M.D., FACS
University of California, San Diego
Chief Scientific Officer, Genesis Healthcare Partners, San Diego
Executive Medical Director, Urology Partners of America
Voluntary Professor, Urology, UC San Diego, California
Franklin Gaylis, MD, FACS, is Chief Scientific Officer of Genesis Healthcare Partners (GHP), an Integrated Urology Group, and voluntary Professor of Urology at the University of California, San Diego. He received his MBBCh/MD (Cum Laude) from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he graduated in the top 5% of his medical school class. After a year of basic science research, Dr. Gaylis completed his general surgical training at the University of Minnesota and his specialty training in urology at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. He was nominated to the distinguished Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society at Northwestern.
Dr. Gaylis is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the California Medical Association and American Urological Association and diplomat of the American Board of Urology. He lectures nationally and internationally on the subject of medical quality. His research has been published in journals including Urology, Journal of Urology, NEJM and JAMA. Dr. Gaylis’ practice has been focused on early and late stage prostate cancer. He actively pursues cutting edge research on quality improvement and methods to optimize clinical outcomes. He has developed clinical tools aimed at improving outcomes following radical prostatectomy as well as reducing cost. Dr Gaylis and his team at Genesis Healthcare Partners have been awarded a Pay-for-Performance demonstration project by UnitedHealthcare to optimize the quality of active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer. He has also developed a urinary tract dilator instrument to facilitate the efficient removal of kidney stones that has improved the safety of the procedure as well as significantly reducing costs. Dr Gaylis was awarded the Anthony W. Middleton, M.D. Grand Prize Poster Award in 2021
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