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    Seth Lerner

    Professor of Urology
    Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    Seth P. Lerner, MD, FACS

    Seth P. Lerner, MD, is Professor of Urology and holds the Beth and Dave Swalm Chair in Urologic Oncology and is Vice-chair for Faculty Affairs in the Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine. He is Director of Urologic Oncology and the Multidisciplinary Bladder Cancer Program and co-chairs the GU Disease Working Group in the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center. His clinical practice, education, and research activities are devoted to urologic oncology and particularly lower and upper tract urothelial cancer. Dr. Lerner is author of over 270 peer-reviewed articles the founding co-editor-in-chief of the Bladder Cancer journal. His research interests include use of selective estrogen receptor modulators for treatment of bladder cancer, gene therapy, integrated proteogenomic analysis of bladder and upper urinary tract cancers, and outcomes of radical cystectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy. He has 33 years of experience as a clinical investigator for both NCI and industry funded clinical trials. He is the PI of the SWOG NCI Phase III trial comparing extended vs. standard pelvic lymphadenectomy at time of radical cystectomy recently published in New England Journal of Medicine. He chaired the SWOG Local Bladder Cancer committee for 14 years and is the current chair of the SWOG GU committee. He former co-chair of the NCI Bladder Cancer Task Force and co-chair of the NCI CTEP Genitourinary Steering Committee. He co-chaired the Analysis Working Group of The Cancer Genome Atlas Project for muscle invasive bladder cancer. He is very active in the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) as a former member of the Board of Directors, past chair of the Bladder Cancer Think Tank. Dr. Lerner is an active member of the prestigious American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons and is listed routinely among “America’s Top Doctors” and “Best Doctors in America”.




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