Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology  
 
Society of Urodynamics and Female Urology, Inc.
 
2010 SUFU Awards


Lifetime Achievement Award: Sender Herschorn, MD
Zimskind Award: Kathleen C. Kobashi, MD
Distinguished Service Award: Timothy B. Boone, MD, PhD

Clinical Essay Award: Prashanth Kanagarajah, MD
WHAT IS THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF URODYNAMICS WHEN COMPARED TO CLINICAL HISTORY AND VALIDATED INSTRUMENTS?

Basic Science Essay Award: Ariana L. Smith, MD
THE EFFECTS OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC STRESS ON BLADDER STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Basic Science Poster Awards:
CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED IN INTERSTITIAL CELLS MODULATES BLADDER FUNCTION
Vivian Cristofaro PhD

EFFECTS OF OBESITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES ON RECOVERY FROM PUDENDAL NERVE INJURY IN FEMALE ZUCKER RATS
Bradley C. Gill, BSE

CAN MODELIZED ANALYSIS OF PRESSURE-FLOW STUDIES IMPROVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NERVOUS CONTROL OF BOTH BLADDER AND URETHRA?
Françoise Valentini MD, PhD

 
2009 SUFU Awards


Lifetime Achievement Award: Anthony R. Stone, MD
Zimskind Award: Michael E. Albo, MD
Distinguished Service Award: Gary E. Lemack, MD

Clinical Essay Award: Pradeep Tyagi, PhD
HYPOTHESIS DRIVEN URINE PROTEOMIC STUDY ON INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SYNDROME (IC/PBS) PATIENTS

Basic Science Essay Award: Minoru Miyazato, MD, PhD
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS VECTOR-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERLY OF GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE REDUCES DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY IN SPINAL CORD INJURED RATS

Basic Science Poster Awards:
SPONTANEOUS RHYTHMIC CONTRACTION IN DETRUSOR SMOOTH MUSCLE IS CONTROLLED BY CYCLOOXYGENASE PRODUCTS RELEASED BY INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL
Clinton Collins, MD

NON-ANESTHETIZED MOUSE MODEL FOR RECORDING SENSORY URINARY BLADDER ACTIVITY
Peter Zvara, MD, PhD

FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF STRETCH-DEPENDENT POTASSIUM /TREK-1 CHANNELS IN PARTIAL BLADDER OUTLET OBSTRUCTION
Salah Baker, PhD

Video Award: Melissa Fischer, MD

NAFC Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award: Roger R. Dmochowski, MD

 
2008 SUFU Awards


Lifetime Achievement Award: Rodney A. Appell, MD
Zimskind Award: Larissa V. Rodriguez, MD
Distinguished Service Award: Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD

Clinical Essay Award: Michael Flynn, MD
SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES OF A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO CONTROLLED TRIAL OF BOTULINUM A TOXIN FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE IDIOPATHIC DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY INCONTINENCE.

Basic Science Essay Award: HaiHong Jiang, MD PhD
DUAL SIMULATED CHILDBIRTH INJURIES RESULT IN SLOWED RECOVERY OF PUDENDAL NERVE AND URETHRAL FUNCTION

Basic Science Poster Awards:
DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY IN SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS IS ASSOCIETED WITH ALTERATIONS IN CAVEOLAE-MEDIATED SIGNALING EVENTS
Vivian Cristofaro, PhD

CHRONIC SOY AND PHYTOESTROGEN TREATMENT LEADS TO SIGNIFICANT FUNCTIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE URETHRA OF FEMALE NON-HUMAN PRIMATES
Christian Gratzke, MD

NEUROSELECTIVE ELECTROSTIMULATION OF THE BLADDER AFFERENT PATHWAYS INDUCES C-FOS EXPRESSION IN THE REGIONS OF THE SPINE SPECIFIC FOR BLADDER AFFERENT C AND A-DELTA FIBERS
Yasuhiro Yamada, MD

 
2007 SUFU Awards


Lifetime Achievement Award: Karl-Erik Andersson, MD, PhD

Zimskind Award: Firouz Daneshgari, MD

Clinical Essay Award: Carolyn Langford, DO
DO WOMEN HAVE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS OF TREATMENT FOR STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE?

Basic Science Essay Award: Gopal Nand Gupta, MD
INCREASED EFFICACY AND POTENCY OF CARBACHOL IN INDUCING INCREASES IN INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM ([CA2+]I) AND OUTWARD POTASSIUM CURRENTS (I0) IN OVERACTIVE BLADDER (OAB) AND INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS (IC) HUMAN BLADDER UROTHELIAL CELLS (BUC)

Basic Science Poster Awards:
DIFFERENTIAL VULNERABILITIES OF URETHRAL AFFERENTS IN DIABETES AND FINDING OF A NOVEL URETHRA-TO-URETHRA REFLEX
Zhonghuang Yang, MD, PhD

URINARY INCONTINENCE, BLADDER DYSFUNCTION AND PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE IN LYSYL OXIDASE LIKE-1 (LOXL1) MUTANT MICE: A COMPLETE ANIMAL MODEL FOR FEMALE PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS?
Una Lee, MD 

LINK BETWEEN CYTOKINE EXPRESSION AND PURINERGIC SIGNALING IN BLADDER UROTHELIAL CELLS (BUC)
Yan Sun, PhD

 
2006 SUFU Awards


Lifetime Achievement Award: George Webster, MD

Zimskind Award: Christopher Patrick Smith, MD

Clinical Essay Award: Kristy Borawski, MD
A RANDOMIZED PROSPECTIVE STUDY COMPARING THE EFFICACY OF TWO TEST STIMULATION TECHNIQUES FOR SACRAL NEUROMODULATION IN URGE INCONTINENT WOMEN ≥ 55 YEARS OF AGE

Basic Science Essay Award: Vivian Cristofaro, PhD
BLADDER SMOOTH MUSCLE CAVEOLAE DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS

Video Award: Ryan Hedgepeth, MD
THE CONTINENT EXTRAPERITONEAL VESICOCUTANEOUS ACCESS TUNNEL (CEVCAT)

 
2005 SUFU Awards


Lifetime Achievement Award: Paul Abrams, MD

Zimskind Award: Toby C. Chai, MD

Clinical Essay Award: Mary P. Fitzgerald
VISCERAL AND CUTANEOUS SENSITIVITY IN SUBJECTS WITH PAINFUL BLADDER SYNDROME

Basic Science Essay Award: Larissa V. Rodriguez, MD
NEW OBJECTIVE MEASURES TO QUANTIFY STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE IN A NOVEL DURABLE ANIMAL MODEL OF INTRINSIC SPHINCTER DEFICIENCY

Video Award: Jaspreet Sandhu, MD
THE MALE BULBOURETHRAL SLING: SIMPLIFYING THE TECHNIQUE

 
2004 SUFU Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award: Gary E. Leach, MD

Zimskind Award: R. Duane Cespedes, MD

Poster Award: Gina Angela Defreitas, MD
REFINING THE DIAGNOSIS OF FEMALE OUTLET OBSTRUCTION: A COMPARISON OF PRESSURE-FLOW STUDY PARAMETERS IN CLINICALLY OBSTRUCTED WOMEN TO THOSE OF NORMAL CONTROLS

Video Award: E. James Wright, MD
LAPAROSCOPIC SACRAL COLPOPERINEOPEXY FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERINEAL BODY DESCENT AND VAGINAL VAULT PROLAPSE

Logo Contest: Nick Stocker (friend of Dr. Leonard D. Gaum)