Department of Urology

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• 00:03Yeah. We are always just
• 00:04truly family.
• 00:05I think we've built a
• 00:06culture where everyone looks out
• 00:08for each other. Our faculty
• 00:09members, our trainees, our staff
• 00:11are really special. They're committed
• 00:12to the cause of giving
• 00:14the best care for our
• 00:15patients and moving our field
• 00:16forward.
• 00:18My personal goal is to
• 00:20use the very science, the
• 00:22excellence that we strive for
• 00:23within our university, and leverage
• 00:25that relationship into actually some
• 00:27that's tangible for our patients,
• 00:28our trainees.
• 00:30That's actually the essence of
• 00:31being an academic medicine. The
• 00:33desire for excellence, the desire
• 00:35for being great at something.
• 00:37That's when great ideas come.
• 00:38That's when innovations occur. That's
• 00:40when the creativity
• 00:41kicks in.
• 00:44Fundamentally,
• 00:46urology is a clinical specialty.
• 00:48It is a surgical subspecialty.
• 00:50So at the end, we
• 00:52have to be able to
• 00:53deliver the goods to our
• 00:54patient. We have to be
• 00:55great surgeons. We have to
• 00:57provide them with great care.
• 00:59Once the critical volume of
• 01:01patients are within our doors,
• 01:03then we'd start interrogating these
• 01:05different issues we're facing every
• 01:06day, and you can identify
• 01:08questions.
• 01:09Once you identify them, then
• 01:11you go to the lab,
• 01:12you look at the database,
• 01:13you find ways to start
• 01:15answering that question. Once the
• 01:17answer is derived, then we
• 01:18have to test it. So
• 01:19it comes back to the
• 01:20clinic, back to our surgical
• 01:22arena, and try to answer
• 01:23this question.
• 01:26We are not gonna be
• 01:27just following the guidelines that's
• 01:29out there. There's guidelines for
• 01:30what it is. It's a
• 01:31standard of care. This is
• 01:32what how things are supposed
• 01:33to be done. We wanna
• 01:35be able to move that
• 01:36guideline forward.
• 01:38That's what I envision for
• 01:40department going forward, developing this
• 01:42culture, this desire to really
• 01:44be innovative, creative, testing out
• 01:46new ideas, not being afraid
• 01:48to be wrong.
• 01:49And the way we're gonna
• 01:50do that is by putting
• 01:51people who are equipped,
• 01:53with the appropriate tools and
• 01:54appropriate,
• 01:55training so that they can,
• 01:57help and give the best
• 01:58outcome for our patients with
• 01:59urologic issues.