Professor and Chair
University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA)
Rob Svatek is Professor and Chair at the Department of Urology, UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Svatek’s clinical practice is devoted to the care of patients suffering from bladder cancer. The urology department at UT Health San Antonio serves a large referral base that includes the South and Southwest borders of Texas and he is proud to lead a group of exceptional urologic clinicians and scientists. Dr. Svatek is passionate about clinical trial research for bladder cancer and he runs an NIH-funded cancer immunology laboratory, which focuses on the role of innate effector cells in mediating cancer immune surveillance and cancer therapy. Dr. Svatek’s research team conducts clinical trials that interface with laboratory and bladder cancer models, creating synergy between these parallel research approaches. Dr. Svatek is also actively involved in the development and conduct of trials through the Southwest Oncology Cooperative Group (SWOG), one of several cooperative groups within the National Cancer Institute’s publicly funded National Clinical Trials Network.
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Friday, April 28, 2023
4:16 PM – 4:28 PM CST
Saturday, April 29, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST