Welcome to the website of the International Evidence based Urology Working Group. Established at the University of Florida in 2008, it is the first group in urology of its kind. The broad aim of the group is to promote an evidence based clinical practice of urology and to provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. Additionally we hope for the website to be used as a tool in educating fellow urologists in the principles of evidence based medicine as they apply to the specialty of urology. In the near future our website will feature several educational modules to be used by urologists to familiarize themselves with EBM concepts and to learn how they can be applied to their clinical practice. We hope that this site will serve as a forum to enhance the collaboration of all parties interested in evidence based medicine.
Members
Philipp Dahm, MD, MHSc, FACS
Philipp Dahm is currently a Professor and Residency Program Director in the Department of Urology at the University of Florida. He completed his urology residency training and his Master of Health Science in Clinical Leadership at Duke University. Dr. Dahm has an established track record in teaching EBM to practicing urologists and urology residents. He has served as a faculty member of the Duke, McMaster and Oxford workshops on how to teach EBM; has directed a postgraduate course on EBM at the AUA annual meeting; and organized the first freestanding workshop on EBM for urologists. He is an active member of the SUU (Society of University Urologists) and SUCPD (Society of Urology Chairpersons and Program Directors), and is a member of the AUA Core Curriculum Committee.
Charles D. Scales, Jr., MD
Charles (“Chuck”) D. Scales, Jr., M.D. is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/VA Clinical Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Chemistry and earned a Masters in Chemistry from Harvard University. He is a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine and completed his urology training at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Scales has previously published on utilization of prostate cancer screening in the United States, practice patterns and outcomes in the management of kidney stones, and evidence-based clinical practice in urology. In addition, he has a strong interest in graduate medical education, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. His research and policy interests focus on quality of care for kidney stone disease, and patient safety, quality of care, and value in the healthcare training environment.
Timothy Tseng, MD
Timothy Tseng is currently an Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He completed his residency training at Duke University and a fellowship in Endourology and Laparoscopy at the University of California San Francisco. His evidence based medicine interests include determining the best evidence based practices in urology and how to better apply them to clinical research.
Rodney Breau, MD
Rodney Breau is a staff uro-oncologist at The Ottawa Hospital, Associate Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. He received his medical degree from Dalhousie University and urology training at the University of Ottawa. He completed a Masters degree in clinical research and a urological oncology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His evidence based medicine interests include clinical trials and EBM education for urologists.
Sakineh Hajebrahimi, MD
Sakineh Hajebrahimi is currently a Professor of Urology at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. She is program director of Female Urology–Neurourology fellowship in Iran. Dr. Hajebrahimi received her urology training at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, and female urology fellowship training at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She founded the first Iranian center for evidence based medicine in 2004, and is currently serving as its director. She has held many national and international workshops in Iran in collaboration with Oxford Centre for EBM to teach faculty members and health professionals how to practice and teach evidence based medicine. Also she is Director of Clinical Effectiveness and Guideline Adaptation program in the university and Iranian Urology Association. Her current research interests include female urology-UDS, evidence based urology, and evidence based medicine in developing countries.
Lawrence Yeung, MD
Lawrence “Larry” Yeung, of Naples, Florida, is an Assistant Professor and Director of Male Reconstruction, Urinary Incontinence, and Erectile Dysfunction at the University of Florida. He completed his urology residency at the University of Florida. He did a fellowship in Trauma and Reconstructive Urology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Larry has an interest in evidence based medicine focusing on its application to reconstructive urology and clinical practice guidelines.
Steven E. Canfield, MD
Dr. Canfield is currently an Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, Texas. He is the Program Director for the Urology Residency and Chief of Urology at LBJ General Hospital. He received his urology training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and his urologic oncology training at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. His interests are in promoting the principles of EBM to the urological community through various educational formats and applying those principles to evidence-based guideline development for urology.
J. Chandra Singh, MD
Chandra Singh is an Associate Professor of Urology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India. Currently he is pursuing a fellowship in Pediatric Urology at the Ohio State University. He is an assistant editor of the Indian Journal of Urology. He has conducted workshops on evidence based urology and medical writing in the national conference of the Urological Society of India. Additionally, he is a member of the Urological Society of India guidelines panel. Apart from conducting workshops for postgraduate trainees and urologists in practice, he is a co-moderator for the e-group UROEducation, a forum for faculty and trainees which enables urologists to have active discussions on various aspects of urology.
Jan Willem Mazel
Jan Willem Mazel, of Heemstede, The Netherlands, completed his medical education at the University of Leiden. His formal urology training was conducted at the University of Leiden and the HAGA hospital in The Hague. He has since then worked as a urologist at the Free University Medical Center in Amsterdam and is currently at the Spaarne hospital in Hoofddorp. His interest in EBM was raised by a thesis on EBM in orthopedic surgery by R.W. Poolman, a Dutch orthopedic surgeon. In 2007, he was introduced to Philipp Dahm and together they have worked on several EBM-related projects in the field of Urology. In March 2011 they organized the first European School of Urology (ESU) course on EBM for urologists at the annual congress of the European Association of Urology (EAU) in Vienna.
Roger L. Sur, MD
Roger L. Sur is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery at UC San Diego. He received his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, his Urological residency from Naval Medical Center San Diego, and completed his Laparoscopy/ Endourology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. During his fellowship he completed a formal course in Biostastics and Clinical Research. Since then he has published and become active in the education of evidence based medicine with a monthly UC San Diego urology resident curriculum. He is also the instructor of the annual "Biostatistics for Urologists" course at the AUA Basic Science for Urology Residents.
Candidate Members
Frank Kunath, MD
Frank Kunath is currently a resident-in-training in Urology at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen (Germany). He completed his medical training at Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen and spent one year at the German Cochrane Center supported by a Ferdinand Eisenberger grant of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (German Society of Urology). He is a member of the German Society of Urology, of the European Society of Urology, of the Society of Endourology, and of the German Network for Evidence Based Medicine. His interest in evidence based medicine focuses on trial registration in urology, aspects of good publication practice such as the use of reporting guidelines, and the preparation of systematic reviews.
Luke T. Lavallée, BSc, MDCM
Luke T. Lavallée is a chief resident in the Division of Urology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He completed an undergraduate degree in biochemistry (BSc-Hon) and his medical degree (MDCM) at McGill University where he was awarded the Elizabeth Ann Munro Gordon Prize and the Ronald Douglas Naymark Award for leadership and professionalism. He is interested in evidence-based urology and outcomes research. To further these interests, he is going to pursue a Masters Degree in Clinical Epidemiology (Clinician Investigators Program) and a Urologic Oncology Fellowship at the University of Ottawa.
Mark A. Preston, MD, FRCSC
Dr. Preston is a certified Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada after finishing medical school and Urology residency training at the University of Ottawa. He is currently the Urologic Oncology Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital while concurrently completing a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is published in several peer-reviewed journals with research interests in clinical outcomes, health services research and evidence-based medical education.
