Welcome from the Chair:
The UCSF Department of Urology offers the best urologic care, the most productive and innovative research programs, and an outstanding educational program that trains the future leaders in the field. We are one of the most productive urology departments in the nation, concentrating our efforts on a wide variety of research areas.
The last six years have been very important ones for the Department of Urology. The department has maintained and built on its commitments to research and training. Our research programs have grown and diversified. The continued commitment to clinical and laboratory research is reflected in our outstanding record of publications, grant support, and presentations at regional, national and international meetings.
Our residency program is one of the best in the country, attracting the finest applicants available. The department enjoys the strong support of the administration, medical school leadership and patient advocates who have made resources available to support our academic activities. Members of the department have helped develop multidisciplinary research and patient care programs in key areas.
We take seriously our mission to educate, to care and to discover. I am grateful to the faculty and staff, the housestaff, the leadership of UCSF and our patient advocates, who have allowed us to achieve and maintain our status as a program of excellence.
Peter Carroll, MD
Professor and Chair of Urology
Ken and Donna Derr-Chevron Distinguished Professor
The mission of the UCSF Department of Urology is:
To provide compassionate, cost-effective, skillful and innovative care to all patients
To ask relevant questions and answer them with scientific knowledge obtained through laboratory and clinical research.
To educate students, residents and fellows in the art and science of urology and thereby to train the future leaders in our field
To recognize that the Department of Urology is a group of individuals working together, responsibly and ethically, to achieve its goals