Jaime Landman, MD:
Dr. Landman is Chairman of the Department of Urology and Professor of Urology and Radiology at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is also the founder and director of the UC Irvine Ablative Oncology Center where he performs many of his minimally invasive kidney cancer procedures. Dr. Landman was previously a full-time faculty member of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Director of the Columbia University Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology Fellowship. Dr. Landman has extensive clinical expertise in laparoscopic renal and prostate surgery and endoscopic management of urinary tract pathology. His clinical interests include all aspects of minimally invasive urologic oncology with special emphasis on kidney cancer and prostate cancer. He has performed over 3000 advanced minimally invasive kidney procedures. He has pioneered technology and techniques for minimally invasive management of renal malignancies and has developed novel techniques that are used globally for laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. Dr. Landman is an internationally recognized expert and has been a visiting professor, lecturer, and given live surgical demonstrations around the world.
Ralph Clayman, MD:
Dr. Clayman is world renowned for his expertise in minimally invasive surgery for kidney stone disease, kidney cancer, and strictures of the ureter, and is listed among the Best Doctors in America for urology. Following his general surgery and urology training at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Clayman spent two years at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas pursuing his interests in renal cancer research, kidney stone disease, and minimally invasive urology. Dr. Clayman spent 17 years at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, rising to become a professor of urology and radiology, director of the Midwest Stone Institute, and co-director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery. In 1990, Dr. Clayman and his associates performed the world’s first laparoscopic removal of a tumor on the kidney. He established the nation’s first fellowship program in minimally invasive urology, and trainees of his program now occupy academic positions at university throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel. In 2002, Dr. Clayman joined UC Irvine’s School of Medicine as the founding chair of the Department of Urology and served as Dean of the School of Medicine from 2009 – 2014. He is the author of several textbooks on laparoscopic and percutaneous urologic surgery, and he has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He is co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Endourology and has 14 minimally invasive surgical instrumentation patents to his name. He has received numerous national and international awards in urology.
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