

Dr. Lindsay Hampson
Urologist
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Dr. Lindsay Hampson is an associate professor of urology at UCSF in San Francisco, California.
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Episode # 249 • 22 Jul 2025
Palliative Care in Urology
Often misunderstood as end-of-life care, palliative care is actually about improving quality of life at any stage of serious illness. In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Ashwin Kotwal, a geriatrician and palliative care physician at UCSF, and Dr. Pauline Filippou, a urologic oncologist at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California join hosts Dr. Gina Badalato and Dr. Lindsay Hampson to discuss the importance of palliative care in the field of urology.
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About
Lindsay Hampson, MD, MAS, received her undergraduate training from Duke University, where she earned a degree in Bioethics. She then completed a 2-year research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the Department of Clinical Bioethics, where her research focused on financial conflicts of interest in research and vulnerable populations. She then earned her MD and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society at the University of Michigan Medical School on a full academic scholarship as a Dean's Scholar. She completed her general surgery and urology training at the University of California, San Francisco, in 2015 where she earned the Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Medical Education award. During her residency, she also undertook a research fellowship at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy studies and concurrently earned a certificate in Advanced Training in Clinical Research from the UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. After her residency training, she completed a fellowship in Genitourinary Reconstruction & Trauma at the University of Washington in Seattle, under the guidance of Drs. Hunter Wessells and Bryan Voelzke. In 2016, Dr. Hampson was recruited back to join the faculty at UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Since being back at UCSF she has received numerous awards for mentorship, including the UCSF Explore Mentor Award for her mentorship of medical student research and the UCSF Department of Urology Peter R. Carroll Mentorship Award for her mentorship of urology residents. She is the Co-Director of the UCSF Lifetime Congenital Urology Program and has been named the Associate Chair of Education & Residency Program Director for the UCSF Urology Residency program.
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