Invited Speakers

Brian F. Chapin

Prostate cancer
at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Brian Chapin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.  He provides complete surgical care for men and women diagnosed with urologic malignancies. He performs open surgery and minimally invasive/robotic surgery, for patients with prostate, kidney, bladder and testis cancers.  His major clinical focus is on the treatment of high risk- localized, locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancers. He has active clinical research protocols developing the integration of surgical, radiation and medical therapies in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer.  Dr. Chapin is involved with the basic science/translational research program at M.D Anderson, which is attempting to identify predictive signatures for identifying which patients with advanced prostate cancer will benefit most from specific therapies. Using a comprehensive multimodality approach to this disease, Dr. Chapin’s goal is to ease suffering and prolong survival in men with advanced prostate cancer.      

2018 – present         Associate Professor, Department of Urology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

2016 – present         Fellowship Program Director, Department of Urology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

2016 – present         Co-Director of Clinical Research Programs, Department of Urology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX

Amy Krambeck

BPH
Northwestern Medical Center, Chicago

Dr. Amy Krambeck is a Professor of Urology at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.    Her Urology residency was completed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 2008.  Subsequently, from 2008 to 2009 she participated in an Endourology fellowship at the Methodist Institute for Kidney Stone Research in Indianapolis, Indiana.  From 2009 to 2016 she worked as an Endourologist in the Mayo Clinic Department of Urology, then joined the staff at Indiana University in July of 2016 as the Endourology Division head.  In January of 2021, Dr. Krambeck join the staff at Northwestern Medical to develop their benign diseases program.  Dr. Krambeck specializes in the surgical and medical treatment of stone disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia.  Her research interests include the pathogenesis of stone disease, the treatment of urolithiasis during pregnancy and laser modifications for holmium laser enucleation of the prostate.

Ranjith Ramasamy

Reproductive Urology
University of Miami

Ranjith Ramasamy is the Director of Reproductive Urology, Director of Andrology Fellowship, as well as an Associate Professor at the University of Miami in Florida. As a Urologist and Microsurgeon, Dr. Ramasamy specializes in the treatment of disorders of male infertility and sexual dysfunction. He is an expert in vasectomy reversal and penile prosthesis. Dr. Ramasamy completed his Urology residency training at Weil Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He then completed a National Institutes of Health sponsored Andrology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. To date, he has published over 250 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. He is the lead investigator on several clinical trials and translational research projects. He is the recipient of the 2019 Clinician Scientist Development Grant from the American Cancer Society and the 2020 Ira and Ester Rosenwaks Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.