Patrick Craig Walsh

Patrick Craig Walsh (born February 13, 1938 in Akron (Ohio) ) is an American urologist and surgeon.

Walsh studied medicine at Case Western Reserve University , where he spent four years at Claude Beck's cardiovascular surgery research laboratory. He had his residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (three years internship) and at the University of California, Los Angeles (residency in urology, with urological endocrinology ). He then did two years of military service at the Naval Hospital in San Diego . He then spent a year at Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas with Jean Wilson, with whom he erstbeschrieb the genetic disease called 5-alpha reductase deficiency syndrome and with whom he by hormone therapy in dogs hyperplasia of the prostate could induce. In 1974 he became a professor at the James Buchanan Brady Institute of Urology at Johns Hopkins University .

He developed the Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy (RRP) for prostate cancer with (if possible) nerve protection and erection maintenance. It is a standard surgical procedure.

In 1970 and 1974, Walsh received First Prize for Laboratory Research from the American Urological Association, and in 1978 its Gold Cystoscope Award and Eugene Fuller Award . In 1996 he received the Kettering Prize and in 2007 the König Faisal Prize in Medicine. In 2012 he was awarded the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1980 he was editor-in-chief of Campbell's Textbook of Urology and is co-editor of the Journal of Urology .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sameen Ahmed Khan , The King Faisal International Prizes for 2007 , The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, pp. 69 (April 2007).

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