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 an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research for 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 for four consecutive years and most recently, organized the first freestanding AUA-sponsored 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 member of the AUA Core Curriculum Taskforce for the section “Evidence based medicine and clinical trials.”
Charles D. Scales, Jr, MD
Charles “Chuck” D. Scales, Jr is a resident in Urologic Surgery at Duke University. A graduate of both the Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard University, he was awarded his MD from Duke University in 2004. His research endeavors in health services and outcomes have been recognized by a training grant from the National Institutes of Health, selection as a CaPSURE Scholar and as a finalist for the Montague Boyd Essay Contest. Dr. Scales’ current research activities focus on evidence based clinical practice and clinical research methodology in urology, as well as urologic healthcare delivery. Recent methodology investigations include evaluations of statistical methods in the urology literature, randomized controlled trial (RCT) reporting in urology, and the effect of the CONSORT statement on statistical methods in urologic RCTs.
Timothy Tseng, MD
Timothy “Tim” Tseng, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, is currently a urology chief resident at Duke University. He will be entering the endourology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 2009. His primary interests lie in endourology with an emphasis on stone disease. Dr. Tseng firmly believes that evidence based medicine provides a rational foundation for determining the most appropriate course of treatment. His interest in evidence based medicine revolves around determining best evidence based practices in urology and developing the means to better apply them to clinical research.
Rodney Breau, MD
Rodney Breau, born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, received his undergraduate and medical training at Dalhousie University and his urology training at the University of Ottawa. He is currently completing a Masters degree in clinical research and a urological oncology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His evidence based medicine interests include, but are not limited to, clinical trial reporting and EBM education in urology.
Sakineh Hajebrahimi, MD
Sakineh Hajebrahimi is currently an Associate Professor in Urology at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. She completed her medical training at Uromia Medical School and finished her specialty training at Tabriz Medical School. She is the founder of the first Iranian center for evidence based medicine and is currently serving as its director. Her current research interests include female urology, UDS, neurourology and female sexual dysfunction.
Lawrence Yeung, MD
Lawrence “Larry” Yeung, of Naples, Florida, is currently a senior urology resident at the University of Florida. He attained his undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Biological and Medical Sciences from the University of Florida and his medical degree from the University of Florida as well. He spent a year in Jacksonville, Florida performing an internship in emergency medicine prior to switching specialties and returning to Gainesville to perform a general surgery internship and then ultimately a urology residency. Larry has an interest in evidence based medicine focusing on its application to urologic oncology, clinical practice guidelines and graduate medical education.
Steven E Canfield, MD
Steven Canfield is currently an Assistant Professor of Urology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Medical School in Houston, Texas. He is also Chief of Urology at LBJ General Hospital, one of Houston’s county hospitals. He received his urology training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, his urologic oncology training at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and further robotic prostatectomy training at University of Pennsylvania. His interests are in promoting the principles of EBM in training programs and improving the quality of the urologic literature. He is the director of the urology EBM curriculum for the UT urology residency and is involved in a number of EBM workshops.
J. Chandra Singh, MD
Chandra Singh is an Associate Professor of Urology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India. He is an assistant editor of the Indian Journal of Urology and associate editor of Journal of Medical Case Reports. 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 has started an e-group UROEDUCATION, a forum for faculty and trainees which currently has more than 1100 members.
Jan Willem Mazel
Jan Willem Mazel, of Hengelo, 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 are currently working on several EBM-related projects in the field of Urology.
Tracey Krupski, MD, MPH
Tracey Krupski is currently an Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Virginia (UVA). After completing her urology residency at UVA, she completed a urologic oncology fellowship at the University of California in Los Angeles and obtained a Masters in Public Health with a focus in health services research. She has been an active prostate cancer researcher with publications and grants centering around quality of care measures. She has attended the Duke University EBM Workshop on how to teach EBM, has been a faculty member for the AUA postgraduate EBM course for three consecutive years and has published several EBM articles in urology journals. Active memberships include the AUA, American Society of Clinical Oncologists and Society for Women in Urology.
Shian Shiang Wang, MD
Shian Shiang Wang is a urologist at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, a medical center located in middle Taiwan. His main clinical interests are urologic oncology and minimal invasive surgery. He first became involved in EBM by attending the Oxford Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in 2007. From this experience he gained a vast knowledge in teaching in which he uses to teach medical students and residents the importance of EBM. He is specifically interested in the critical appraisal of articles.
Roger Sur, MD
Roger Sur is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. 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. He currently is the course director of the annual AUA Biostatistics course and enjoys teaching urology residents concepts in EBM.
