Happy #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay! Today and every day, we honor the contributions and accomplishments of women MDs & DOs. Send love to the women physicians in your life by tagging them below. Happy 203rd birthday to #ElizabethBlackwell, the first women to receive a U.S. medical degree!

A true full-circle moment. From looking for Urology elective opportunities → to being invited to become part of the Sexual Medicine Elective at Michigan State University. Grateful for the mentors and the chance to pay it forward.

Looking forward to seeing you all during the weekend! You can still register to attend: www.lastlink.us/registration... Watch promo video here: www.vumedi.com/video/join-t...

🪄 Join the 9th Annual @UCI_Urology Advanced International Men’s Health Course 🌍 register here 👉 lastlink.us/registration/u… FREE 2-day program on ZOOM 🎥featuring 125 experts ➡️ 107 institutions! Started as Organizer➡️Planner➡️ Moderator ➡️Peer-reviewer🔛 to a Co-Director for this version!

Grateful to @UrologyTimes for featuring us! #Thanksgiving  #Movember Honored to receive 2025 @smsna_org Scholars in Sexuality Research Grant for 🌍 machine learning study! Sincere appreciation to Dr. Yafi & PUMP pioneers advancing individualized ♂️health care👇 www.urologytimes.com/view/muhamme...

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UCI Health celebrated a huge milestone this month, holding an open house for the new all-electric acute hospital, UCI Health –Irvine. FREE prostate screening was available by UCI Urology’s Van Cave. Was pleased to be part of this great initiative! #NoShaveMovember #Movember @ucirvine.bsky.social

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🚐 10th Annual Dr. Wadie Najm Men’s Health Day was inspiring last night! ✨UCI Urology team led the day’s launch, spotlighting Van CAVE: Mobilizing Men’s Health initiative👉bringing PSA screening on the road! ✨Grateful for my mentor’s shoutout! @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

First time presenting #WCET2025 was a great experience for me!

Happy to convey the mission & vision of SMSNA… @SMSNA_ORG Irvine RIG: advancing research, education, and collaboration in sexual medicine through faculty, resident, and student engagement! #SMSNA

📢First described by Pierre Masson (1923), "Masson’s tumor-IPEH" is now recognized as a non-neoplastic process occurring in various sites-even the penis! 👇Read here our newly published article on penile IPEH successful management and returning to normal sexual life! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new paper ! We discovered a high-innervation zone that can guide targeted therapy delivered through vaginal wall, potentially improving therapeutic outcomes for overactive bladder! #Neurourology & #Urodynamics www.researchgate.net/publication/... @wiley.com

Our Beyond the Abstract on outpatient vs inpatient RARP is now live on #UroToday Grateful to Prof. David Lee for his mentorship, and to all co-authors for the great teamwork! www.urotoday.com/recent-abstr...

Grateful to be part of this important work published in @urogoldjournal.bsky.social ! Robotic-Assisted vs. Open Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Propensity-Matched Studies www.goldjournal.net/article/S009... @elsfoundation.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Check out our recently published video in Video Journal of Sexual Medicine (VJSM): Step-by-step guide to performing a vulvar examination, with a focus on clinical precision and patient-centered care. www.vjsm.info/videos/all/h... #SexMed #SexualMedicine #ISSM #SMSNA

Truly honored to share that I have accepted my nomination for the full Membership at Sigma Xi, USA, The Scientific Research Honer Society, one of the oldest world scientific organizations, with over 200 Nobel Prize winners. #SigmaXi @sigmaxi.bsky.social

Truly honored to serve as an abstract reviewer for #AUA25 alongside giants in Urology and mentors who’ve shaped my journey! Grateful to be one of the youngest ever to do so! #AUA25

USC, UCLA Team Up for the World’s First-in-Human Bladder Transplant @uscnorriscancer.bsky.social #BladderCancer #BladderTransplant www.onclive.com/view/usc-ucl...

Helped an ambitious team of students at my alma mater to carry out an impactful Bladder Cancer awareness campaign through multifaceted approach! With the help of : worldbladdercancer.org @worldbladdercan.bsky.social #BladderCancerMonth25 #BladderCancer www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Are patients undergoing intralesional collagenase Clostridium histolyticum injection therapy for Peyronie’s disease compliant? 7-year analysis from a tertiary care men’s health center academic.oup.com/jsm/article/... Great seeing UCI ex-fellow Dr. Lumbiganon🇹🇭 presenting at Global Gateway #AUA25!

Enjoy the read of our recently published article on Erectile Dysfunction trends in the US! @siu-urology.bsky.social @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2563-6499/6/... www.mdpi.com/siuj/siuj-06...

I'm writing a retirement message for a mentor and remembered this wonderful quote from an article by Dr Suzanne Koven: "a true mentor is someone who has more imagination about you than you have about yourself"

Still THE best webinar on the topic! Shoutout to my member org ISSM (International Society of Sexual Medicine)! Please enjoy this world class cadre of andrology professionals! 😍 #Prostate #Urology #Testosterone #Prostatecancer #Medsky #Andropause #Humansexuality #Sexscience

We looked at Sexual Health in the era of #AI ! Very promising usage in this field! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🚨 In TAU, we examined public interest in stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction 📊. Despite limited evidence for this modality, SCT interest is on the rise—not driven by so much science. More rigorous research is needed! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Perito Urology is proud to announce the publication of a landmark study in the field of penile implant surgery. Co-authored by an international team of urologists, this study examines predictors of poor corporal integrity in inflatable penile prosthesis surgery. peritourology.com/2025/02/grou...

Super excited to have our recent paper published in issue ! Read it here: bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @wiley.com @dbarhammd.bsky.social @bjuijournal.bsky.social

My research, "Ethical perspective on telemedicine usage in sexual medicine: A friend or a foe?", has been published! Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/uro2... @wiley.com

Thank you for including me :)

Super excited to have this signed issue sent by the legend himself, Dr.STEVEN WILSON! Had the honor of working with him on 2 projects!

#WhyUrology 21 year old born with an anomaly that was misdiagnosed & no hope of sex life ➡️ properly diagnosed as adult➕💯managed ➕⌛️followup➕🧑‍🧑‍🧒family support= gaining her sexual life back! ➡️ www.researchgate.net/publication/... Thanks to my talented friend portraying it: @ysaralee.bsky.social

Enjoy reading our new article for this specific cohort of adult patients who were born with high urogenital sinus and what are the available management methods.

Don't forget to register for the FREE Virtual @UCI_Urology Men's Health Course coming up on January 25-26, 2025! Register here: www.lastlink.us/registration...

Read here our recent piece on how AI is used to create patient visit summary in ED clinics: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #urology #men’shealth #Artificial_Intelligence #medicine

Each standard deviation increase in staff turnover rate is associated with a 0.035-0.052% (nurses) and 0.014-0.019% (doctors) increase in risks of all cause and emergency admission *patient* mortality at 30 days. Correlation, not causation- perhaps mediated through whatever causes staff to leave. 🤔

Our perspectives on elevated periprostatic androgens in prostate cancer is out in this months Nature Reviews Urology! Why do some men have 10-fold higher testosterone in the dorsal vein compared w/ perioheral blood and what does it mean? Read and share your thoughts! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, nice pathology framework for characterizing treatment emergent neuroendocrine #ProstateCancer, a biologically diverse entity that everyone has a hard time describing, in CCR - thanks to Michael Haffner and @mishabeltran.bsky.social aacrjournals.org/clincancerre...

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/4i9ghPC

Great new opportunity for Medical Students interested in #pathology #genomics from @uscap.org Link: mailchi.mp/uscap/medstu... @kmirza.bsky.social @smlungpathguy.bsky.social @mopathguy.bsky.social

Some very good news for people with asthma and COPD. The first new treatment for acute attacks in over 50 years— a monoclonal antibody vs interleukin-5 receptor-α—with efficacy in a randomized trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Life expectancy gaps in the US 🇺🇸 have widened—now over 20 years between groups. Geography, race, & income remain key drivers. 🌍 Globally, disparities may be even worse. Inequities demand urgent action. #HealthDisparities #Longevity #EquityInHealth @oncoalert.bsky.social @ptarantinomd.bsky.social

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AI has a huge potential in #BladderCancer for diagnosis, prognostic and predictive assessment Some questions remain to be answered related to: ▶️ Heterogeneity of disease ▶️ Interreader variability of pathology assessment ▶️ Which ground truth to apply? #AI #MachineLearning @oncoalert.bsky.social

9/ Understanding these concepts helps explain the history of contrast agents. Here are examples of elements used before iodine became primary. ➤Gold (atomic number 79) ➤Mercury (80) ➤Lead (82) ➤Bismuth (83) ➤Thorium (90) What do all of these elements have in common? They are relatively heavy.

7/ Fat, muscle, and other soft tissues are primarily comprised of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. These smaller elements absorb few X-rays. When injected into a blood vessel, iodine will absorb more X-rays, appear more opaque, and provide "contrast" with surrounding soft tissues.

1/14 🤔 Why do we use iodine as an intravenous contrast agent? The answer requires a review of the composition of the human body and a brief tour of one of my favorites, the Periodic Table of Elements.

Cancer clinical trials in US cluster around major hospitals in big cities. Likely also true in NZ and other countries Data that comes out of trials applicable to population we recruit - to benefit everyone trials should include everyone #oncsky #medsky #lcsm #bcsm #equity doi.org/10.1200/OP.2...