Sima P. Porten, MD, FACS, MPH

University of California, San Francisco

Sima Porten MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urology at UCSF. She received her undergraduate, doctoral and public health degrees from Northwestern University completing her education in June 2006. She was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society during medical school and also completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholars fellowship during that time. She then completed her urology residency training at the University of California, San Francisco where she received the Julius R. Krevans Award for Clinical Excellence. She then completed her Urologic Oncology Fellowship at The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is an active member serving in leadership roles for the American Urological Association (AUA), BCAN, and the Society of Urologic Oncology. Currently, she is part of the multidisciplinary urologic oncology team of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center where she continues to pursue her clinical and research interests in the diagnosis and treatment of genitourinary malignancies, focusing on bladder cancer, upper tract urothelial cancer, and kidney cancer.

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Presentation(s):

• Debate Bladder Cancer: Radical cystectomy vs Trimodal therapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer: the urologist’s perspective

  Friday, May 13, 2022
  9:00 AM – 9:20 AM

• Panel Discussion: Women in Urologic Oncology: Past, Present and Future

  Friday, May 13, 2022
  8:05 AM – 8:25 AM

• Introduction

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  2:00 PM – 2:05 PM

• Closing Remarks

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  4:50 PM – 5:00 PM