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Physician representatives from Duke Urology joined a recent roundtable with Congressman Greg Murphy, MD, an actively practicing urologist in Greenville, NC.

Duke Urology residents and fellows had an exciting day in the Duke Surgical Education and Activities Lab (SEAL).

Third-year urology resident Hasan Jhaveri, MD, is featured as the Reviewer of the Month in the December 2024 issue of the Journal of Urology.

In this video, Andrew C. Peterson, MD, MPH, describes the study “The Artificial Urinary Sphincter Improves Depression, Anxiety and Overall Emotional Health in Men With Stress Urinary Incontinence; Analysis of the Artificial Urinary Sphincter Clinical Outcomes Trial (AUSCO),” which he presented at the 2024 Sexual Medicine Society of North America Fall Scientific Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona.

On November 11, 2024, Duke University Hospital opened a special unit for urology procedures in the old 4200 area of Duke North.

Rosalia Misseri MD, Professor and Chief of Urology at Riley Children’s Hospital at Indiana University in Indianapolis, was the 2024 John Dees Lecturer.

Prostate-cancer researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) have published a new study that may solve one of the mysteries of advanced metastatic prostate cancer: why do Black men experience a greater survival benefit from a personalized immunotherapy called sipuleucel-T immunotherapy than white men, when both groups have cancer that is resistant to hormonal therapy? Until now, the reasons baffled clinicians and researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers (DPUC).

On October 14th, Aaron Lentz. MD, and Duke Urology of Raleigh were recognized by Coloplast as a Titan Inflatable Prosthesis Center of Excellence — the first in the Southeastern U.S. 

Michael Lipkin, MD, MBA, recently appeared on Endourology Sound Bites, a podcast series featuring experts in the field. He discussed various aspects of ureteroscopy that may affect outcome and complication rates.

Duke Pediatric Urology again was named #19 in the 2024 U.S. News and World Report Best Children’s Hospitals for Urology rankings.