Physician Directory

Karim Chamie, MD, MSHS

Specialty: Bladder Cancer, Clinical Trials, Kidney Cancer, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Prostate Cancer, Urologic Oncology

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Assistant Professor-in-Residence of Urology and Urologic Oncology Fellowship Director. He attended Medical School at USC and completed Urological training at UC Davis. Dr. Chamie then completed a SUO certified fellowship in Urologic Oncology at UCLA. His primary research interests are health services research and clinical trials in bladder cancer. His clinical interests include all areas of urologic oncology, with a particular emphasis on bladder cancer and robotic surgery. More >

Alexandra Drakaki, MD, PhD

Specialty: Clinical Trials, Urologic Oncology

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Assistant Professor in Urology and Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Drakaki completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Tufts University, and her Hematology/Oncology fellowship in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. She specializes in genitourinary malignancies, primarily bladder, testicular and prostate cancer. Dr. Drakaki's research focuses on identifying the therapeutic potential of novel genes named micro-RNAs that are involved in bladder carcinogenesis. More >

Leonard S. Marks, MD

Specialty: Clinical Trials, General Adult Urology, Prostate Cancer, Urologic Oncology

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Professor of Urology, completed training at UCLA in 1978. Received an American Foundation for Urologic Diseases scholarship award and a prostate cancer Foundation research award. His current research interests involve prostate markers, imaging, and minimally-invasive treatments. More >

Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, FACS

Specialty: Bladder Cancer, Clinical Trials, General Adult Urology, Kidney Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Urologic Oncology

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Professor of Urology and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for Urology. Dr. Pantuck specializes in urologic cancers and has a long standing interest in kidney, prostate, bladder cancers, developing new treatment strategies through basic and clinical research and in the study of nutritional approaches to their prevention and treatment. More >

Robert E. Reiter, MD

Specialty: Bladder Cancer, Clinical Trials, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Prostate Cancer, Urologic Oncology

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Professor of Urology, Professor of Molecular Biology, Chief of the Division of Urologic Oncology, Director of the Prostate Cancer Program, Director of Urologic Research, Co-Director of the Genitourinary Oncology Program in UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center. Dr. Reiter attended Stanford Medical School, completed urologic training at Stanford and Baylor College of Medicine, completed additional fellowship training in urological cancer at the National Cancer Institute. His clinical interests include all areas of urologic oncology, with an emphasis on prostate cancer. He specializes in robotically-assisted prostatectomy and cystectomy, as well as open surgery, with robotic experience dating back to 2004, for bladder, prostate, and renal malignancies. Dr. Reiter is involved in all aspects of urologic oncology, with an emphasis on prostate cancer, and brings extensive experience in robotic surgery and the applications of translational research and the latest in MRI and molecular imaging to the management of men with this disease. More >

Matthew Rettig, MD

Specialty: Clinical Trials, Prostate Cancer

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Matthew Rettig, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, and the Department of Urology, and is the Medical Director of the Prostate Cancer Program of the Institute of Urologic Oncology at UCLA. Dr. Rettig received his medical degree from Duke University and internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, before going on to a hematology-oncology fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Rettig’s focus is on management of genitourinary malignancies, with a clinical emphasis on advanced prostate cancer and research emphasis on identifying biochemical targets for therapeutic translation in castration-resistant prostate cancer and clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Dr. Rettig also serves as the director of the clinical trials program in prostate cancer at UCLA. More >

Nazy Zomorodian, RNC, MSN, CUNP, CCRC

Specialty: Clinical Trials, Urologic Oncology

Practice Location: Urology, Westwood Adult

Ms. Zomorodian is the Director of the Genitourinary Clinical Trials and a Nurse Practitioner for the Department of Urology. She received her BS and Masters of Science in Nursing from the Hahnermann University in Philadelphia and is working on her PhD in Research Nursing at UCLA. Ms. Zomorodian is also certified by the Association of Clinical Research Professional as a Clinical Research Coordinator. She has extensive experience in managing and conducting cancer research and she also works closely with UCLA's urologic and medical oncology principal investigators in basic research. Ms. Zomorodian regularly instructs physicians, fellows, residents and nurses on all aspects of clinical trials for kidney, prostate and bladder cancers. More >