Department of Urology
Faculty Members
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 Richard J. Macchia, MD, FACS
Ivan Colón, MD
Llewellyn Hyacinthe, MD
Mark Horowitz, MD, FAAP
Wellman Cheung, MD
Nicholas Karanikolas, MD
Jeffrey Weiss, MD
Dale Distant, MD
Erich Lang, MD
Gobind B. Laungani, MD
William Blank, MD
Marc W. Plawker, MD
Andrew J. Combs, RPA-C
Keith Waterhouse, MD
Peter T. Scardino, MD
Joel Sheinfeld, MD
Motria M. Mishko, Pharm.D
Karen Byer Eisenberg, RN MPS
Lynette Boissiere, RN
Alumnists Who have Joined
 Our Core or Voluntary Faculty
After Graduation
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Richard J. Macchia, MD, FACS was appointed professor and chairman of the Department of Urology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical School (SUNY-Downstate) in 1988. He is also Chief of Urology at Downstate University Hospital and Kings County Hospital Center. He has been program director for the urology training program since 1982. In December, 2003 he was appointed Consultant, Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).
Following his graduation from New York Medical College in 1969, he underwent general surgical training at St. Vincent's Hospital Center in New York City. He then completed his urology residency under Dr. Keith Waterhouse at Downstate. He was awarded the F.C. Valentine Fellowship of the New York Academy of Medicine. That fellowship was served under Dr. Willet F. Whitmore, Jr. at MSKCC.
Dr. Macchia served as the chairperson of the Section on Urology of the New York Academy of Medicine and a member of its Advisory Council for 6 years. He is a past chairman of the Academy's Edwin Beer Fund Committee. He was President of the New York Section of the American Urological Association in 1995-1996 and the Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island Urology Society. His memberships include the Society for Urologic Oncology, the Society of University Urologists, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and many others. Dr. Macchia is a former associate editor of Urology, currently manuscript reviewer for Urology, the Journal of Urology and others, abstract review team leader and a regular moderator at scientific sessions for the annual meeting of the AUA. He has served as a study section member for the California Cancer Research Program and the NIH. He founded, named and chaired for five years the Clinical Chairs Group at SUNY Downstate.
Under his leadership the residency training program has been completely reinvigorated and now incoporates 7 integrated hospitals, including MSKCC, and 17 core faculty members. His department holds a full 5 year ACGME accreditation with no citations and no recommendations. Approximately 92 students (perhaps the most from any school in the nation) from Downstate have entered urology training since the inception of the AUA Residency Matching Program in 1985.
He and his colleagues were awarded second prize for research at the annual meeting of the AUA in 1980 and 1982 for their early NIH funded work on the relationship of androgen receptors and prostate cancer. An early proponent of alternatives to radical cystectomy, he was guest editor of a special issue of Urology (Vol. 31, 1988) devoted to this subject. He has been a member of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and is currently a member of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG). He also has a special interest in urologic legal and ethical issues. The AUA recently passed a Code of Ethics which, in part because of his long time efforts, includes a section on academic integrity. He is currently PI for an NIH/NCI grant.
Dr. Macchia has lectured at numerous academic institutions and meetings in the US, Europe and Japan. He has also co-authored over 100 scientific articles and abstracts including 26 textbook chapters and proceedings. He has been co-investigator on many collaborative projects and holds an NCI grant as principal investigator. He serves on the external advisory boards of several internationally renowned institutions.
New York magazine named him as one of "The Best Doctors in New York City" on numerous occasions. In 1994, he was named an honorary alumnus of SUNY - Downstate Medical School, received the New York Medical College Alumni Association Medal of Honor, the "Gender Equity Award" from the American Medical Women's Association, and the Downstate University Hospital Community Advisory Board service award. In 1995, he was elected a faculty member of the AOA medical honor society. In 1997, he received a recognition award from the Daniel Hale Williams Society, an organization of Afro-American and Latino medical students. The Chancellor of State University of New York appointed him to the rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1997. In 1998, the NY - AUA awarded him the Russell Lavengood Service Award, he was selected to accompany Dr. Robert Furchgott to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize and was designated Master Teacher in Urology by the Downstate Alumni Association. In May, 2003 the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health presented him with its “Leadership in Urban Medicine Award.” In June, 2005 Dr. Macchia was presented with the first ever Suny Downstate College of Nursing Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award. In 2005 Maimonides Medical Center named him its 19th annual Immergul Lecturer. He was named as the physician honoree at the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the founding of Kings County Hospital Center in November 2006.
Ivan Colón, MD is Assistant Professor of Urology. He came to Downstate having completed a prestigious fellowship in endo-laparasopic urology at Cedars-Sinai Endourology Institute under the guidance of Dr. Gerhard Fuchs, a world-reknowned surgeon and researcher.
Dr. Colón has already garnered a number of awards for his surgical expertise and research work. He has presented papers, in numerous occasions, at the American Urological Association annual meetings as well as the annual meeting at American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Urology. Most recently, his outstanding work will be presented at the World Congress of Endourology in Genoa, Italy. He is actively engaged in a variety of IRB approved research protocols and has additional research papers in preparation.
He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and continued there to receive his M.D. degree in 1994. In 1995 he finished his internship year in general surgery at Loyola University Medical Center, in Maywood, Illinois. Dr. Colón completed his urology residency in 2001 at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
Dr. Colón’s areas of expertise include: Laparoscopy, endourology, stone and oncologic diseases, general and minimally invasive urology. Laparoscopically, Dr. Colón is able to perform the removal of adrenal glands, kidneys, prostates and much more, for a variety of conditions, via very tiny incisions. Most of his patients are able to go home after major surgery in 24-48 hours, with minimal pain and the majority of them are able to resume normal daily activities in less than 2 weeks. He is currently the only trained-laparoscopic urologic surgeon in the borough of Brooklyn.
After his time spent at the Endourology Institute, he is able to bring new and very exciting modalities of treatment to the New York area, including the technique of cryotherapy. Cryotherapy is a proven and effective new minimally invasive treatment for prostate and renal cancer. Other minimally invasive techniques that Dr. Colón offers are: retrograde intra-renal surgery for stones and tumors of the kidney without incisions; prostatic microwave thermotherapy and prostatic evaporization via laser for prostatic enlargement and laser treatment of other urological conditions.
In February 2008 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the Department of Urology
Llewellyn Hyacinthe, MD was appointed to the position of Clinical Instructor in Urology in July, 1998 and joined the staff at University Hospital Brooklyn. In July, 2000 he was appointed to the position of Assistant Director of Urology at Kings County Hospital Center.
Dr. Hyacinthe received his undergraduate education at Yale University and his medical education the University of Pittsburg School of Mecidine. He completed his urology residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in June, 1996. He is certified by the American Board of Urology.
Dr. Hyacinthe is an accomplished clinician and is overseeing the brachytherapy, the ESWL, laser and laparoscopic surgery programs at KCHC while continuing as an attending urologist at UHB and TBH.
Mark Horowitz, MD, FAAP is Assistant Professor of Urology. He was appointed Director, Division of Pediatric Urology on March 1, 2003. After graduating from New York Medical College in 1986, he completed his urology residency at SUNY Downstate, where he received an award for outstanding research. Dr. Horowitz continued his training at the Children’s Hospital of Seattle under Dr. Mike Mitchell during a two-year fellowship in pediatric urology. Dr. Horowitz is a Board certified pediatric urologist and a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. His practice is based at SUNY Downstate, SIUH and LICH.
His major interests have been in the use of intestine in the reconstruction of the urinary tract and in the urodynamic evaluation of children with voiding dysfunction.
Dr. Horowitz is one of the leading surgeons performing laparoscopic procedures in the evaluation and treatment of multiple anomalies, including intersex, undescended testicles, varicoceles and renal pathologies.
Our graduating chief residents have named him “Teacher of the Year” on 3 occasions.
Dr. Horowitz is a member of the Society for Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons, the American Urological Association and its New York Section, the Society of Pediatric Urologists, the Brooklyn Pediatric Society, the American Association of Pediatric Urologists, the American Association of Clinical Urologists. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Urology.
He has authored multiple textbook chapters and many journal articles in peer reviewed journals. He has presented 60 abstracts to major meetings and has lectured at numerous academic institutions. He organizes and runs the monthly pediatric urology departmental conference and quarterly pediatric urology journal club.
Wellman Cheung, MD is Assistant Professor of Urology. He joined our staff on October 1, 2003. Dr. Cheung graduated from the SUNY Downstate Medical School in 1994 and entered urology residency at SUNY Stony Brook. He then did a year of fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic Florida graduating in 2001.
Dr. Cheung’s areas of expertise are female urology, voiding dysfunction and general urology.
Nicholas Karanikolas, MD Following his graduation from the SUNY Downstate Medical School in 1998, Dr. Karanikolas completed his urology residency here as well in 2004. He was awarded a fellowship in urological oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and will complete that fellowship on December 31, 2006. Dr. Karanikolas is assistant professor in the Department of Urology and he commenced his clinical activities in our department on 1/1/07. He is director of resident research and moderator of the monthly multi-disciplinary uro-oncology conference.
Dr. Weiss was appointed Professor, Department of Urology, SUNY Downstate Medical School department in February, 2008. He will commence a full-time position at the Brooklyn Veterans Affairs Hospital on April 1, 2008. Dr. Weiss received an AB in Biochemistry from Cornell University (cum laude) and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha honor society) in 1978. After a general surgery internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania during which time he served as president of housestaff, he completed his urology residency at the same institution in 1984. Thereafter, he did a fellowship in neurology and urodynamics under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry G. Blaivas.
Dr. Weiss is the primary author of over 200 peer reviewed scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters as well as co-author of 2 urological textbooks. He is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Urological Association, the International Continence Society and is an examiner of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Weiss is currently engaged in research regarding the cause and treatment of nocturia, the treatment of hemorrhagic radiation cystitis, and urologic problems during pregnancy. Dr. Weiss has extensively published and has written numerous editorials. He is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Urology, Urology, British Journal of Urology International, and European Urology. He is the director for the course on nocturia at the annual meeting of the AUA. He is member of the department's Academic Executive Committee.
Dale Distant, MD received a dual appointment to the Department of Urology in October, 2005. He is also Clinical Professor in the Department of Surgery and Director of the Division of Transplantation Surgery.
He received his M.D. degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in 1986 as a member of the Alpha Medical Honor Society. His residency in general surgery was at SUNY Downstate followed by fellowships in renal transplant surgery at SUNY Downstate and in liver transplantation surgery at Baylor University. Since returning to SUNY Downstate in 1993, he has received consistent praise from residents in the Department of Urology for his significant contributions to their education and for his assistance in various clinical cases.
In 2003 he received an award from the graduating chief residents in recognition of his special contributions. Only four individuals outside the department have received this award. Dr. Distant instructs our residents in the technique of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
Erich Lang, MD joined the SUNY Downstate Medical School Faculty in October, 2005. He was appointed Professor in the Department of Radiology and received a dual appointment to the Department of Urology, where he functions as Vice Chairman for Uroradiology. Dr. Lang completed his radiology residency at the Johns Hopkins University. Following residency he served on the faculties at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Indiana prior to moving to the Louisiana State School of Medicine. He served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at LSU in New Orleans from 1976 to 1992. In 1993 he served as visiting Professor of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at the University of Vienna. From 1999 until joining SUNY Downstate he served as Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Urology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans.
Dr. Lang serves on the editorial boards of many journals including the Journal of Urology. He has coauthored over 200 articles in peer reviewed publications. He has authored over 70 chapters in various textbooks and presented countless numbers of papers at national and international meetings. He has been invited speaker at national and international society meetings and refresher courses around the world.
Gobind B. Laungani, MD is associate professor of clinical urology. Following 2 years of surgery training in New York City, Dr. Laungani underwent a fellowship in renal dialysis and transplantation under 2 world renowned physicians, Dr. Eli Friedman and Dr. Samuel Kountz at the SUNY Downstate Medical School.
In 1977, he completed his urology residency under then Chairman, Dr. Keith Waterhouse, after which he joined the faculty of the medical school. Dr. Laungani practices general urology with special emphasis on reconstructive urology including the repair of difficult urethral strictures following trauma. He also has a special interest in lasers in urology. In the 1980s Dr. Laungani performed much of the clinical work leading to the FDA approval of a new extracorporeal shockwave lithotriptor. He has developed his skills in endourology and percutaneous stone manipulation to a high degree.
He has contributed to the literature in peer reviewed journals as well as text book chapters. He has been co-author on abstracts presented at meetings around the world. At SUNY - Downstate, he has organized symposia on lasers in urology as well erectile dysfunction.
He is also active on the international scene especially in India where annually he operates and instructs local urologists in surgical techniques for difficult problems. He has also participated in the activities of the International Volunteers in Urology (IVU).
William Blank, MD was born and raised in Brooklyn. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. His surgical internship was completed at the University of Virginia and further surgical training was done at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. He went on to complete his urology training at Brookdale as well. After urology residency Dr. Blank completed his two year fellowship in male fertility and andrology at Cornell University Medical Center. The director of his fellowship training was alumnist Marc Goldstein, MD.
For the past 15 years Dr. Blank has specialized in male fertility and sexual dysfunction. His specialty includes diagnosing and treating male fertility problems, microsurgical vasectomy reversal and the performance of all known sperm retrieval techniques for assisted reproductive treatments. In addition he has been doing the "no-scalpel" vasectomy for over 10 years. Dr. Blank has special interest in diagnosing and treating sexual dysfunction. He stresses non-surgical approaches and has a special interest in the roles that hormones play in men and women.
Dr. Blank was appointed clinical assistant professor in the Department of Urology on February 1, 2001. He was most recently a member of the clinical faculty at SUNY Syracuse.
Marc W. Plawker, MD is clinical assistant professor of urology. He graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He then completed his pre-urology general surgery in residency training at SUNY Downstate. While a resident in our urology training program he won first place in the Ferdinand C. Valentine Residents Essay Contest on two occasions and also placed third in the Murry Friedman Essay Contest of American College of Surgeons. He has served the department in many capacities. He is the director of the monthly departmental journal club.
Andrew J. Combs, RPA-C joined the Department of Urology in July, 1990. Mr. Combs has responsibilities in the clinical care, academic, and educational areas. He was appointed as Clinical Instructor in 1994 and was promoted to his current position of Clinical Assistant Professor in 1996. He is also on the adjunct staff as a guest lecturer and clinical preceptor for the SUNY - Brooklyn Physician Assistant Program.
Mr. Combs is a graduate of the Long Island University – Brooklyn Hospital P.A. Program and was granted a BS degree in Health Science by Long Island University in June, 1979. He is a registered Physicians Assistant with the State of New York, as well as an AUAA Certified Urologic Physicians Assistant. He is also a NCCPA Certified Physicians Assistant recertified in both primary care and surgery. He is licensed by the New York State Department of Health as a certified EMT-D.
His academic responsibilities include training of the urology residents in the performance and interpretation of urodynamics studies and the mentoring of residents and medical students in the management of adult and pediatric patients with voiding dysfunction.
Mr. Combs is co-author on 23 papers published in peer reviewed journals and 2 text book chapters. He has also presented abstracts at over 40 regional, national and international meetings.
Clinically, he is supervisor of adult and pediatric urodynamic laboratories. His responsibilities include performance of all aspects of urodynamic testing, including complex multichannel voiding pressure studies, EMG, videourodynamics, renal pelvic pressure studies and biofeedback training. Management of adult and pediatric patients with voiding disorders as well as congenital and acquired urinary tract disease fall within his purview. He is the coordinator of urologic care for the spina bifida clinic. He overviews the performance of bladder ultrasound, transrectal ultrasound of the prostate and TRUS assisted prostate biopsy and assists in the operating room and cystoscopy suite.
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Keith Waterhouse, MD
Receiving the
F. C.
Valentine Medal of theNew York Academy of Medicine
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Richard J, Macchia, MD (right) and
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Keith Waterhouse, MD – Professor Emeritus and Founding Chairman: Keith Waterhouse was born in Derby, England in 1929, son of a North of England country doctor, and raised in Northumberland. He attended the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Royal Grammar School; Emmanuel College Cambridge and Oxford University Medical School, obtaining his medical qualification in 1953. He completed his training in urology at Kings County Hospital in 1959 under Dr. Frank Hamm. Within six years he became a Full Professor at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, the Head of Division of Urology and Urologist-in-Chief at Kings County Hospital. In 1969 urology was granted departmental status and at that time Dr. Waterhouse became Chairman of the Department of Urology.
Dr. Waterhouse served as Chairman of the Section on Urology of the New York Academy of Medicine, President of the New York Section of the American Urological Association, President of the Section on Urology of the New York Sate Medical Society and President of the Brooklyn-Long Island Urological Society. Nationally recognized posts he has held included President of the Section of Urology of the American Academy of Pediatrics and chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Urology of the American Medical Association. Internationally, he served as an active member of the International Society for Urology and one of the American Delegates in 1978.
He has been a visiting professor at many institutions, both in the United States and abroad, and an honorary member of the Italian, Panamanian and Australasion Urological Societies. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1982.
In 1967, at age thirty-eight, he was elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons and in 1978 to the prestigious Clinical Society of Genitourinary Surgeons.
Dr. Waterhousexs first article in 1959 entitled ÒRepair of the Injured UreterÓ, is a classic. Within three to four years of its publication, he became one of the worldxs foremost authorities on urologic problems in children and the individual most identified with popularizing the voiding cystourethrogram in the United States. He was one of the first to recognize the relationship between posterior urethral valves and changes at the bladder neck.
In 1971 Dr. Waterhouse introduced the transpubic surgical approach to the lower urinary tract, and subsequently the use of the transpubic approach for the repair of membranous urethral strictures. This procedure, one of the most innovative in urology, is frequently referred to as the ÒWaterhouse Repair.Ó Later he published the largest series on boys who had undergone repair of a traumatic urethral stricture.
After a serious illness in 1983, Dr. Waterhouse retired to Naples, Florida where he studies Floridian and Moesoamerican archeology. He is a past president of the Southwest Florida Archeological Society and a trustee of the Florida Archeology and Historical Conservancy.
In 1992 the Section on Urology of the New York Academy of Medicine awarded him the F.C. Valentine Medal for career achievement in Urology.
Dr.Peter T. Scardino, MD, Department of Urology, SUNY Downstate, was appointed Professor on March 1, 2000. He and his staff educate our residents when they are on rotation through Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for 4 months during the U-2 year.
Peter T. Scardino, MD is Chairman, Department of Urology, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 1999. Additionally, he is Professor of Urology, the Department of Urology in the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College at Cornell University. He served as Chief of the Urology Service in the Department of Surgery and the Murray F. Brennan Chair of Surgery as his initial appointment at MSKCC, which began in June of 1998.
Dr. Scardino is the former Russell and Mary Hugh Scott Professor and Chair of the Scott Department of Urology at the Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of the Urology Service at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the Baylor faculty beginning in 1979 and appointed Distinguished Service Professor in 1995. Under Dr. Scardino’s leadership, the Baylor urology department became one of the distinguished research and teaching centers in urology. Dr. Scardino, as principal investigator, received over $15 million in research grants from private foundations and from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), including the award of the first of three Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in prostate cancer with funding of $2.2 million per year. Additionally, the department houses the Matsunaga-Conte Prostate Cancer Research Center, a special designation created by Congress and awarded to Baylor by the Director of the NCI.
Dr. Scardino has gained international recognition for his work on urologic cancers, especially the early detection, natural history, and treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer. He has treated dignitaries from around the world, including two former presidents of Turkey. His major areas of expertise are the surgical treatment of prostate cancer, particularly radical prostatectomy, and the early detection of these cancers and assessment of their prognosis. However, he also lectures widely on the natural history of prostate cancer, including watchful waiting. His research focuses on finding new markers to predict the behavior and response to treatment of prostate cancer and investigating the role of gene therapy for prostate cancer. Results of Dr. Scardino’s research have been published in over 200 articles and book chapters, more than 100 of which have appeared in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Scardino served as an editor of the book Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology, the second edition of which will be published in 2000. He also wrote and presented "Straight Talk on Prostate Health", an educational video shown nationally on the Public Broadcasting System.
Dr. Scardino has received many honors for his teaching and research. In 1989, he was presented the American Urological Association’s Gold Cystoscope Award which is presented to the individual who has contributed the most to urology within ten years of residency. In 1996, Dr. Scardino received the Eugene Fuller Triennial Prostate Award of the American Urological Association and was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was presented with the American Foundation for Urologic Disease Presidential Award. Additionally, Dr. Scardino has been named as one of the best doctors in America by Good Housekeeping (1991), Town & Country (1995), and American Health (1996) magazines.
A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Medicine, which recognized him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in November 1999, Dr. Scardino completed residency training in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, followed by a laboratory and clinical fellowship in surgery and urologic oncology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. He then completed his urological residency at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine before going to Baylor in 1979.
Joel Sheinfeld, MD was appointed Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology, at SUNY Downstate Medical School in June, 2005. He is an internationally recognized urologic surgeon with special expertise in retroperitoneal surgery and the care of patients with testicular cancer. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and received a B.A from Cornell University and his M.D from the University of Florida in 1981. He completed his urology residency at the University of Rochester Medical School in 1986 and was a fellow in urologic oncology as a AUA Scholar at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) until 1989 when he joined the staff. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Urology at MSKCC and Professor of Urology, Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University. His clinical practice and research initiatives are focused on innovative treatment methods and refining surgical approaches for the management of testicular cancer.
In addition to numerous visiting professorships and editorials boards, Dr. Sheinfeld has been the recipient of grants and awards including the American Urologic Association First Prize in Clinical Research, the American Cancer Society Development Award and a Faculty Recognition Award. He has authored 190 papers, editorials, book chapters and abstracts in the medical literature. Dr. Sheinfeld is the 3rd recipient of the Orchid of Life Award from the Craig Tifford Foundation.
MSKCC Department of Urology Faculty
MSKCC Department of Urolog
Motria M. Mishko, Pharm.D was appointed as clinical instructor of urologic pharmacy in July, 2000. She earned her doctorate in pharmacy in May, 1995 and was recruited to SUNY Ð Downstate in July, 1999 as research pharmacist involved in many of the research projects at this medical school.
Her activities in the Department of Urology include clinical care, research and education. She routinely attends the department conference and lectures on uro-active drugs. She participates in the clinical care of patients at University Hospital Ð Brooklyn by reviewing their medications, ensuring that medications are being taken properly, and educating the patients regarding the risks and benefits of each drug. She then gives feedback to the physicians. Dr. Mishko is also a key player in the evolving complimentary medicine program of the department.
Karen Byer Eisenberg, RN MPS was appointed to the position of Clinical Research Associate for the Department of Urology March 2001. She earned her Diploma in Nursing in 1973, a B.S. Degree in 1976 and a Masters Degree in Professional Studies in 1977. She is certified by the National Institute of Health in the Protection of Human Subjects in Research.
Karen is an accomplished nurse who has over 20 years of research experience. She has expertise with pharmaceutical clinical trials and NCI studies from the planning stage through trial completion. She has experience in breast and prostate cancer, trauma and infection studies. Karen was the research coordinator for our NIH funded research into histochemically identified androgen receptors in prostate cancer patients and correlation of those findings with the results of hormonal therapy. She is also the Research Coordinator for the Trauma Surgery Department at Kings County Hospital. Karen has co-authored 30 research publications.
Her key role in the Department of Urology is the planning, implementation and recruitment of men into the National Cancer Institutexs SELECT Study and the education of our residents regarding this study. This important clinical trial will determine the potential of vitamin E and selenium supplements in preventing prostate cancer in healthy men.
Lynette Boissiere, BS, RN was appointed in 1985 to the position of Nursing Care Coordinator for the cystoscopy unit at KCHC in 1985. Her current activities involves managing the surgical and medical activities of our cystoscopy unit, develop plans, administration of medication to patients with advanced prostate cancer and assisting our physicians and residents in providing direct medical care to our patients. She is also the department's principal associate for participation in out reach programs and the Annual Hospital Health Fair. She also conducts annual workshop for the association of certified surgical technologists and other social/civic organizations. Throughout her career she has developed extensive hands-on and managerial nursing skills for both medical/surgical units and behavior modification units. She is a member of International Urology Services, Inc., the Society of Urological Nurses Association, the New York State Nurses Association and the Association of Operating Room Nurses.
ALUMNISTS WHO HAVE JOINED OUR CORE OR VOLUNTARY FACULTY AFTER GRADUATION
Nicholas Karanikolas, MD, 2004
Rosalia Misseri, MD, 2004
Michael Volpe, MD, 2001
Joel Sherman, MD, 1998
Marc Plawker, MD, 1997
Dhanan Etwaru, MD, 1995
Mark Horowitz, MD, 1992
Adley Raboy, MD, 1990
Mark Irwin, MD, 1988
Samanthi Raju, MD, 1988
Alex Latyshevsky, MD, 1987
Richard Reiser, MD, 1984
Aizid Hashmat, MD, 1980
Gobind B. Laungani, MD, 1977
Kenneth I. Glassberg, MD, 1975
Richard J. Macchia, MD, 1974
Peter Caponegro, MD, 1973
