56th Kimbrough Seminar Awards

Prince Beach MD Award
LTC Andrew Peterson, MC, USA
Madigan Army Medical Center
Tacoma, WA
Winning Paper: PERSISTENT STRESS INCONTINENCE AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY IS MORE COMMON THAN EXPECTED AND NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE NERVE SPARING TECHNIQUE: RESULTS FROM THE CENTER FOR PROSTATE DISEASE RESEARCH (CPDR) DATABASE

Best Basic Science Research
First Place
CPT Chad DeRosa, MC, USA
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC
Winning Paper: ELEVATED SECRETED PROTEIN, ACIDIC AND RICH IN CYSTEINE (SPARC) EXPRESSION IN PROSTATE CANCER CORRELATES WITH TUMOR METASTASIS AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY

Second Place
CPT(P) Dorota J. Hawksworth, MC, USA
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC
Winning Paper: QUANTITATIVE MRNA EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF C-MYC ONCOGENE IN HUMAN PROSTATE CANCER

Honorable Mention
CPT Eric Whitman, MC, USA
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC
Winning Paper: PCA3 SCORE BEFORE RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY PREDICTS EXTRACAPSULAR EXTENSION AND TUMOR VOLUME

Best Clinical Research Paper
First Place
Capt. Forrest C. Jellison, MC, USAF
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, CA
Winning Paper: ULTRA LOW DOSE RADIATION COMPARED TO STANDARD MDCT FOR DETECTION OF DISTAL URETERAL CALCULI

Second Place
CPT Danielle A. Stackhouse
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Urologic Surgery
Durham, NC
Winning Paper: GLEASON SUM UNDERGRADING: PREDICTING DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN BIOPSY AND PATHOLOGIC GLEASON SCORES

Honorable Mention
CPT L. Andrew Evans, MC, USA
SAUSHEC
San Antonio, TX
Winning Paper: LONG-TERM RESULTS OF URETHROLYSIS FOR VOIDING DYSFUNCTION AFTER INCONTINENCE PROCEDURES

Best Basic Science Poster
Albert Dobi, PhD
Center for Prostate Disease Research
Rockville, MD
Winning Poster: SPLICE VARIANTS AND FUNCTIONS OF TMPRSS2-ERG FUSION, A COMMON GENOMIC ALTERATION IN PROSTATE CANCER

Best Clinical Poster
LCDR Joe Miller, MC, USNR
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Division of Urology
Springfield, IL
Winning Poster: THE UTILITY OF FREE PSA TESTING IN MEN WHO ARE SEEN IN CONSULTATION FOR AN ELEVATED PSA