Western University
London, ON, CAN
Dr. Alp Sener completed his Urology residency at the Western University, London, Ontario, Canada in 2007 and then spent two years at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore as the American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Novartis Fellow in Transplantation. While in Maryland, he was trained in kidney and pancreas transplantation and completed a research fellowship in transplant immunology. Dr. Sener joined the Division of Urology at Western University in 2009 as a Clinician Scientist. He has been the recipient of local, national and international research contribution awards including the Western University Dean’s Award of Excellence, the Canadian Society of Transplantation Research Excellence Award and the Vanguard Award from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and currently serves as the Chairman of Urology at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Chief of Urology at London Health Sciences Center and St. Joseph’s Health Care London and is the Director of the Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Fellowship program at Western University. In addition to a general urology and kidney/pancreas transplant directed clinical practice, Dr. Sener maintains an active basic sciences and translational research laboratory focusing on gasotransmitter biology and therapeutics. His laboratory pioneered the use of hydrogen sulphide in mitigating ischemia reperfusion injury of transplantation, in modulating neovascularization and metastasis of renal cell carcinoma cell lines and in mitigating tissue fibrosis following chronic urinary obstruction. He is the Founder of the Canadian Association of Chairs of Surgical Research and serves active roles in both Urology (American Urological Association Research Advocacy Committee, AUA Northeastern Section Board of Directors; Canadian Urological Association Research and Education Committees and as President of the Urological Society for Transplantation and Renal Surgery) and Transplant organizations (Canadian Society of Transplantation Research Committee and American Society of Transplant Surgeons Vanguard Committee).
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