11 years ago
UNC's Department of Urology's Dr. Raj Pruthi and Dr. Eric Wallen were recognized as Newsweek's "Top Cancer Doctors" of 2015. The "Top Cancer Doctors 2015" was compiled after 100,000 nominations were carefully reviewed and proceed.
11 years ago
The Massachusetts Medical Society will award Culley C. Carson III, MD, with its Men’s Health Award at their 13th Annual Men’s Health Symposium in June. The award recognizes individuals who have advanced the cause of men’s health. Dr. Carson, a recognized authority on men’s health, is the John Sloan Rhodes and John Flint Rhodes Distinguished Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology at the UNC School of Medicine.
11 years ago
Ten residency programs at the University of North Carolina Hospitals were ranked among the top residencies in the South in results released by Doximity and U.S. News & World Report. Following the program’s ranking in the top 20 urology residencies nationwide in the first-ever national evaluation of residency programs this past fall, UNC Hospitals’ residency …
11 years ago
Mary Dunn, RN, MSN, OCN, NP-C of UNC Urology was recently selected to receive the Oncology Nursing Excellence Award for 2014. Mary has been with the Department of Urology and Medical Oncology since 2010 as an adult nurse practitioner and has served as adjunct faculty for the UNC School of Nursing since 2011. She is …
11 years ago
On September 10th, Doximity physician network, in collaboration with US News & World Report, announced their first-ever national evaluation of residency programs across 20 specialties. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Urology Residency Program was ranked among the top 20 Urology residency programs nationwide. Doximity conducted an online survey of member physicians, …
12 years ago
Culley C. Carson III, MD, FACS, Rhodes Distinguished Professor of Urology and former Chief of Urology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently received the St. Paul’s Medal from the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). Created in 1989, the St. Paul’s Medal is the Association’s highest award for contributions to the …
12 years ago
Dr. Raj S. Pruthi, Professor and Chair of the UNC Department of Urology, was invited to serve as a representative of the American Urological Association at the Alliance for Specialty Medicine’s Annual Advocacy Conference July 7-9 in Washington, DC. The Alliance is a coalition of national medical societies representing specialty physicians in the United …
12 years ago
UNC Urology Assistant Professor R. Matthew Coward, MD, received funding from the NC Cancer Hospital Endowment Fund for his project titled, “Development of an oncofertility program directed at adolescent males with a new diagnosis of cancer at UNC Cancer Hospital.” In his project proposal, Dr. Coward noted that though fertility preservation for all male cancer …
12 years ago
David Johnson, MD, MPH, currently completing his 3rd year of urology residency, was recently selected as a recipient of the 2014 UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center John William Pope Clinical Fellow Award. He was nominated by his mentors, Matthew Nielsen and Angela Smith, on the Urology faculty, and selected by Lineberger faculty reviewers on the …
12 years ago
Raj S. Pruthi, MD, FACS, Chair of the Department of Urology, spoke about bladder cancer on NPR’s “The People’s Pharmacy,” on Saturday, March 1, 2014. We rarely hear about bladder cancer, but it is the fourth most common cancer of men in the U.S., and the toll it takes is underappreciated. We hear from …
12 years ago
Nature Reviews Urology highlights research on sarcopenia as a predictor for complications and survival following radical cystectomy.
12 years ago
Dr. Raj Pruthi, Professor and Chairman of Urology at UNC, was recently invited to join a distinguished international faculty for the 2nd annual Techno Urology Congress on Improving Minimally Invasive Surgery in Torino, Italy. He participated in a panel with Professors Alex Mottrie from Belgium and Peter Wiklund from Sweden, discussing techniques and results of …