Cleveland Clinic Foundation
After completion of my training in advanced endoscopic surgery with renowned endourologist Dr. Jorge Gutierrez, current director of the Center for Endourology and Stone Disease at the Glickman Urology and Kidney Institute (Cleveland Clinic Foundation), I started my practice in a high-volume stone disease center. This clinical position gave me the opportunity to be immersed in a great deal of research about the treatment, prevention, and natural history of urinary stone disease, which is a debilitating condition quickly increasing in prevalence worldwide. After multiple presentations at international meetings, I started a collaboration with Dr. Manoj Monga, former secretary of the American Urological Association, and former director of the Center for Endourology and Stone Disease at Cleveland Clinic, and a part of the research team of Dr. Aaron Miller. From this collaboration, I was invited to develop a collaborative research project, focused on potential resident urinary bacteria and the development of urinary stone disease. Presently, I am working in the lab of Dr. Aaron Miller in different translational research projects associated with the identification of a novel microbiome in kidney tissue, and its mechanistic role in stone formation. A better understanding of the role of kidney bacteria in the pathogenesis of non-infection urinary stone disease will help to generate a strategic avenue for novel preventative and therapeutic targets.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
8:45 AM – 10:00 AM