A Time-line History of Urology at the University of Minnesota:1932-2012 Robert W. Geist, MD and Rachel Johnsrud, BS

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1888 –Medical School Founded

Dr. Perry Millard 1st Dean 1888-1898

1892 – Medical Hall

First Medical School building

on campus

1909 move

Old north medical campus—1892 to new south medical campus—1909 1913 – UMN hospital and

medical school building programs cease

1915-1917

Mayo-UMN Graduate

School founded

1922–1938 “The Medical Revolution”

started!

UMN President Lotus Coffman and

Dean Lyon (pictured) resurrect hospital

and medical school building programs

1932-1967

The Creevy Era

1930 - Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen,

Chief of Surgery. 1932 appoints Dr. C.

Donald Creevy Chief of the Division of

Urology.

1923 – North Central Section of

AUA founded in St. Paul, MN

Drs. Fred EB Foley and Gilbert Thomas, at NCS-AUA circa 1930s

1947-1963 - TURP

using isotonic irrigation

mortality rate decreased

to 0.9%

from 3-5% in 1930s)

1946 - Veterans Administration

Medical Center UMN Affiliation

Dr. Julian S. Ansell Prof. and Chair

Dept. of Urology U of Washington,

Seattle 1958-1986

1892 Medical Hall

North UMN

East bank campus

The Medical Campus circa 1930s

Academic Urologists Trained by Dr. Creevy (Drs. Dan Merrill and

Milton Reiser deceased)

Dr. C. Donald Creevy, 1927 Professor C. D. Creevy, MD 1950

Dr. Paul Gonick, 2010 Prof. and Director

of Urology Hahnemann Hospital,

Philadelphia 1969-1980

1912 South Campus completed

•Anatomy (Jackson Hall) •Millard Hall, •UMN Elliot Hospital

Elias Potter Lyon, PhD 4th Dean. 1913-1935

Dr. Donald F. Gleason, Pathologist extraordinaire

1966 Gleason’s Prostate CA grading, scoring,

and category system

The Pioneers of the Gleason Grading and Scoring

System

• Donald F. Gleason, M.D., Ph.D. • George T. Mellinger, M.D. (circa 1969), Director.

Veteran’s Affairs Cooperative Research Group Director, 1959-1970.

• John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., NCI statistician

1925

Dr. Frank Wesbrook

3rd dean 1906

A History of Urology at the University of Minnesota: 1932-2012

1969

Elwin E. Fraley

appointed Chief of

the Department of

Urology

1979-1982 Development of the field of Endourology

Drs. Ralph V. Clayman, Arthur Smith First-ever Endourology course-1982

Kurt Amplatz

premier

Endourology

magic tool

maker Amplatz Children’s Hospital,

Riverside Dr., Mpls, 2010 (Courtesy of Mr. Paul Crosby. ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY)

Department Chiefs of Service 1993-2009

Pratap Reddy

1993-1997

John Hulbert

1996-2001

Jon Pryor

2001-2006

Eduardo Fernandes

2006-2009

Dr. Badrinath Konety and Faculty 2010

Back row: Aseem Shukla, Sean Elliott, Joel Slaton, Joe Lee, Eduardo Fernandes, Manoj Monga, Paul Gleich, Christopher Warlick

Front row: Joshua Bodie, Jane Lewis, Steven Schwartz, Badrinath Konety, Nissrine Nakib, Robert Sweet, William R. Fleischmann

2012

University of Minnesota Medical

Campus

2010

Lange Narayan Reddy Sheldon Williams

Univ. Washington Florida Minnesota Cincinnati Iowa

Seattle

Arthur Smith New York

2009 Beginning

The Konety Era

1969-1993 – the Fraley Era “The “Magic Moment”

Clayman DeWolf Gonzalez Hakala Kaye UC Irvine Harvard Thomas Jefferson Pittsburgh Perth

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1993 – 2009 The Valiant Four:

a battle with economic externalities

Academic Urologists trained by, or associated with, Dr. Fraley

VA Hospital dedicated 1988 Aerial view

from South West

Clinical •Endourology minimal invasive surgery •Flexible nephroscopy/cystoscopy •Neo-bladders from Sigmoid colon •Skin bridge radical groin surgery •En-bloc surgery Ca of the urachus •PSA upstaging Post RRP radiation •Nerve sparing RPLND Laboratory •Monoclonal Antibodies for renal Ca •Initial concept bladder Ca antigens for Dx •Serum bank In vitro germ cell tumor cultivation, AFP assay developed. Academic training

•Sub-specialization within Urology and post-residency

training grants for academic pursuit. Led to a national

trend.

1969-1993 Landmarks

Professor Elwin E. Fraley, MD

Professor Badrinath Konety, MD, MBA 2009