Professor of Urology and Radiology
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Ithaar Derweesh received his MD at the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine in 1995. He completed Urology Residency at Yale under the guidance of Dr. Robert Weiss, and then went on to become an American Foundation of Urological Disease Scholar in Urologic Cancer and Fellowship in Renal Transplantation and Renovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic under the mentorship of the late Dr. Andrew Novick. In 2005, he joined the Department of Urology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis as Assistant Professor and then Residency Program Director. In 2008, was recruited to the Division of Urology at the University of California San Diego by Dr. Christopher Kane, where he is now Professor of Urology and Radiology and serves as Program Director of the Urologic Oncology Fellowship.
Dr. Derweesh has a practice focusing on kidney cancer. He has authored more than 250 publications and currently serves on the Editorial Boards JU Open Plus and Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica and has previously served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urology and BJU International. He participated in the AUA Leadership Program (2014-2015) and the AUA-EAU Exchange Program (2016) and served on the Nominating Committee for the Society of Urologic Oncology (2017-2019). He currently serves on the NCCN Guideline Panels for Renal Cell Carcinoma and has served on the AUA Kidney Cancer Guideline Panels (Clinical T1 Renal Mass, Follow-up of Localized Renal Neoplasm, and Renal Mass and Localized Renal Cancer) and NCCN Guideline Panel for Testicular Cancer.
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Friday, April 28, 2023
1:25 PM – 1:55 PM CST
Saturday, April 29, 2023
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
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Monday, May 1, 2023
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