Urological Society for American Veterans – President’s Report 2017

November 24, 2017

by Jeff Jones, President Urological Society for American Veterans – an affiliate of the SGSU Thanks to all who attended, and contributed to, the May 2017 meeting of the USAV in Boston, during the AUA. We had an excellent scientific program put together by the program and abstract committee of Robert Grubb, Justin Parker, Jennifer…

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Outlook Newsletter – March 2017

April 13, 2017

Click link below to view the 2017 meeting highlights ! https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://govurology.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SGSU-newsletter-2017.pdf  

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Congratulations to Kimbrough 2017 Award Winners

March 18, 2017

HG Stevenson Award for outstanding support and dedicated service to the SGSU and urology residency programs. Presented to: George Kaplan, MD Honorary Lifetime Membership Award for lifetime dedication and service to the SGSU. Presented to: Mitchell Edson, MD Prince Beach Award for best paper (#65) presented by a society member staff physician as judged by…

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Kimbrough Meeting “take aways” – 2017 San Diego

March 13, 2017

Dr. Tim Brand Take Home Points Enzalutamide is easy to prescribe but causes fatigue. – Ray Lance, MD Corynebacteria are bad for prosthetics.  -Jesse N. Mills, MD Primary care should refer everyone with psa >1.5 ng/dl to urology for risk assessment (using sophisticated biomarkers) for clinically significant prostate cancer.  -E. David Crawford, MD “If you…

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SGSU and USAV Affiliation Approved in San Diego

January 20, 2017

SOCIETY OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE UROLOGISTS (SGSU) AND UROLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN VETERANS (USAV) FORMALLY AGREE TO JOIN TOGETHER At its Annual Business Meeting in San Diego on January 14, 2017, the SGSU membership voted to approve an affiliation arrangement with the newly established USAV – which represents VA urologists nationwide. SGSU President, Dr.  Hal Frazier…

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What the military can teach physician leaders

August 2, 2016

Editor’s corner: What the military can teach physician leaders by Joanne Finnegan |Fierce Healthcare Jul 27, 2016 1:38pm Like me, the national political conventions taking place these last two weeks might have you thinking more about leadership and the kind of leader the country so desperately needs right now. But it’s not just the country…

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IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Is Going to Help 10,000 Veterans

June 30, 2016

FORTUNE by Laura Lorenzetti June 29, 2016, 6:15 AM EDT A a big leap forward for cancer treatment. IBM is teaming up with the federal government to bring Watson technology into America’s largest hospital and healthcare network. The initiative is one of the first public-private partnerships setup as part of Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer…

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New VA Physicians Wanted

June 28, 2016

Wanted: 1,800 New VA Physicians HealthLeaders Media News, June 28, 2016 Making the Department of Veterans Affairs health system an attractive place to work is a key priority in the wake of negative reports about wait times and reimbursements to physicians in the private sector. click here to read full article  

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Congratulations to our SGSU Members who won AUA 2016 Awards!

June 21, 2016

Allen F. Morey, MD – Distinguished Contribution Awardfor outstanding contributions to the science and education of civilian and military urologists in the performance of urological reconstructive surgery as well as 18 years of philanthropic missions to Honduras.   Col. Paul A. Friedrichs, MD – Presidential Citation for outstanding leadership in the United States Air Force Medical…

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