.jpg)
.jpg)
Professor And Chair
Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Leonard Gomella is the Bernard Godwin Professor of Prostate Cancer and Chair of Urology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Originally from New York, Dr. Gomella completed medical school, surgery and urology at the University of Kentucky. After a Urologic Oncology Fellowship in the Surgery Branch of the NCI in Bethesda, he joined Jefferson in 1988 and the Chair in 2002. He is Senior Director for Clinical Affairs for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer and is Urology Service Line Director for Jefferson Health.
Dr. Gomella's his team was first to use molecular techniques (RT-PCR) to detect circulating prostate cancer “circulating tumor cells”) .He led the Urology effort in the 2017 and 2019 Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Consensus on genetic testing for prostate cancer.
He has given over 600 presentations and written over 500 papers. In 2010 became Editor of the “Canadian Journal of Urology”. Dr. Gomella has authored and edited 63 editions of 17 different books for students, residents, and physicians and edits the “5 Minute Urology Consult”. "Recovering from Prostate Cancer”, the first public book on prostate cancer was authored in 1993. In medicine, he is known for the "Clinician's Pocket Reference" (“the Scut Monkey Book”) with the 12th edition renamed “Gomella and Haist Clinician’s Pocket Reference” .
“Best Doctors in America”, “Top Doctors for Cancer”, Philadelphia Magazine’s “Top Doctors” recognize him for prostate cancer including a 2015 recognition in Newsweek. Men’s Health Magazine has isted Dr. Gomella as one of the 20 top urologists in the US. Awards received are from the ACS, the NCI and a "Distinguished Alumnus Award” from UK. He has been President of Mid-Atlantic AUA and the Society of Urologic Oncology and elected to the AAGUS and CSGUS. In 2015 he received a “Distinguished Contribution Award” from the AUA and the “Jefferson Achievement Award in Medicine”.
Disclosure information not submitted.
Friday, May 13, 2022
8:25 AM – 8:45 AM