Dr. Michael Leapman presented “How Should We Monitor Patients During Surveillance?” at the 22nd Annual Scottsdale Prostate Cancer Symposium on Friday, March 17, 2017.
How to cite: Leapman, Michael “How Should We Monitor Patients During Surveillance?” March 17, 2017. Accessed Nov 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/monitor-patients-surveillance
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Leapman is an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. He was drawn to the field of urology by the opportunity to care for patients with urologic cancers. Dr. Leapman graduated from Cornell University, where he majored in Neurobiology and Behavior, and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He completed his General Surgery and Urology training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Subsequently, he completed a two-year Urologic Oncology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), accredited by the Society of Urologic Oncology. He was recruited to join the faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine Smilow Cancer Center in 2016. He specializes in urologic oncology, and has a joint appointment at the West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His clinical interests include low-risk prostate cancer, active surveillance, nerve-sparing robotic prostatectomy, focal therapy, high-risk disease, and pelvic lymph node dissection.