Pfizer Visiting Professorships Program

The AUA and Pfizer Inc are proud to sponsor the AUAER/Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Urology. This program facilitates in-depth, educationally focused visits by prominent medical experts to U.S. medical schools and/or teaching hospitals. These unrestricted educational grants are nationally competitive, and grant recipients are chosen by an independent Academic Advisory Board of recognized leaders in urology. Up to ten grants of $7,500 each will be awarded to selected organizations ("Host Institutions") to cover the Visiting Professors' honorarium, travel expenses, and other direct expenses related to the visit Accredited U.S. medical schools (allopathic or osteopathic) and/or affiliated teaching hospitals with divisions or departments of urology, or any other divisions/departments, adult or pediatric, engaged in urology are eligible to apply. For more information, visit http://www.promisingminds.com/GrantsProgAreas.aspx?ProgAreaID=18.

2008 Grant Recipients

Albany Medical Center
Host:		Barry Kogan, MD, FACS
Visiting Professor:		Timothy B. Boone, PhD, MD Baylor College of Medicine
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle)
Host:		Byron David Joyner
Visiting Professor:		Joao Pippi Salle, PhD, MD The Hospital for Sick Children
Louisiana State University
Host:		Dennis D. Venable, MD
Visiting Professor:		Brett Carver, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Loyola University Health System
Host:		Robert C. Flanigan, MD
Visiting Professor:		William D. Steers, MD University of Virginia Health System
Naval Medical Center, San Diego
Host:		Brian K. Auge, MD, FACS
Visiting Professor:		Joseph A. Smith Jr., MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Host:		Richard J. Macchia, MD
Visiting Professor:		Gerhard J. Fuchs, MD Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
University of California, Irvine Medical Center
Host:		Ralph V. Clayman, MD
Visiting Professor:		Peter N. Schlegel, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
University of Florida Health Science Center
Host:		Johannes Vieweg
Visiting Professor:		David F Penson, MPH, MD University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Host:		Eduardo T Fernandes, MD
Visiting Professor:		Mark S Litwin, MPH, MD University of California, Los Angeles
University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health
Host:		Stephen Y. Nakada, MD, FACS
Visiting Professor:		Larry I. Lipshultz, MD Baylor College of Medicine

Academic Advisory Board Members

Culley C. Carson III, MD
Rhodes Distinguished Professor
Chief of Urology
University of North Carolina

Richard Grady
Fellowship Program Director
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Associate Professor of Urology
The University of Washington School of Medicine

John P. Mulhall, MD
Associate Professor of Urology
Director, Sexual Medicine Programs
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ajay Nehra, MD
Professor of Urology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Glenn M. Preminger, MD
Professor, Urologic Surgery
Duke University Medical Center

Philippe E Zimmern, MD, FACS
Professor of Urology
Jane and John Justin Distinguished Chair in Urology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School