Doctors in the News

(source) Daniel B. Herz, MD, a pediatric urologist, has joined the Section of Urology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital as a director of RALP. January 23, 2012 Irving Smokler, PhD, president of The NephCure Foundation, has been appointed to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease advisory council. January 3, 2012 (source) Peter…

(source) Beth Piraino, MD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has been appointed President of the National Kidney Foundation. October 23, 2012 (source) Richard J. Quigg Jr., MD, has been named the inaugural Arthur M. Morris Chair in Nephrology and the chief of the Division of Nephrology at SUNY Buffalo.…

Carl T. Reese, MD, has been appointed the associate chief of surgery at the Lebanon VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania. September 25, 2012 (source) Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE, has received a $200,000 Career Development Grant, a partnership between The NephCure Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology. September 18, 2012 (source) Anup R. Shah, MD,…

(source) Steven K. Scheinman, MD, a board-certified nephrologist, has been named the president and dean of The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC). August 2, 2012 (source) Kumarpal Shrishrimal, MD, MS, a board-certified nephrologist, has joined the RenalCare Associates physician group of the Illinois Kidney Disease & Hypertension Center (IKDHC). August 1, 2012 (source) John W. Hsu,…

(source) Pasquale Casale, MD, has been appointed chief of pediatric urology at New York Presbyterian and professor of urology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. July 16, 2012 (source) R.D. Levin, MD, FACS, a board-certified urologist, has joined Chesapeake Urology Associates. July 9, 2012 (source) Sunil K. Soi, MD, of Laurel Kidney Specialists…

(source) Ashutosh K. Tewari, MB, BS, of Weill Cornell Medical Center was awarded the Gold Cystoscope Award from the American Urological Association. May 24, 2012 (source) David B. Samadi, MD, Vice Chairman of the Department of Urology and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, has performed his 4000th robotic-assisted…

(source) Brian J.G. Pereira, MD, has been appointed director of NephroPlus, a chain of dialysis centers. April 30, 2012 (source) Venkata R. Jayanthi, MD, has been appointed chief of pediatric urology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH. April 18, 2012 (source) J. Christian Winters, MD, chairman of urology at LSU Health Sciences Center New…

Benjamin K. Canales, MD, MPH, of the University of Florida is one of the recipients of the AUA Foundation/Astellas Rising Stars in Urology Award program, a $1.2 million independent educational grant that provides five-year funding for academic urologists. His project, “The Effect of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Renal Function and Metabolism,” will be conducted under…