Western University
London, ON, CAN
Dr. Stephen Pautler attended the University of Waterloo and completed a Honours, Co-operative Chemistry degree. Dr. Pautler graduated from the University of Calgary medical school in 1995 and subsequently completed the urology residency at The University of Western Ontario (Western). He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2000. Dr. Pautler spent two years at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland performing both clinical and basic science research in minimally invasive interventions for urologic cancers, before joining the staff at St. Joseph's Hospital as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Surgery at Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western in July 2002. Dr. Pautler was cross-appointed to the Department of Oncology in 2005 and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Western. He has co-authored more than 125 peer-reviewed articles, several chapters and has presented at numerous international urology meetings. His current interests include surgical robotics with the application of minimally-invasive surgical techniques and image-guided ablative procedures for urologic cancers. He is a Canadian expert in hereditary kidney cancer syndromes and is a member of the Kidney Cancer Research Network of Canada. Dr. Pautler has been one of the pioneers in surgical robotics in Canada and has a large experience with prostate and kidney surgery performed robotically. Dr. Pautler is the Southwest Regional Surgical Oncology Lead for Cancer Care Ontario/Ontario Health, the Access to Care lead for Urology for Ontario, as well as the Co-Director of the Endourology fellowship program and he participates in the Society of Urologic Oncology fellowship program at Western.
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