Huge congratulations to my friend and collaborator Himanshu Nagar on this well deserved achievement! We will certainly miss his clinical skill and research leadership at WCM - but the future is bright!

📢We are overjoyed to announce that Dr Himanshu Nagar will be joining Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center this summer as our Genitourinary Cancer Disease site leader. Dr Nagar is a compassionate clinician & innovative researcher. We are excited to see where he leads our GU #radonc team!

Blake Cady’s original “Biology Is King” paper. Principals Of Oncology. A must read for all cancer doctors. ⁦Lee M. Ocuin MD, FACS⁩ ⁦Steven D Wexner MD, PhD⁩ ⁦Niraj J. Gusani, MD 🇺🇸⁩ ⁦Jennifer Tseng (IG: @tsengjennifermd)⁩ ⁦@mkatzmd⁩ ⁦Jash Datta, MD⁩ ⁦Julie Hallet⁩

Our new paper was published online today at Cancer Discovery. If you are attending #AACR2024 , please visit our poster today to hear the first author, Dr. Yaru Xu, discuss her fascinating work. PCF Science UTSW Simmons Cancer Center

Register now for this upcoming CME course on cutting edge treatments in GU oncology 🦀.

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Featuring amazing faculty Chris Anderson james mckiernan Ojas Shah Izak Faiena #joeldecastro Katie Spina (she/her) Mark Stein Dr. John Sfakianos Chris Barbieri … and more!

Prostate cancer cases are expected to double from 1.4 million per year in 2020 to 2.9 million per year by 2040, new analysis suggests.

More from the Lancet Commission on #ProstateCancer in-thread 🧵

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RESEARCH RECOGNITION: Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh, MD, a second-year MPH student on the Epidemiology Track, had his research on the side effects of prostate cancer treatment featured by the NIH!

Read the full piece: ow.ly/Olug50QIpvG

#VandyMed #VandyMPH

🧵regarding the 117 deaths in The Iliad where Homer provided details about the mechanism of injury:

Here we will run an M&M conference to consider whether these deaths might have been preventable if the Achaeans and Trojans had modern Level 1 trauma centers at the time.
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Great night and event raising awareness for #prostatecancer by supporting ZERO Prostate Cancer at #BlueJacketFashionShow .
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Please click to support: zerocancer.org/bluejacket

You’ve trained and prepared him well- we’ll take good care of him! Weill Cornell Medicine Urology WCM GU Cancer WCM Prostate SPORE

What a day of emotions.

Sense of loss mixed with pride and pure happiness as we PREPARE to send Runzhuo Ma off to Weill Cornell Medicine Urology - my alma mater with friends Dr.Larissa Rodriguez Jim Hu Chris Barbieri Philip S. Li

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NIH Modular R01 Grant mechanisms: $250,000 / year.

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NIH Modular R01 Grant mechanisms: $250,000 / year.

25 years with no adjustment for inflation means scientists have lost ~48% of purchasing power while having to cover an increasing portion of salary and costs.

Graphical abstract of my hypothesis why there are more fractures in the testosterone arm:

So proud of Bashir Al Hussein and looking forward to having him back at Weill Cornell Medicine Urology building his research program! WCM GU Cancer WCM Prostate SPORE Weill Cornell Medicine Population Health Sciences

Please join us in congratulating Filipe LF Carvalho of Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Urology, the recipient of BCAN's 2023 Career Development Award. Dr. De Carvalho's project will study overcoming resistance to chemo and IO in patients with MIBC .Click to read more: bcan.org/awardee-of-202…

good NPR episode about a hospital that tried to replace pagers with encrypted text messaging and failed

basically the encrypted texts meant the friction was so low to get a consult that people started bombarding the on-call residents and they essentially stopped responding to…

We raised over $400,000 for NYP by running the 2023 TCT New York Marathon! NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine Urology New York Section AUA

1/n Today we've started a legal campaign to break down state telehealth licensure restrictions. The fact that MD specialists, already licensed in their home state, must also obtain full licensure in every state where their potential patients reside violates the US Constitution🧵

Great work by our collaborators and lab neighbors, the Chandwani lab! This paper has been a long time coming and raises a bunch of interesting ideas about susceptibility to oncogenic transformation.

The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath.

Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, was aboard a…