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Professor of Urology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Pavlovich is Bernard Schwartz Professor of Urologic Oncology at Johns Hopkins and Program DIrector of the SUO Fellowship. He also runs the Active Surveillance Program in Prostate Cancer that was established in 1995 by Dr. H. Ballentine Carter.
His practice is primarily devoted to patients with prostate and kidney cancer, to whom he offers surveillance, ablative therapies, and robotic and other forms of surgery. A particular expertise of his is the robotic extraperitoneal (or retroperitoneal) approach to the prostate and kidney for patients with prostate or kidney cancer. This approach, which avoids entry into the abdominal cavity, is ideally suited for patients that have had prior abdominal or inguinal operations (e.g. hernia repairs, appendectomy, colectomy) or who have inflammatory conditions (e.g. Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis) that might make an abdominal robotic approach more hazardous.
Dr. Pavlovich’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, industry, and through institutional grants. He continues to work on early detection and risk stratification of prostate and kidney cancer using novel noninvasive urinary, blood, and imaging tests. He continues to treat cancer with an emphasis on minimizing morbidity and maximizing quality of life, while exposing his patients to the latest treatment options and techniques.
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