Brooklyn Urology

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
2005-present
Urologist. Midtown Urological Associates. New York, New York.
1987-1991
Staff Urologist, Urological City Center, Kiev, Ukraine.
1982-1986
Registered Nurse, Surgery/Urology Department Hospital #14, Kiev, Ukraine.

EDUCATION:
2004-2005
Laparoscopic Urology and Endourology fellowship. University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2000-2004
Resident and Chief Resident in Urology, The Brookdale University Hospital
and Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
1999-2000
Radiation Oncology Residency, USC-LAC, Los Angeles, California.
1997-1999
General Surgery Residency, Harbor “UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California.
1996-1997
Research Associate, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California.
1990-1991
General Urology, Fellowship, Kiev State Institute for Advanced Medical Education
and Training, Kiev, Ukraine.
1985-1987
General Surgery Residency, Hospital #14, Kiev, Ukraine.
1980-1986
Kiev Medical School, Kiev, Ukraine. Doctor of Medicine.

HONORS/AWARDS:
2007
Best of Session Winners: Ribbon Award. Western Section, American Urological
Association.

2004
Pfizer, Scholars in Urology Award.

2004
AUA/PRAECIS Murphy Scholar

2001
Outstanding Resident of the Year Award Brookdale, University Hospital and
Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

1984
N. Pirogov Scholarship; Bogomelez University Award Kiev Medical School,
Kiev, Ukraine.

1980
DOSAAF Society Award; Kiev Scholar Award Kiev, Ukraine.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
1998 Effect of Bioflavonois Quercetin and Curcumin on Ischemic renal
Injury, Transplantation, vol 66, 147-152, No. 2, July 27, 1998.

POSTERS AND PODIUM SESSIONS:

2007
Early Use of the Vacuum Constriction Device Following Radical
Retropubic Prostatectomy: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Western
Section of American Urological Association

2004
Obturator Nerve Injury: Should it be repaired? Ferdinand C.Valentine
Urology Residents Essay Meeting, New York Section of the American
Urological Association, New York, New York.

2003
Renal Responses to Atrial Natriuretic Peptide are Preserved in Bilateral
Ureteral Obstruction and Augmented by Neutral Endopeptidase Inhibition.
American Urological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

2003
Adenocarcinoma of the Urinary Bladder. Ferdinand C.Valentine Urology
Residents Essay Meeting, New York Section of the American Urological
Association, New York, New York.

2002
Renal Responses to Atrial Natriuretic Peptide are Preserved in Bilateral
Ureteral   Obstruction and Augmented by Neutral Endopeptidase Inhibition.
American College of Surgeons, Murray Friedman Essay Contest, Brooklyn,
New York.

2002
Renal Responses to Atrial Natriuretic Peptide are Preserved in Bilateral Ureteral
Obstruction and Augmented by Neutral Endopeptidase Inhibition. Ferdinand C.
Valentine Urology Residents Essay Meeting, New York Section of the American
Urological Association, New York, New York.

2001
Lymphoma of the Urinary Bladder. Ferdinand C. Valentine Urology Residents
Essay Meeting, New York Section of the American Urological Association, New
York, New York.

2000
Presence of NMDA receptors in the male lower urogenital tract. American
Urological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

1998
NMDA receptor proteins are present in the urogenital tract and participate
in the local control of its smooth muscle tone. Abstract, American Society of
Andrology, 23d Annual Meeting, March 1998.

1998
NMDA receptor proteins are present in the urogenital tract and participate
in the local control of its smooth muscle tone. Abstract, American Federation
for Medical Research (Western Meeting), February 1998.

1997
Effect of Quercetin on renal function and chemokine gene expression in
ischemia- reperfusion injury. American Urological Association, New Orleans,
Louisiana.Â

INTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
2000-2003
Participant: Brookdale University Hospital Department of Urology residency
interviews/Q&A, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn,
New York.

2000-2003
Medical student education. Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York.

2000-2003
Clinical Care Pathway for patients with cancer of the prostate, Brookdale University
Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.

1996-1999
Russian, Ukrainian interpreter for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

1987-1988
Doctors Ought to Care Program (Social Issue Seminars for High School).
Knowledge Co-op (Tutoring 1st and 2nd year medical student).

1986-1987
Volunteer Examiners for Chernobyl Nuclear Tragedy Victims, Kiev, Ukraine.

1983-1986
Urology Student Society President. General Surgery Student Society Member.
University Basketball Team, Championship 1983.

1980-1983
Gross Anatomy Student Society Member.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2002-2003
Renal Responses to Atrial Natriuretic Peptide are Preserved in Bilateral Ureteral
Obstruction and Augmented by Neutral Endopeptidase Inhibition. Brookdale
University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.

1996-2000
Role of NMDA receptors in conditions affecting the tone of the lower urogenital
tract (bladder and prostate) in the rat models and surgical specimens of the human
tissue. Department of Urology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

1996-1997
Gene regulation in renal ischemia.  Department of Urology, Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center

1985-1991
Use of thermography in the diagnoses of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases
of the kidney and scrotum, varicocele, kidney and testicular carcinomas.  Use of low
temperature in the treatment of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases of the prostate.
Division of Urology, Kiev Medical School, Kiev, Ukraine.