UROLOGY

STAFF

Associate Professors:

Pode, D., M.D. (Head of Department)

Shapiro, A., M.D.

Senior Lecturers:

Landau, E.H. (Head of Pediatric Urology)

Gofrit, N.O.

Lecturer:

Katz, R.

Physicians participatingin Teaching:

Duvdevani, M.

Gdor  Y.

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Urology is engaged in all aspects of modern urological practice including urologic oncology, endo-urology and laparoscopic surgery, ESWL, pediatric urology, female urology, andrology, genitourinary infections, reconstructive urology, and prosthetics, at the Hadassah University Hospitals at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus.

Current clinical research projects of the Department include:

§         Screening for bladder cancer using new, non-invasive methods.

§         Comparison of intravesical BCG with intravesical chemotherapy combined with hyperthermia (Synergo), for high risk, superficial bladder cancer.

§         The role of prostate inflammation in the development of prostate cancer.

§         Prevention of recurrent urinary stones using drug therapy.

§         Prevention of urinary tract infection due to catheters, stents and invasive procedures.

§         Laboratory investigations include:

§         Gene therapy of bladder cancer using human tumors in SCID mice and rodent bladder cancer model in rats.

§         Use of molecular techniques for prediction of the efficacy of intra-vesical immunotherapy against superficial bladder cancer.

§         Use of transgenic mice for exploration of the carcinogenesis of prostate cancer.

§         Identification of prostate cancer by examination of the prostatic secretions.

RESEARCH AREAS

§         Prevention of urinary tract infections. (Pode, Duvdevani)

§         Chronic inflammation of the prostate. (Pode)

§         Prevention of recurrent kidney stones. (Pode, Duvdevani)

§         Non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of bladder cancer. (Pode, Shapiro)

§         Gene therapy and immunotherapy of superficial bladder cancer. (Shapiro, Gofrit, Utkin)

§         Carcinogenesis of prostate cancer. (Utkin, Pikarsky)

§         Reconstructive procedures of congenital genito-urinary malformations. (Landau) 

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