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The UCLA Department of Urology provides cutting edge diagnosis and treatments, and supports a staff of renowned physicians, surgeons and researchers. Demonstrating continued excellence in the field of Urology, the UCLA Department of Urology along with its varied Centers of Excellence, is often the subject of stories in newspapers, magazines, and journals. The Department also frequently issues news releases to keep the community informed on the latest developments in urology, the treatments available at UCLA, and various milestones within the Department. We include here a collection of recent stories, and an archive of older articles, for your further information.
May 12, 2023
Dr. Jesse Mills, director of the Men's Clinic at UCLA, provided commentary to Giddy regarding penile vibratory stimulation.
May 10, 2023
Dr. Alexandra Drakaki, Assistant Clinical Professor of Urology and Hematology/Oncology, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times regarding Dolph Lungren’s cancer diagnosis and the value of second opinions.
May 8, 2023
Dr. Brian Shuch, Director of the Kidney Cancer Program and the Alvin & Carrie Meinhardt Endowed Chair in Kidney Cancer Research at UCLA, provided expert commentary to Cancer Network about how imaging with 89Zr-DFO-Girentuximab may better identify kidney tumors.
May 8, 2023
Dr. Jeffrey Veale, director of the kidney transplantation exchange program and professor of UCLA Urology, spoke with Renal & Urology News about the pros and cons of robotic-assisted vs open kidney translation.
May 5, 2023
Dr. Jesse Mills, director of the Men's Clinic at UCLA, was interviewed by Giddy regarding penile revascularization.
April 27, 2023
Women’s Health interviewed Dr. Stephanie Pannell, urologist at Santa Monica Urology, about common causes for unusual urine odor.
April 27, 2023
Men’s Health featured Dr. Juan Andino, UCLA urology andrology and infertility fellow, about the signs of erectile dysfunction.
April 25, 2023
Dr. Wayne Brisbane, assistant professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, provided expert commentary to Urology Times about Unfold AI, an artificial intelligence (AI)–powered software application program, being used for the management of patients with prostate cancer.
April 5, 2023
VICE highlighted expert commentary from Dr. Jesse Mills, director of the Men's Clinic at UCLA, about whether testosterone treatment affects a person’s politics.
April 3, 2023
Nazy Zomorodian, NP, Director of the Genitourinary Clinical Trials Unit and Assistant Professor and Nurse Practitioner for the UCLA Urology, provided commentary to cancernetwork regarding the FDA’s approval of enfortumab vedotin-ejfv (Padcev) plus pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as a combination therapy for patients with urothelial cancer.
February 24, 2023
Dr. Rajiv Jayadevan, an assistant professor of urology at UCLA and male fertility specialist at The Men’s Clinic at UCLA, provided expert commentary to Men’s Health about whether weed affects testosterone.
February 24, 2023
Men’s Health interviewed Dr. Jesse Mills, director of the Men's Clinic at UCLA, about what testosterone can and cannot do.
February 15, 2023
President Biden has appointed Dr. Richard Boxer, Clinical Professor of UCLA Urology, to the National Cancer Advisory Board, which plays an important role in helping guide the director of the National Cancer Institute to set the course for the national cancer research program.
February 7, 2023
UCLA Health Connect shares that more men are taking active steps toward birth control, according to Dr. Jesse Mills, Professor of Urology and Director of The Men’s Clinic at UCLA.
February 6, 2023
Men’s Health interviewed Dr. Rajiv Jayadevan, an assistant professor of urology at UCLA and male fertility specialist at The Men’s Clinic at UCLA, about whether sex increases testosterone levels.
February 6, 2023
Men’s Health spoke to Dr. Rajiv Jayadevan, an assistant professor of urology at UCLA and male fertility specialist at The Men’s Clinic at UCLA, about what to know about taking tongkat ali to boost testosterone.
February 1, 2023
Dr. Rajiv Jayadevan, an assistant professor of urology at UCLA and male fertility specialist at The Men’s Clinic at UCLA, provided expert commentary to Men’s Health regarding free (unbound) testosterone.
February 1, 2023
Dr. Rajiv Jayadevan, an assistant professor of urology at UCLA and male fertility specialist at The Men’s Clinic at UCLA, spoke with Men’s Health about the value of a testosterone test.
January 23, 2023
Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of UCLA Urology, was presented the Joseph A. Smith, Jr. Mentorship Award at the 2022 Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting. In this interview with Urology Times, he describes the best ways to be the most effective mentor based on his own experience. Litwin is professor and chair of urology at University of California, Los Angeles.
January 19, 2023
The UCLA Gender Health Program care coordination team is the recipient of a Cultural North Star Team Award. This award recognizes the teamwork that serves as the cornerstone of the collaborative environment at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
January 15, 2023
Urban heat islands, redlining and kidney stones The persistent rise in kidney stone prevalence in recent decades has prompted much speculation as to the causes. There has been some discussion about the effect of heat on nephrolithiasis. A review of recent data suggests that heat may play a role in stone formation on a large scale and among African-Americans in particular. A new UCLA-led study led by Dr. Kymora B. Scotland states that African-Americans are the race/ancestry group with faster rates of increasing incidence and prevalence of kidney stones. Researchers also found that urban heat islands in the United States have resulted in part from the effects of redlining, a practice of systematic segregation and racism in housing that led to the development of neighborhoods with substantial disparities in environmental conditions. Dr. Scotland and her team hypothesize that the increased temperatures experienced by residents in redlined communities, many of whom are African American may contribute to the 150% increase in the prevalence of kidney stones in African Americans in recent decades. Read the study in the January 1, 2023 issue of Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension.
January 13, 2023
UroToday/GU Onc Today reports that Dr. Isla P. Garraway, associate professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and member of the Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, is a featured panelist on the Prostate Cancer Foundations's newly established health equities panel creating prostate cancer screening guidelines for Black men in the United States.
January 2, 2023
Urology Times provides expert commentary from Dr. Karim Chamie, associate professor of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about the interim findings from an ongoing study (NCT03022825) looking at the safety and efficacy of combining Nogapendekin alfa inbakicept (NAI) with BCG intravesical instillation for the treatment of BCG-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).1
