoing, five-day mini-residency training program in minimally invasive urologic surgery training academic and community urologists. She also is co-director of the annual New Frontiers in Endourology course at UCI.
Training:
Undergraduate: University of Alberta
Medical School: University of Calgary
Residency: Holy Cross Hospital, Ottawa Civic and Ottawa General Hospitals
Fellowship Training:Endourology / Washington University, St. Louis, Mo
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