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University of Wisconsin
Ashanda R. Esdaille is an Atlanta native, a Phi Beta Kappa alumna of Spelman College, and received her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine. Following her medical degree, she completed her Urology residency at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a chief resident. Currently, she is completing her Urologic Oncology fellowship at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and has recently accepted an assistant professor position at Emory University. As a fellow, Dr. Esdaille has presented at several national conferences including GU ASCO, SUO, and the AUA in advanced prostate and kidney cancer. Overall, Dr. Esdaille has a strong interest in prostate cancer disparities – specifically the interplay between structural inequities and prostate tumor biology. In April 2021, Dr. Esdaille received the AUA/Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award with the aim of elucidating racial differences within prostate tumor microenvironments. In addition to translational research, she was recently awarded a 2-year Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Grant with Bristol-Myers-Squibb and National Medical Fellowships where she will aim to focus her efforts on increasing minority enrollment in prostate cancer clinical trials to help reduce the cancer disparity. In her free time, she is a medical student mentor and research committee member for the R. Frank Jones Black Urological Society and Urology Unbound; she also loves to cook, read, attend music festivals, exercise, and travel.
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Sunday, May 15, 2022
2:51 PM – 3:00 PM