Dr. Wassim Kassouf

Biography

Wassim Kassouf completed his clinical research fellowship in urologic oncology at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, after completing medical school and urology residency at McGill University. He returned to the faculty at McGill University Health Center in 2006. His clinical practice focuses on various aspects of urologic oncology, including bladder, prostate, renal, testes, and penile cancers. Research interests primarily center around bladder cancer. He is currently the Program Director of the McGill Urology Residency. Kassouf also serves as the chair of the MUHC Urology Quality Care Assurance committee and is a member of the Royal College of Urology Specialty committee and the Royal College Examination board committee. He has led the development of national guidelines aimed at optimizing quality care in urologic cancer management, having published over 230 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Furthermore, he has received independent peer-reviewed grant funding from CRS and CIHR and serves as an associate editor for BMC Urology and on the editorial boards of Urology, CUAJ, Clinical Cancer Investigation Journal, and International Brazilian Journal Urology. He is the course director for bladder and upper tract cancers at SIU and AUA, and is the founder of the Canadian Bladder Cancer Network. He has been awarded the American Urological Association Research Scholar Award and the Canadian Urological Association Scholarship Award among others.

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