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2020 Benefactors

The USTRS wishes to acknowledge and thank the following individuals for their generous contributions to the Dr. John Barry Traveling Fellowship Award in Transplantation 2020 Benefactors (as of Sept. 30, 2020) John Barry, MD Alp Sener, MD Evan Vapnek, MD Avery Seifert, MD Cynthia A. Fairfax, MD Jeff Veale, MD Mark Wakefield, MD Jason Hedges,…

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View USTRS 2020 Abstracts

Published Abstracts in Canadian Urological Journal (CUAJ) May 2020 Volume 14, Issue 5 View the Urologic Society for Transplantation and Renal Surgery 2020 Annual Meeting Abstracts

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2020 Novick Award Winner: Spencer Mossack

Congratulations! Presentation was slated for the USTRS 2020 Program in Washington, DC Spencer Mossack, M.D. Candidate Class of 2021 – Stony Brook School of Medicine Paper Title: Imaging characteristics and screening limitations for malignancy in Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.  

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2019 Novick Award Winner: Kristen McAlpine, MD

Congratulations! Presentation at the USTRS 2019 Program in Chicago Development of a patient decision aid for the management of small renal masses Dr. John Barry presents Kristen McAlpine, MD (Ottawa, Ontario) with a certificate (plaque to be sent later)

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Dr. Barry’s 2019 meeting “take away notes”

Peritoneal Dialysis. The visual obturator technique and the swan-neck catheter are good ideas. Prostate Cancer. If a kidney transplant candidate or recipient would otherwise qualify for active surveillance, it’s safe. Re-transplantation of previously transplanted kidneys. It’s reasonable. Robotic vs open renal transplantation. No comment. Is cytoreductive nephrectomy dead? No. One can consider systemic therapy followed…

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USTRS 2019 Abstracts now published in the CUAJ

Dear Colleagues, The USTRS is very proud to announce that for the first time, specific USTRS abstracts have been accepted by the CUAJ and are now being published. Many thanks to Dr. John Barry for his financial support in making this happen, to the officers who worked diligently on the details and to the authors…

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