May 28, 2008 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club

WHO ATTENDED

6:30 pm: Network Reception

7:30 pm: Dinner & Speaker

Speaker: Laurence Klotz, MD, FRCSC(C), Associate Professor, Division of Urology, University of Toronto Topic: "Prostatic Value of PSA Kinetics in Prostate Cancer Patients with Biochmical Recurrence."
	Meeting Fees No charge to: Members (in good standing) Residents $30 Fee to: Senior Members Health Professionals Spouse/Guests Out of Area Doctors Orange County Non-Members: click for Membership Information

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1)	Describe the need for improved therapeutic strategies for patients with advanced prostate cancer.
2)	Identify key barriers to treatment for minotiry or under represented populations.
3)	Detail data on new prostatic value of PSA kinetics in the management of Prostate Cancer.
4)	Assess emerging concepts and strategies in the management of Prostate Cancer.

 

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Laurence Klotz, MD, FRCSC(C)
Associate Professor, Division of Urology, University of Toronto

Advisory Boards:
Chair, Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee

Awards/Recognitions:
Co-Investigator, Five-year inter-institutional prostate cancer network grant by the Canadian Prostate Cancer Research Initiative (NCIC)

Clinical Trials/Research:
Control of prostate growth and mechanisms of hormone resistance and programmed cell death.
Neoadjuvant Cyproterone Acetate prior to prostatectomy vs radical prostatectomy alone in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer.
Nerve stimuation and tumescence monitoring to guide surgery.
Research suggesting 1 in 5 men with prostate cancer could avoid treatment altogether without suffering any negative health consequences (based on non-aggressive forms of cancer).

Editorial Boards:
Founding Editor in Chief, Canadian Journal of Urology
Managing Editor in Urology Section fo the Internal Medicine Journal of eMedicine.com

Education/Training:
MD, University of Toronto (1977)
Residency: University of Toronto Gallie Program in Surgery (1983)
Fellowship Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1985), Special Fellow in Uro-Oncology and Tumor Biology

Preferred Talk Topics:
Hormone Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer
Evaluation and Treatment of Metastatic Bone Disease
LHRH Agonists in the Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer: Detection, Staging, and Treatment Options

Presentations:
"CUOG/Global COOP GU", Cooperative Group Clinical Trials: GU Oncology, 1st Annual Meeting in Urologic Oncology, Dec. 2000

Professional Duties:
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Chief, Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
Past Chair, Canadian Uro-Oncology Group (CUOG) and NCIC GU Site Group
Chair, Global GU Oncology Group
Chair, Canadian Urology Research Consortium
Chair, Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada

Professional Memberships:
CUOG Executive Committee, Chairman
Canadian Medical Association
Canadian Urological Association
Member of Ontario Medical Association
Member, American Society of Urological Oncology
Member, American Urologic Association
Royal College of Surgeons of Canada

Publications/Books:
Klotz L, et al. Prostate Cancer and Erectile Dysfunction: Men's Experiences. International Journal of Men's Health, Vol. 1, Num. 1, Jan. 2002.

Fleshner N, Rakovitch E, Klotz L. Differences between urologists in the United States and Canada in the approach to prostate cancer. J Urol. 2000;163(5):1461-1466.

Klotz L, Gleave M, Goldenberg SL. Neoadjuvant hormone therapy: the Canadian trials. Mol Urol. 2000;4(3):233-238.

Bruchovsky N, Klotz LH, Sadar M, et al. Intermittent androgen suppression for prostate cancer: Canadian prospective trial and related observations. Mol Urol. 2000;4(3):191-200.

Klotz L, Heaton J, Jewett M, et al. A randomized phase 3 study of intraoperative cavernous nerve stimulation with penile tumescence monitoring to improve nerve sparing during radical prostatectomy. J Urol. 2000;164(5):1573-1578.

Klotz LH. Educational research in urology. Can J Urol. 1999;6(3):764.