Kenneth Glassberg

Dept of Urology, Columbia University, USA

Kenneth I Glassberg

Academic positions:
- Director of the Division of Pediatric Urology of the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
- Professor of Urology at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
The Division's basic research lab is investigating the molecular biology of kidney and ureteral development in an attempt to determine the cause of various congenital anomalies

Any other information:
Dr Glassberg is President of the New York Section of the American Urological Association, Chairperson of the Section on Urology of the New York Academy of Medicine and President of the New York Pediatric Society and the Brooklyn-Queens Long Island Urological Society. He has approximately 125 journals and chapter publications covering the full span of pediatric urology including congenital anomalies of the urinary tract, incontinence, cystic disease of the kidney, laparoscopy and the surgical management of vesicoureteral reflux, varicoceles, hypospadias and external genitalia.

He previously headed the Nomenclature Committee of the Section on Urology of the American Academy of Pediatrics which was responsible for classifying many pediatric urology conditions.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Urology > Pediatric Urology (since 16 November 2005)

Kenneth Glassberg is a Section Head for Pediatric Urology, part of the UROLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/urology/glassberg.html