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Yair Lotan, M.D.

Yair Lotan, M.D.

Professor

Endowed Title
Jane and John Justin Distinguished Chair in Urology, in Honor of Claus G. Roehrborn, M.D.
School
Medical School
Department
Urology

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  • Biography

    EDUCATION: University of Texas at Austin, B. A. in Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas: M. D., Urology Residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Lotan is a member of the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center and his practice focuses on endourology and pelvic laparoscopy. During his training he has focused his research in the area of laparoscopy and decision analysis in a variety of urologic disorders. He works in the area of minimally invasive surgery and decision analysis in urology.

  • Education
    Medical School
    Baylor College of Medicine (1997)
    Internship
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (1998), General Surgery
    Residency
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (1999), General Surgery
    Residency
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2003), Urology
  • Research Interest
    • Biomarker research
    • Decision analysis and outcomes research
    • Robotic and laparoscopic surgery
    • Urologic oncology
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Featured
    Survivin as a prognostic marker for urothelial carcinoma of the bladdre: a multicenter external validation study
    Shariat SF, Karakiewicz PI, Godoy G, Karam JA, Ashfaq R, Fradet Y, Isbarn H, Montorsi F, Jeldres C. Bastian PJ, Nielsen ME, Muller SC, Sagalowsky AI, Lotan Y Clin Cancer Res November 2010 15(22) 7012-19
    Featured
    Bladder Cancer Screening in a High Risk Asymptomatic Population Using a Point of Care Urine Based Protein Tumor Marker
    Lotan Y, Elias K, Svatek RS, Bagrodia A, Nuss G, Moran B, Sagalowsky AI, J Urol May 2009
    Featured
    Prospective Evaluation of the clinical usefulness of reflex fluorescence in situ hybridization assay in patients with atypical cytology for the detection of urothelial cardinoma of the bladder
    Lotan Y, Bensalah K, Ruddell T, Shariat SF, Sagalowsky AI, Ashfaq R J Urol June 2008 179(6) 2164-9
    Featured
    Lymphovascular Invasion is Independently Associated with Overall Survival, Cause-Specific Survival, and Locan and Distant Recurrence in Patients with Negative Lymph Nodes at Radical Cystectomy
    Lotan Y, Gupta A, Shariat SF, Palapattu GS, Vazina A, Karakiewicz PI, Bastian PJ, Rogers CG, Amiel G, Perotte P, Schoenberg MP, Lerner SP, Sagalowsky AI J Clin Oncol. August 2005 August 22
    Featured
    Implications of the prostate cancer prevention trial: a decision analysis model of survival outcomes
    Lotan Y, Cadeddu JA, Lee JJ, Roehrborn CG, Lippman SM J Clin Oncol. March 2005 20;23(9) 1911-20
    BCAN Think Tank session 2: Molecular detection of bladder cancer: the path to progress
    Robinson VL, Porter M, Messing E, Fradet Y, Kamat AM, Lotan Y Urol Oncol May 2010 28(3): 334-7 334-7
    Association of Angiogenesis Related Markers With Bladder Cancer Outcomes and Other Molecular Markers
    Shariat SF, Youssef RF, Gupta A, Chade DC, Karakiewicz PI, Isbarn H, Jeldres C. Sagalowsky AI, Ashfaq R, Lotan Y J Urol May 2010 183(5) 1744-50
    The influence of body mass index on the cost of radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer
    Bolenz C, Gupta A, Hotze T, Ho R, Cadeddu JA, Roehrborn CG, Lotan Y BJU Int March 2010 23
    Role of biomarkers to predict outcomes and response to therapy
    Lotan Y Urol Oncol January 2010 28(1) 97-101
    Survivin as a prognostic marker for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: a multicenter external validation study
    Shariat SF, Karakiewicz PI, Godoy G, Karam JA, Ashfaq R, Fradet Y, Isbarn H, Montorsi F, Jeldres C, Bastian PJ, Nielsen ME, Muller SC, Sagalowsky AI, Lotan Y Clin Cancer Res November 2009 15(22) 7012-19
  • Honors & Awards
    • Merit Award
      American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Cancer Foundation at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (2009)
    • Best Poster
      Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Extraordinary Opportunities for Discovery National Cancer Institute (2008)
    • Who’s Who in America
      (2008)
    • Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award
      Recognition of Research in Prostate Cancer (2003)
    • The Pfizer Scholars in Urology Award
      Urology Pathology Course (2002)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association for Cancer Research
    • American Urologic Association
    • National Urologic Ultrasound Faculty
    • R.O.C.K. Society
    • Society of Urologic Oncology/Society of Endourology