Happy spring, everyone. I’m excited to share that our reputation as dynamic experts in urology continues to grow! This month Timothy Tran, MD, was the Streem Visiting Professor at Albany Medical College where he gave talks on “Learning Curve for Aquablation,” as well as “Tips and Tricks for Ureteroscopy Research.” He also engaged with the residents in journal club and resident case presentations.

Additionally, Su Deng, PhD, was recently selected for a DoD Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Idea Development Award for her project on “Harnessing Metabolic Dependencies to Reverse Lineage Plasticity and Therapy Resistance in Lethal Prostate Cancer.” This work aims to identify and target transcriptional and metabolic vulnerabilities to overcome therapy resistance in advanced prostate cancer.

Turning to alumni impact, nominations are now being accepted through June 1 for the Robert M. Weiss Distinguished Alumni Award. Please use this online application to nominate an alumnus who embodies the spirit of our department across all three academic missions and has been in practice for at least 10 years.

Finally, mark your calendars for these upcoming events hosted by Yale Urology. Stay tuned for more information:

April 24: Inaugural Yale Urology On the Sound Summit: Prostate Care, to be held at Greenwich Hospital, featuring keynote speaker Daniel Lin, MD, interim chair of urology at the University of Washington. Please register at m.yale.edu/prostate-summit-2026

May 16: Yale Urology Alumni Reception at the AUA. Please RSVP to the Greenvelope invitation that was emailed.

June 25: Bernard Lytton Visiting Professor Day and Graduation, featuring Eila Skinner, MD, professor and chair of urology at Stanford University School of Medicine

Thank you,

Isaac Yi Kim

View a comprehensive snapshot of Yale Urology research work in this quarterly report based on October through December 2025 publication dates. Abstract summaries and full studies are available.

Learn how a pivotal experience at age 10 inspired Su Deng, PhD, to dedicate her career to science and specifically, to the study of treatment-resistant cancers. Discover what her Yale lab is working on and how she hopes to transform outcomes for patients with prostate cancer.

Katherine Rotker, MD (third from left), and Jaime Cavallo, MD, MPHS (third from right), joined other urologists, residents, and patient advocates for this year's three-day American Urological Association advocacy summit in Washington, D.C.

They met directly with lawmakers and their staff to discuss key issues important to urologists, such as Medicare reform, prior authorization, and workforce shortages.

Jessica Patrie, MPH; Jeffery Carbonella, MD, PGY-4; and Marianne Casilla-Lennon, MD, recently represented the department at a Yale residency fair in San Juan for Puerto Rico medical students and their faculty. The trio was able to attend and help bring awareness to the field, thanks in large part to a grant Casilla-Lennon received from the Society of Academic Urologists to do more travel recruitment and mentorship for students underrepresented in medicine.

In this latest video surrounding kidney stones, the second of four with Urology Times, Dinesh Singh, MD, shares why increasing physician awareness and comfort with low-dose imaging is key to reducing unnecessary radiation, all while maintaining diagnostic accuracy and patient safety.

Yale Urology had a strong volunteer presence during the recent 2026 Hartford HealthCare Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI) Session held in Hartford.

Several faculty oversaw simulations for area residents (including some of our own!) during the two-day event:

Dinesh Singh, MD, and Joshua Sterling, MD, MSc, - laparoscopic surgery skills station

Daniel Kellner, MD, and Jason Lee, MD (both pictured in center), - BPH simulators

Nicholas Stroumbakis, MD, - priapism simulator, kidney stone surgery station

Preston Sprenkle, MD, - open surgical skills station

Katherine Rotker, MD (pictured far right), - prosthetics/implants

Also pictured from L to R: resident alum Ankur Choksi, MD; Mursal Gardezi, MD, PGY-3; and Ellen Cahill, MD, PGY-3.

The New England American Urological Association sponsors the event.

Ashti Shah, MD, PGY-1, represented Yale Urology at the recent AI Symposium hosted by Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and Yale Biomedical Informatics and Computing Core at YSM.

Her poster presentation was on "Urology Copilot: Customizing Large Language Models to Clinical Algorithms for Safer, Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support."

(pictured: Marianne Casilla-Lennon, MD, the department's medical education director, and Shah)

What do vasectomies and the NCAA basketball tournaments have to do with each other? Learn more in these Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) videos, featuring Stanton Honig, MD, finger spinning! YNHHS set up an NBC CT-produced health segment on vasectomy, as well. (you may notice Dr. Kim prominently on their website!)

Katherine Rotker, MD, was also featured in this health system article on Vasectomy Risks, Reversals, and Common Myths.

And the Yale Medicine vasectomy fact sheet was recently updated. Go team!