Resident Essay Competition
The Residents Committee pre-selects six resident finalists for the Resident Essay Competition. The Residents Committee determines the final placement (first, second, third, etc.) based upon the scientific merit of the abstract as well as the residents’ podium presentations. All competition finalists have received a cash award, the amount based upon placement.
View the 2020 Resident Essay Finalist Presentations
2023
1st Place
Amber McMahon, MD
BATTLE OF THE BOTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHATGPT AND BINGS AI’S ABILITY TO RESPOND TO KIDNEY STONE TREATMENT-RELATED QUESTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH AUA GUIDELINES
2023
2nd Place
Arnold R. Palacios, MD
VALIDATING THE FUTURE GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE EQUATION (fGFR) IN POST-NEPHRECTOMY PATIENTS UTILIZING A LARGE, RACIALLY DIVERSE COHORT
2023
3rd Place
Daniel R. Hanna, MD
UTILIZATION OF BING AI CHATBOT FOR STONE MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS: A COMPARISON OF CHAT RESPONSE MODES AND THE AUA GUIDELINES
2022
1st Place
Lauren Anne Beeder, BS
LONG-TERM EXPERIENCE WITH BALLOON DILATION FOR SHORT BULBAR AND
MEMBRANOUS URETHRAL STRICTURES: ESTABLISHING A BASELINE IN THE ACTIVE
DRUG TREATMENT ERA
2022
2nd Place
Kyle Szymanski, MD, BS
REDUCING CATHETER UTILIZATION IN THE PERI-OPERATIVE PERIOD THROUGH
STANDARDIZATION AND NURSING EMPOWERMENT
2022
3rd Place
Xavier Glover, MD, BS
UROLOGIST-OBTAINED PERCUTANEOUS RENAL ACCESS DURING PCNL DECREASES
TOTAL RADIATION EXPOSURE
2022
4th Place
Dustin Luse
THE DIAGNOSTIC ROLE OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL TESTS FOR PREMATURE
EJACULATION: A PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER STUDY
2022
5th Place
Sagar Patel
APPLICATION OF THE TWIST SCORE TO PREDICT ORCHIECTOMY IN PEDIATRIC
TESTICULAR TORSION
2022
6th Place
Maria Veronica Rodriguez Padron, MD
KLRF1, A NOVEL MARKER OF CD56BRIGHT NK CELLS, PREDICTS IMPROVED
SURVIVAL FOR PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED BLADDER CANCER
2021
1st Place
Albert Geskin, MD
, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
COMPLICATIONS OF PERI-OPERATIVE URETERAL CATHETER PLACEMENT: EXPERIENCE AT A MAJOR CANCER CENTER
2021
2nd Place
Nadia Valeska Halstead, MD
, Children’s Hospital of Colorado
DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF NSAID PRIOR TO URETERAL STENT REMOVAL IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION
2021
3rd Place
Evan Mackenzie Gibbs, MD
, University of Oklahoma
EVALUATION OF POSTURE IN UROLOGIC SURGEONS: A PILOT STUDY
2021
4th Place
Nickolas David Scherzer, MD
, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
PRESENCE OF SARS-COV-2 RNA IN THE SEMEN – COHORT STUDY OF COVID-19 POSITIVE PATIENTS
2021
5th Place
Logan Cameron Hubbard, MD, MS
, Houston Methodist Hospital
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF BASELINE CORTICAL
NEURAL ACTIVITY IN MEN WITH BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA AND BLADDER OUTLET OBSTRUCTION
2021
6th Place
Samuel Antoine, MD
, University of Colorado
Identification of Genes Associated with the Risk of Requiring BPH
2020
Syed Alam, MD
, University of Kansas
, Kansas City, KS
EFFECT OF PRIOR RADIATION ON DIFFERENTIATION, STAGE, AND HISTOLOGY OF BLADDER CANCER: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SEER DATABASE
2020
Ali Antar, MD
, Baylor College of Medicine
POPULATION LEVEL TRENDS IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PEYRONIE'S DISEASE: OVERUTILIZATION OF PENILE PROSTHESES AND UNDERUTILIZATION OF PLAQUE EXCISION/INCISION WITH GRAFTING?
2020
Raj Bhanvadia, MD
, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
, Dallas, TX
OPEN VERSUS ROBOTIC-ASSISTED SIMPLE PROSTATECTOMY: A NATIONAL DATABASE COMPARISON OF COST, COMPLICATIONS, AND LENGTH OF STAY
2020
Raphael Carrera, MD
, Kansas University Medical Center
, Kansas City, KS
RISK TABLES PREDICT CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT PROSTATE CANCER ON MRI FUSION BIOPSY
2020
David Cochran, MD
, OUHSC Department of Urology
RISK TABLES PREDICT CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT PROSTATE CANCER ON MRI FUSION BIOPSY
2020
Maia VanDyke
, UT Southwestern Medical Center
ARTIFICIAL URINARY SPHINCTER CUFF EROSION “HEAT MAP” SHOWS SIMILAR ANATOMIC CHARACTERISTICS FOR TRANSCORPORAL AND STANDARD APPROACH
2019
1st Place
Mario Basulto-Martinez
POLYMORPHISMS IN THE SLC13A2(NADC1) AND SLC13A3(NADC3) GENES IN PATIENTS WITH KIDNEY STONES
2019
2nd Place
Daniel Igel, MD
DISPARITIES IN NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY BEFORE RADICAL CYSTECTOMY BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN POPULATIONS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE DELIVERY IN AN UNDERSERVED POPULATION
2019
3rd Place
Luke Wang, MD
IS THERE AN OPTIMAL PSA THRESHOLD FOR OBTAINING MRI-FUSION BIOPSY IN BIOPSY NAIVE PATIENTS?
2019
4th Place
Christopher Keith, MD
NO INCREASED ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN FROM OUTPATIENT INFLATABLE PENILE PROSTHESIS PROCEDURES: A HOSPITAL SYSTEM-WIDE ANALYSIS
2019
5th Place
Nathan Chertack, MD
OVERCOMING PATIENT FACTORS IN THE CARE OF UNDERSERVED TESTICULAR CANCER PATIENTS
2019
6th Place
Julianne Rathbun, MD
DISCHARGE DESTINATION AND READMISSION DIAGNOSES AFTER RADICAL CYSTECTOMY
2018
1st Place
Nabeel Shakir
, UT Southwestern
Refined Nonogram Incorporating Standing Cough Test Improves Prediction of Male Transobturator Sling Success
2018
2nd Place
Christopher Kosarek
, The University of Texas Medical Branch
Radical Cystectomy Provides Improved Survival Outcomes and Decreased Costs Compared with Trimodal Therapy for Patients Diagnosed with Localized Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
2018
3rd Place
Timothy Clinton
, UT Southwestern
Does Robotic Cystectomy Compromise Oncologic Outcomes
2018
4th Place
Joshua Engelsgjerd
, University of Nebraska
Downgrading of Prostate Cancer Gleason Score From MRI-US Fusion Biopsy to Radical Prostatectomy
2018
5th Place
Johar Syed
, St. Louis University
Lymph Node Density is a Better Predictor of Overall Survivial in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Results of the National Cancer Database Analysis
2018
6th Place
Allison May
, St. Louis University
National Trends in the Utilization of Androgen Deprivation Therapy as Primary Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer
2017
1st Place
Timothy Clinton
, UT Southwestern
IMPACT OF INSURANCE STATUS ON TESTICULAR CANCER SURVIVAL-IMPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
2017
2nd Place
Ali Tourchi
, University of Arkansas
THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR (TGF?) IN ERECTILE TISSUE ALTERATIONS FOLLOWING COMPLETE DETACHMENT OF URETHRA FROM CORPUS CAVERNOSA
2017
3rd Place
Nirmish Singla
, UT Southwestern
PREOPERATIVE PREDICTORS OF NON-ORGAN-CONFINED DISEASE IN UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA DIFFER BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES
2017
4th Place
Ahmad El-Arabi
, University of Kansas Medical Center
ANTICIPATED POST-OPERATIVE RADIOGRAPHIC CHANGES OF HEMOSTATIC AGENTS IN PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY
2017
5th Place
Tyler Haden
, University of Missouri
DOES THE TREATMENT APPROACH FOR SMALL RENAL MASSES AFFECT SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS THAT ARE 70 AND OLDER? A DATABASE ANALYSIS
2017
6th Place
Bristol Whiles
, University of Kansas Medical Center
OBSTRUCTING CALCULI & SEPSIS: DOES STONE SIZE MATTER?
2016
1st Place
Nirmish Singla
, UT Southwestern
Management of Urinary Incontinence Following Sub-Urethral Sling Removal
2016
2nd Place
Joshua Belle
, University of Nebraska
Increased use of Alvimopan is Associated with Decreased Postoperative Ileus in Radical Cystectomy Patients
2016
3rd Place
Jordan Brady
, University of New Mexico
Is Prostate cancer Higher Risk at Prostatecomy in the Era of the US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendation Against Prostate-Specific-Antigen Screening
2016
4th Place
Marshall David Shaw
, University of Oklahoma
Predictors of Metastasis at Time of Diagnosis and Overall Survival in Metastatic Testicular Cancer
2015
1st Place
Michael Shy, MD, PhD
, Baylor College of Medicine
Higher Neural Correlates at Initiation of Voiding in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis with Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction via Concurrent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) and Urodynamic Studies
2015
2nd Place
Matthew Meissner, MD
, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Inflammatory Markers Predict Adverse Pathological Features and Survival in Patients with Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma
2015
3rd Place
Cooper Benson, MD
, University of Texas — Houston
Selective Administration of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy to Patients with High-Risk Bladder Cancer: Impact on Pathologic Lymph Node Status
2015
4th Place
Stephen Overholser, MD
, University of Texas — San Antonio
Medicaid Acceptance in Urology: A National Patient Perspective Survey of Urologists
2015
5th Place
Matthew Kasprenski, MD
, San Antonio Military Medical Center
Epidemiology of Genitourinary Trauma in Service Members with Colorectal Injury Wounded During Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
2015
6th Place
Zachary Panfili, MD
, Kansas University Medical Center
Biopsy Patterns of Patients with HGPIN or ASAP in the Era of Active Surveillance
2014
1st Place
Kyle O. Rove, MD
, University of Colorado
CLEAN-INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION AS AN INITIAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGY PROVIDES FOR ADEQUATE PRESERVATION OF RENAL FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH PERSISTENT CLOACA
2014
2nd Place
Danny Huynh, MD
, University of Missouri – Columbia
SURVIVAL OUTCOME IN MEN RECEIVING RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY AFTER RADIATION FOR ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE
2014
3rd Place
Daniel Ballow, MD
, UTMB
DOES INSTRUCTION MODIFIED TO VARK QUESTIONNAIRE LEARNING STYLE AFFECT PSYCHOMOTOR TRAINING IN DA VINCI SI ROBOTIC TRAINEES?
2014
4th Place
David Flores, MD
, University of Kansas
FOLLOW-UP SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH URINARY DIVERSION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ORTHOTOPIC NEOBLADDERS AND ILEAL CONDUITS
2014
5th Place
Mark Jackson, MD
, UAMS
PREVALENCE OF PENILE CANCER IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
2014
6th Place
Sudhir Isharwal, MD
, UNMC
INCREASING FRAILTY AS MEASURED BY RISK ANALYSIS INDEX PREDICTS POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS AND MORTALITY IN UROLOGY PATIENTS
2013
1st Place
Christopher Powell, MD
, University of Kansas Medical Center
OUTCOMES OF ARTIFICIAL URINARY SPHINCTER PLACEMENT IN HIGH-RISK PATIENTS AS COMPARED TO AVERAGE RISK PATIENTS. A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW.
2013
2nd Place
Daniel Ramirez, MD
, UT Southwestern
LAPAROSCOPIC RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF SMALL RENAL TUMORS: LONG-TERM ONCOLOGIC OUTCOMES
2013
3rd Place
Aditya Bagrodia, MD
, UTUC, UT Southwestern
MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION OF THE PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ALTERED MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN PATHWAY BIOMARKERS IN UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA
2013
4th Place
James Tan, MD
, Baylor College of Medicine
HIGH ENERGY PENETRATING TRAUMA: CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES OF RENAL GUNSHOT WOUNDS
2013
5th Place
Daniel Olvera-Posada, MD
, INNSZ
EMPHYSEMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS: MULTICENTER CLINICAL AND THERAPEUTIC EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO
2013
6th Place
Brandon Manley, MD
, Washington University in St. Louis
SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING CYTOREDUCTIVE NEHPRECTOMY COMPARED TO THOSE TREATED WITH TARGETED THERAPY AFTER STRATIFICATION OF RISK AND COMORBIDITIES
2012
1st Place
Samit Soni, MD
, Baylor College of Medicine, Scott Department of Urology
NITRIC OXIDE-RELEASING POLYMERIC MICROSPHERES AS A THERAPY FOR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
2012
2nd Place
Katie Murray, DO
, University of Vanderbilt
AN ANALYSIS OF THROMBOEMBOLIC EVENTS AFTER RADICAL CYSTECTOMY AND CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS RECOMMENDATIONS
2012
3rd Place
Michael Belsante, MD
, UT Southwestern Medical Center
LYMPHOVASCULAR INVASION IS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF CANCER RECURRENCE IN ORGAN CONFINED, BUT NOT
IN LOCALLY ADVANCED CLEAR CELL RENAL CELL CARCINOMA
2012
4th Place
Christopher Powell, MD
, University of Kansas Medical Center, University of Utah
A COMPARISON OF TRANSCORPORAL VERSUS 3.5CM CUFF SIZE ARTIFICIAL URINARY SPHINCTER PLACEMENT
2012
5th Place
Aditya Bagrodia, MD
, UT Southwestern
PREDICTION OF PERIOPERATIVE OUTCOMES FOLLOWING MINIMALLY INVASIVE PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY: ROLE OF THE R.E.N.A.L NEPHROMETRY SCORE
2012
6th Place
Jessica Lubahn, MD
, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
A NOVEL RISK STRATIFICATION SYSTEM FOR CHEMOTHERAPY FAILURE INTESTICULAR GERM CELL TUMOR (T-GCT)
2011
1st Place
Kyle O. Rove
, University of Colorado, Division of Urology
ADMINISTRATION OF NOVEL SUPEROXIDE MIMETIC IN ANIMAL MODEL REDUCES WEIGHT LOSS AND ELIMINATES SKIN CHANGES FROM PELVIC RADIATION
2011
2nd Place
Bradley Wilson
, University of Kansas
INCIDENCE OF PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA IN RADICAL CYSTOPROSTATECTOMY SPECIMENS WITH A HISTORY OF RADIOTHERAPY
2011
3rd Place
Andrew Windsperger
, University of Kansas
CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE OF INTERLEUKIN-2 TREATMENT IN ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA
2011
4th Place
Humberto Villarreal
, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN PRIMARY NON-MUSCLE-INVASIVE UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA TREATED WITH INTRAVESICAL BCG
2011
5th Place
Necia Pope
, SAUSHEC
CHARACTERIZATION OF URETER, BLADDER, AND BOWEL TISSUE INJURY AFTER COMPRESSION WITH ROBOTIC INSTRUMENTS
2011
6th Place
Massimiliano Spaliviero
, OUHSC Department of Urology
SUCCESS OF A PRE-TRANSPLANT THROMBOPHILIA EVALUATION AND POST-TRANSPLANT TREATMENT REGIMEN IN PEDIATRIC KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
2010
1st Place
John Weedin, MD
, Baylor College of Medicine
The Significance of Cytoge-netic Abnormalities Y-Chromosome Microdealtions in Male Infertility
2010
2nd Place
Kelly Casperson, MD
, University of Denver
Prostate Cancer Gene 3 (PCA3) Variations in Relation to Prostate Cancer Status in Use of 5-Alpha-reductase Inhibitors in a Clinic Population
2010
3rd Place
Heidi Penn, MD
, University of Kansas
Preliminary Report on Micro-Vascular Invasion to Predict the Clinical Response of Tyro-sine Kinase Inhibitors in Meta-static Renal Cell Carcinoma
2010
4th Place
Katherine Rinard, MD
, Texas Tech
Pedf Enhances Docetaxel Cy-Totoxicity in Prostate Cancer Cells
2010
5th Place
Matthew Thom, MD
, Washington University
Submucosal Injection of Tri-Amcinolone for Hunner’s Ulcer Type Interstitial Cysstitis
2010
6th Place
John Davis, MD
, University of Oklahoma
What is the Cost of Low Grade Hydronephrosis?
2009
1st Place
Steven Hudak, MD
, San Antonio Uniformed Service, TX
2009
2nd Place
Dharam Kaushik, MBBS
, University of Nebraska
2009
3rd Place
Anthony Chavez, MD
, Scott & White Memorial Hospital
2009
4th Place
Eugene Lee, MD
, University of Kansas
2009
5th Place
Lance Wiebusch, MD
, Nebraska Medical Center
2009
6th Place
Matthew Thom, MD
, Washington University, St. Louis
2008
1st Place
Paul Womble, MD
, Kansas City, MO
2008
2nd Place
Lee A. Evans, MD
, San Antonio, TX
2008
3rd Place
Geoffrey Nuss, MD
, Dallas, TX
2008
4th Place
Eric Kline, MD
, Albuquerque, MN
2008
5th Place
Steven A. Koziol, MD
, Lackland AFB, TX
2008
6th Place
David D. Buethe, MD
, Edmond, OK
2007
1st Place
Joseph D. Dall’Era, MD
, University of Colorado
2007
2nd Place
Tim Richardson, MD
, University of Nebraska
2007
3rd Place
Jose A. Karam, MD
, UT Southwestern
2007
4th Place
Shahrokh F. Shariat, MD
, UT Southwestern
2007
5th Place
Amit Gupta, MD
, UT Southwestern
2007
6th Place
Penner T. Schraudenbach, MD
, UTHSCSA
2006
1st Place
Dr. Robert A. Bass
, University of Kansas
EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM FINASTERIDE
ON APOPTOTIC FACTORS AND ANDROGEN
RECEPTORS IN PROSTATE CANCER
CELLS
2006
2nd Place
Dr. Shahrokh Shariat
, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX
COOPERATIVE EFFECT OF CELL CYCLE REGULATORS EXPRESSION ON BLADDER CANCER DEVELOPMENT AND AGGRESSIVENESS
2006
3rd Place
Dr. Joseph Eric Dall’Era
, University of Colorado
VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) GENE THERAPY USING A NON-VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM IMPROVES ERECTILE FUNCTION IN A DIABETIC RAT MODEL
2006
4th Place
Dr. Brett Charles Hill
, University of Nebraska
THE USE OF FLOURESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION IN THE EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH INDETERMINATE CYTOLOGY
2006
5th Place
Dr. Jose Antio Karam
, UT Southwestern
DEPSIPEPTIDE IS AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA (TCC) IN A SUBCUTANEOUS AND AN ORTHOTOPIC XENOGRAFT MURINE MODELS