Dr. Amir Salmasi
Urologist
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Dr. Amir Salmasi is a urologist at UC Sand Diego Health in San Diego, California.
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Episode # 204 • 06 Dec 2024
Managing Low & Intermediate Risk Bladder Cancer
Stay up to date in your bladder cancer practice with this insightful episode of the BackTable Urology podcast, developed in collaboration with the Society of Urologic Oncology. Dr. Betsy Koehne (University of Wisconsin) and Dr. Amir Salmasi (UC San Diego) talk through the contemporary management of low and intermediate-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
This podcast was developed in collaboration with Society of Urologic Oncology.
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About
Amirali Salmasi, MD, is a urologist with expertise in the management of genitourinary cancers in men and women, including bladder, prostate, kidney, ureteral, testicular, adrenal, and penile cancers. He provides a personalized, multidisciplinary approach to deliver the best possible treatment options (active surveillance, focal therapy, surgery, radiation, systemic treatments, or clinical trials) for his patients.
Dr. Salmasi performs advanced minimally invasive and complex open surgeries, such as robotic-assisted laparoscopic cystectomy, nerve-sparing prostatectomy, retro-peritoneal lymph node dissection, adrenalectomy, and partial nephrectomy.
He is also interested in translational research and clinical trials in urologic oncology, and his hope is to bridge the gap between the bench and clinical research. He has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Salmasi completed a urologic oncology fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles and a urology residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As a first step towards a career in academic medicine and research, he also did a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and holds a master's degree in clinical research (MSCR) from UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
He is a member of the American Urological Association, the Society for Urologic Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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