AWARDS

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•  2007

CapCURE Award from the American Urological Association (AUA) & Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), for Best Clinical Study: “Variations in cancer outcomes among experienced surgeons performing radical prostatectomy”

Nominee for Excellence in Delivery of Care “Baldrige Physician of the Month Award”  George Washington University Hospital

• 2006               

CapCURE Award from the American Urological Association (AUA) & Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), for Best Clinical Study: “Studies on androgen deprivationtherapy for a rising PSA after prostatectomy: development of castrate metastasis(HRPC)”

Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, “Impact of surgeon experience on cancer control outcome after radical prostatectomy”

Merit Award from the II Prostate Cancer Symposium, “Clinical Course of men with a rising PSA after prostatectomy: factors determining metastasis and survival”

•  2005 – 2006

Allbritton Foundation Urologic Oncology Research Scholar

•  2005 

Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, “Duration and response to androgen deprivation therapy: Complete response defined as a PSA nadir <0.2 ng/ml and its survival implications”

Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award for research in Prostate Cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Canter.

Merit Award from the I Prostate Cancer Symposium, “Natural history of men with a rising PSA after androgen deprivation therapy in the absence of castrate metastasis”

•  2004 – 2005

Koch Foundation Urologic Oncology Research Scholar

•  2004

Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, “Duration and response to androgen deprivation therapy and survival after subsequent biochemical relapse in men treated with a radical prostatectomy”

• 2003 - 2005

Urologic Oncology Research Scholar for the American Foundation of Urologic Disease - AUA Foundation “Molecular Characterization of the Natural History of Prostate Cancer”, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Canter.

•  2003

 Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award for research in Prostate Cancer at Wayne State University

 Best Scientific Study, Urothelial Tumors Session of the XVIIIth European Association of Urology Meeting:  “Comparison of clinical outcome of conventional high-grade invasive TCC with TCC exhibiting aggressive features”

•  2002

Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award for research in Prostate Cancer at Wayne State University

Best Clinical Scientific Research Award presented at the 75th Annual North Central Section meeting of the AUA, “Prostate cancer stage-shift has eliminated the gap in survival between African-American and Caucasian men after radical prostatectomy”

•  2001

First Prize, Residents Essay Contest, Michigan Urological Society and Top 50 papers presented at the 96th AUA Annual Meeting : “African-American prostate cancer stage shift: impact for screening”

•  2000

Second Prize, Residents Essay Contest, Michigan Urological Society: “Proliferation of bone marrow prostate cancer micrometastatic cells predicts recurrence in patients with localized prostate cancer”