CURRICULUM
VITAE
AJAY
NEHRA, M.D.
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1423 19th Avenue SW Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN 55902 Department of Urology
(507) 252-5446 200 First Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905
(507) 266-4446
LICENSURE: State of Minnesota
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
New York State
BOARD CERTIFICATION: The American Board of Urology
ECFMG Standard Certificate #363-212-2
FLEX F.I.N. #580215016
FACULTY APPOINTMENT:
July 1995 - Present Associate Professor
Mayo Medical School
Consultant
Department of Urology
Mayo Clinic
200 First Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905
HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
July 1993 A.U.A.-A.F.U.D. Dornier Scholar
Department of Urology
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA 01721
May 1994 Faculty A.U.A. Postgraduate Course
89th Annual A.U.A. Meeting
San Francisco, CA
April 1995 Faculty A.U.A. Postgraduate Course
90th Annual A.U.A. Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 1995 American Urological Association
1995 Prize Essay Contest
2nd Prize Clinical Research
Circon-ACMI Prize
90th Annual A.U.A. Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 1995 American Urological Association
Best Poster
Abstract No. 415
90th Annual A.U.A. Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
May 1996 American Urological Association
Best Poster
Abstract No. 1243
91st Annual A.U.A. Meeting
Orlando, FL
April 1997 Faculty A.U.A. Postgraduate Course
92nd Annual A.U.A. Meeting
New Orleans, LA
April 1997 American Urological Association
1997 Best Abstract
Society of Vascular Surgery &
Transplantation
Abstract #1063
92nd Annual A.U.A. Meeting
New Orleans, LA
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND
FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
July 1993 - June 1995 Fellow
Male Sexual Dysfunction and Infertility
Department of Urology
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA.
July 1992 - June 1993 Chief Resident (PGYVI)
Department of Urology
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
July 1991 - June 1992 Senior Resident (PGYV)
Department of Urology
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
July 1990 - June 1991 Junior Resident (PGYIV)
Department of Urology
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
July 1989 - June 1990 Resident (PGYIII)
Department of Urology
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
July 1987 - June 1989 Fellow Neuro-Urology and Female Urology
Department of Urology
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
July 1986 - June 1987 Surgical Resident (PGYII)
Department of Surgery
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
July 1985 - June 1986 Surgical Resident (PGYI)
Department of Surgery
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND
FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS (CONTINUED):
June 1984 - July 1985 Surgical Transitional Intern
Department of Surgery
Malden Hospital
Malden, MA
January 1983 - January 1984 Intern
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India
MEDICAL EDUCATION:
July 1978 - December 1982 M.B., B.S.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India
PREPARATORY EDUCATION:
June 1977 - June 1978 Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA
September 1975 - May 1977 College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
September 1971 - June 1975 Oakton High School
Oakton, VA
NIH GRANTS
Coinvestigator: NIH Program Project, "Pathogenesis of Sarcopenia and Metabolic Changes in Aging." July 1998-June 2003. $1.1 million annually times five years; time 15%.
Urology Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) Study Section, November 18-19, 1998.
1. World Health Organization 1st International Consultation on Erectile Dysfunction, June 1999.
2. American Urological Association: Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Male Infertility, 1999.
1. "Current Concepts of Erectile Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Treatment." February 27-March 1, 1998, Orlando, Florida.
2. “Erectile Dysfunction: The Next Millenium." February 26‑27, 1999, Orlando, Florida.
1. Journal of Urology
2. Biology of Reproduction
3. International Journal of Impotence Research
4. Urology
5. Cancer
6. Journal of Andrology
International Journal of Impotence Research
REMEDICA Publishing website, Sexual Dysfunction in Medicine, www.remedica.com
INVITED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
1. Controversies in Urological Cancer, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey, December 7, 1995.
2. Sexual Dysfunction: Update 1996, Endocrinology Grand Rounds, Department of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, February 7, 1996.
3. Current Perspectives of Erectile Dysfunction, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Long Island, New York, February 15, 1996.
4. Medical and Surgical Management of Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction, Maimonides Medical Center, SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn, NY, February 16, 1996.
5. Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction: Surgical Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, February 29, 1996.
6. International Symposium on the Sexual Erectile Dysfunction and Functional Erectile Surgery, Caracus, Venezuela, October 25-26, 1996.
7. Sociedad Iberoamericana de Urologia Pediatrica, Miami, FL, April 9-11, 1997.
8. 111th SLMA Annual Academic Sessions,
Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 25-28, 1998.
SPEAKER - DEPARTMENTS OF UROLOGY/UROLOGIC
SOCIETIES
1. Department of Urology, John F. Kennedy Medical Center, New York, 1996.
2. Department of Urology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York, 1996.
3. Department of Urology, Maimonides Medical Center, New York, 1996.
4. Department of Urology, Texas Tech University, 1996.
5. American Foundation of Urologic Disease, AUA, 1996.
6. Department of Urology, Hospital Universitario deCaracas, Caracus, Venezuela, 1996.
7. Department of Urology, SIUP, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 1997.
8. Grand Rounds, Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, April 22, 1998.
MEMBERSHIP PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
1. American Urological Association
2. North Central Section, American Urological Association
3. American Medical Association
4. American Society of Reproductive Medicine
5. International Society of Impotence Research
6. Study for the Society of Impotence
7. International Continence Society
8. Society of Male Reproductive Surgeons
9. Minnesota Urological Society
10. American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
11. American College of Surgeons
PUBLICATIONS—PEER REVIEWED
1. Nehra, A., Staskin, D.R., Ouslander, J. “Urinary Incontinence In The Elderly.” Hospital Practice (Office Edition) 23:(5A):133-134, 137-138, 140, May 1988.
2. Nehra, A., Siroky, M.B., Krane, R.J., Staskin, D.R. "Functional Obstruction of the Upper Urinary Tract at the Level of the Ureterovesical Junction Secondary to Bladder Activity." Proceedings of the Urodynamics Society Meeting, 85th. A.U.A. Annual Meeting, May, 1989.
3. Staskin, D.R., Nehra, A., Siroky, M.B., Krane, R.J. “Extended Voiding Cystometry: Technique and Results of Monitoring in Patients With Suprasacral Spinal Cord Injury.” World Journal of Urology 8(4):189-193, 1990.
4. Katz, A.E., Asase, D., Olsson, C.A., Benson, M.C., Giella, J., Rennie, P.S., Bruchovsky, N., Cheng, H., Wise, G.J., Nehra, A., Buttyan, R. "A Potential Role for the MDR-1 Gene in the Development of Androgen-independent Tumors." In: The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Prostate Cancer, eds. Karr, J.P., Coffey, D., Smith, R.G., Tindall, D.J.; Plenum Press, NY., 1991, pgs. 275-276.
5. Katz, A.E., Nehra, A., Lindsey, K., Wise, G.J. "Antibiotic-Associated Pseudomembranous Colitis." Infections in Urology 4:72-73, 93, 1991.
6. Katz, A.E., Nehra, A., Lindsay, K., Frank, R.G., Wise, G., Gerard, P.S. "Percutaneous Management of Renal Abscesses in Children." Infections in Urology 4(6),173-180, November/December, 1991.
7. Siroky, M.B., Nehra, A., Vlachiotis, J., Krane, R.J. "Effect of Spinal Cord Ischemia on Vesicourethral Function." Journal of Urology 148(4):1211-1214, October 1992.
8.
Grigoriev, V., Nehra, A., Staskin , D.R. "The Use of Augmentation Cystoplasty in
Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Indications for Cystoplasty, Ureteral
Reimplantation, and Procedures on the Bladder Outlet." Proceedings
of the Urodynamics Society, 89th Annual American Urological Association,
May 1994.
9. Herbener, T.E., Seftel, A.D., Nehra, A., Goldstein, I. "Penile Ultrasound." Seminars in Urology 12(4):320-332, November 1994.
10. Nehra, A., Hall, S.J., Basile, G., Bertero, E.B., Moreland, R., Toselli, P., de las Morenas, A., Goldstein, I. "Systemic Sclerosis and Impotence: Clinicopathological Correlation." Journal of Urology 153(4):1140-1146, April 1995.
11. Munarriz, R.C., Yan, Q.R., Nehra, A., Udelson, D., Goldstein, I. "Erectile Dysfunction Following Blunt Perineal Trauma: The Pathophysiology of Traumatic Corporal Veno-occlusive Dysfunction Secondary to Impact Injury." Journal of Urology 153:1831, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS—PEER REVIEWED (Continued)
12. Nehra, A., Werner, M.A., Bastuba, M., Title, C., Oates, R.D. "Vibratory Stimulation and Rectal Probe Electroejaculation as Therapy for Patients With Spinal Cord Injury: Semen Parameters and Pregnancy Rates." Journal of Urology 155(2):554-559, February 1996.
13. Hakim, L.S., Munarriz, R. M., Kulaksizoglu H., Nehra, A., Udelson, D., Goldstein, I. "Vacuum Erection Associated Impotence and Peyronie's Disease." Journal of Urology 155(2):534-535, February 1996.
14. Hakim, L.S., Nehra, A., Kulaksizoglu H., Goldstein, I. "Penile Microvascular Arterial Bypass Surgery." Microsurgery 16(5):296-308, 1995.
15. Nehra, A., Goldstein, I., Pabby, A., Nugent, M., Huang, Y.-H., de las Morenas, A., Krane, R.J., Udelson, D., deTejada I.S., Moreland, R.B. "Mechanisms of Venous Leakage: A Prospective Clinicopathological Correlation of Corporeal Function and Structure. Journal of Urology 156(4):1320-1329, October 1996.
16. Harmon W.J., Nehra A. "Priapism: Diagnosis and Management." Mayo Clinic Proceedings 72(4):350-355, April 1997.
17.
Udelson, D., Nehra, A., Hatzichristou. D. G., Azadzoi, K.,
Moreland, R.B., Krane, J., Saenz de Tejada, I., Goldstein, I. "Engineering Analysis Of Penile
Hemodynamic and Structural-Dynamic Relationships: Part I – Clinical Implications of Penile Tissue Mechanical
Properties." International Journal of Impotence Research 10(1):15-24, March 1998.
18. Udelson, D., Nehra, A., Hatzichristou, D.G., Azadzoi, K., Moreland, R.B., Krane, R.J., Saenz de Tejada, I., Goldstein, I. "Engineering Analysis Of Penile Hemodynamic and Structural-Dynamic Relationships: Part II - Clinical Implications of Penile Buckling." International Journal of Impotence Research 10(1):25‑35, March 1998.
19. Hussain, S., Nehra, A., Goldstein, I., Krane, R. J. "Percutaneous Core Biopsy of the Penis." International Journal of Impotence Research 10(1):57-59, discussion 59‑60, March 1998.
20. Gettman, M.T., Levy, J.B., Engen, D.E., Nehra, A. "Urologic Complications Following Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation." Journal of Urology 159(1):38‑43, discussion 42-43, January 1998.
21. Moreland, R.B., Watkins, M.T., Nehra, A., Huang, Y.-H., Munarriz, R., Salimpour, P., Goldstein, I., Traish, A.M. "Oxygen Tension Modulates Transforming Growth Factor -ß1 Expression and PGE Production in Human Corpus Cavernosum Smooth Muscle Cells." Molecular Urology 2(1):41-47, 1998.
PUBLICATIONS—PEER REVIEWED (Continued)
22. Udelson, D., Nehra, A., Hatzichristou, D.G., Azadzoi, K., Moreland, R.B., Krane, R.J., Saenz de Tejada, I., Goldstein, I. "Engineering Analysis Of Penile Hemodynamic and Structural-Dynamic Relationships: Part III - Clinical Considerations of Penile Hemodynamics and Rigidity Erectile Responses." International Journal of Impotence Research 10(2):89-99, June 1998.
23. Nehra, A., Azadzoi, K.M., Moreland, R.B., Pabby, A., Siroky, M.B., Krane, R.J., Goldstein, I., Udelson, D.G. "Cavernosal Expandability is an Erectile Tissue Mechanical Property Which Predicts Trabecular Histology in an Animal Model of Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction." Journal of Urology 159(6):2229-2236, June 1998.
24. Brown, J.A., Nehra, A. "Erythropoietin Induced Recurrent Veno-Occlusive Priapism Associated With End-Stage Renal Disease." Urology 52(2):328-330, August 1998.
25. Sadehgi-Najad, H., Moreland, R.B., Traish, A.M., Nehra, A., Azadzoi, K.M., Goldstein I. “Preliminary Report on the Development of Rabbit Clitoral Smooth Muscle Cell Culture.” International Journal of Impotence Research 10:165-170, 1998.
26. Moreland, R.B., Watkins, M.T., Nehra, A., Huang, Y.-H., Munarriz, R., Salimpour, P. Goldstein, I., Traish, A.M. “Oxygen Tension Modulates Transforming Growth Factor b1 Expression and PGE Production in Human Corpus Cavernosum Smooth Muscle Cells.” Molecular Urology 2:41-47, 1998.
27. Park, J.-K., Moreland, R.B., Nehra, A. “The Role of Oxygen Tension in Penile Erection and Its Relationship to Erectile Dysfunction." Digital Urology Journal September 1998 http://www.duj.com/Article/Nehra/Nehra.html
28. Gettman, M. T., Barrett, D.M., Nehra. A. “Androgen Replacement Therapy: Fact or Folly.” AUA Update Series Lesson 2, Volume XVIII:10-15, 1999.
29. Cheng, L., Neumann, R.M., Scherer, B.G., Weaver, A.L., Leibovich, B.C., Nehra, A., Zincke, H., Bostwick, D.G. “Tumor Size Predicts the Survival of Patients With Pathologic Stage T2 Bladder Carcinoma. A Critical Evaluation of the Depth of Muscle Invasion.” Cancer 85(12):2638-2647, June 1999.
30. Nehra, A., Goldstein, I. “Sildenafil Citrate (Viagra) After Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: Con.” Urology 5(4):587-589, 1999.
31. Nehra, A., Gettman, M.T., Nugent, M.A., Bostwick, D.G., Barrett, D.M., Goldstein, I., Krane, R.J., Moreland, R.B. “Transforming Growth Factor-b1 (TGF-b1) is Sufficient to Induce Fibrosis of Rabbit Corpus Cavernosum In Vivo.” Journal of Urology 162:910‑915, September 1999.
PUBLICATIONS—PEER REVIEWED (Continued)
32. Cheng, L., Nascimento, A.G., Neurmann, R.M., Nehra, A., Cheville, J.C., Ramnani, D.M., Leibovich, B.C., Bostwick, D.G. “Hemangioma of the Urinary Bladder.” Cancer 86(3):498-504, August 1999.
33. Nehra, A., Barrett, D.M., Moreland, R.B. “Pharmacotherapeutic Advances in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction.” Mayo Clinic Proceedings 74:709-721, July 1999.
34. Nehra, A. “Treatment of Endocrinologic Male Sexual dysfunction.” Mayo Clinic Proceedings (76(suppl):S0-S0--In Press, 2000).
35. Cheng, L., Darson, M., Cheville, J.C., Neuman, R.M., Zincke, H., Nehra, A., Bostwick, D.G. “Urothelial Papilloma of the Bladder: Clinical and Biologic Implications.” Cancer 86(10):2098-2101, November 1999.
36. Cheng, L., Neumann, R.M., Nehra, A., Spotts, B.E., Weaver, A.L., Bostwick, D.G. “Cancer Heterogeneity and Its Biologic Implications in the Grading of Urothelial Carcinoma.” Cancer (In Press).
37. Cheng, L., Darson, M., Cheville, J.C., Neumann, R.M., Zincke, H., Nehra, A., Bostwick, D.G. “Natural History of Urothelial Papilloma of the Bladder.” Cancer (In Press).
38. Cheng, L., Neumann, R.M., Weaver, A.L., Cheville, J.C., Leibovich, B.C., Ramnani, D.M., Scherer, B.G., Nehra, A., Zincke, H., Bostwick, D.G. “Grading and Staging of Bladder Carcinoma in Transurethral Resection Specimens: Correlation With 105 Cystectomy Specimens.” American Journal of Clinical Pathology 113:275-279, 2000.
39. Cheng, L., Leibovich, B.C., Cheville, J.C., Ramnani, D.M., Sebo, T.J., Nehra, A., Bostwick, D.G. “In Situ Hybridization Detection of Human Papillomavirus in Squamous Lesions of the Urinary bladder: Is Squamous Papilloma Related to Condyloma Acuminata?” American Journal of Surgical Pathology (Submitted).
40. Leibovich, B.D., Cheng, L., Zincke, H., Nehra, A., Mahoney, D.W., Plevak, M.F., Bostwick, D.G. “p53 Status Predicts Recurrence and Progression of Low-Stage (ST1) Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder.” Journal of Urology (Submitted).
41. Moreland, R.B., Kim, N.N., Nehra, A., Parulkar, B.G., Traish, A. “Misoprostol Induces Relaxation of Human Corpus Cavernosum Smooth Muscle: Comparison to Prostaglandin E1.” International Journal of Impotence Research (In Press, October 1999).
42. Cheng, L., Nehra, A. “Squamous Papilloma of the Urinary Tract is Unrelated to Condyloma Acuminata.” Cancer (In Press, April 2000).
43. Cheng, L., Nehra, A. “Predicting Survival in Bladder Cancer Patients Treated by Radical Cystectomy.” Cancer (In Press, November 1999).
PUBLICATIONS—NON PEER REVIEWED: AUDIO
1. Nehra, A., and Wise, G.J. "Interleukin-2 and Bladder Cancer." In: Medical Outlook for Urologists 7(1), The Courtlandt Group, Ossining, New York, 1993.
2. Goldstein, I., Nehra, A. "Medical Management of Impotence" In: Medical Outlook for Urologists 9(1), June 1995.
PUBLICATIONS—NON PEER REVIEWED: ON-LINE
Nehra, A. “Peyronie’s Disease: Throwing You a Curve.” Mayo Health Oasis, May 1997. http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9705/htm/peyronie.htm
PUBLICATIONS—NON PEER REVIEWED
1. Nehra, A. “Alprostadil.” Mayo Clinic Health Letter, May 1997
2. Nehra, A. “Elmiron.” Mayo Clinic Health Letter, June 1997.
3. Nehra, A. “Impotence.” Mayo Clinic Health Letter, July 1997.
Nehra, A. “Mayo Study Examines Erectile Dysfunction in Drugs in Combination.” The Chronicle of Urology and Sexual Medicine, June 1999.
CHAPTERS
1. Nehra, A., and Vardi, Y. "Hydrodistention and Intraoperative Urodynamics." In: Interstitial Cystitis, eds., Hanno, P., Staskin, D.R., Krane, R.J., and Wein, A. Springer Verlag, 1990, pp. 120-127.
2. Seftel, A., Nehra, A., and Goldstein, I. "Penile Ultrasonography" In: Applications Of Urologic Ultrasonography, eds., Resnick, M.I., Seminars in Urology. W. B. Saunders, November 1994.
3. Hakim L., Nehra, A., and Goldstein, I. “Chapter 8. Complications in Penile Microvascular Arterial Bypass Surgery” In: Complications of Interventional Techniques. Ed., Culley C. Carson III, New York: Igaku-Shoin, pp. 134-151, 1996.
4. Nehra, A., Goldstein, I. “Chapter 3. Epidemiology of Male Sexual Dysfunction” In: The Handbook of Sexual Dysfunction, eds. Hellstrom, W.J.G., pp. 7-11, 1999.
5. Moreland, R.B., Nehra, A. "Pathophysiology of Erectile Dysfunction: A Molecular Basis." In: Textbook of Erectile Dysfunction. Eds. I. Goldstein, R. Kirby, C. C. Carson, ISIS Medical Media, Oxford pp. 105-115, 1999.
6. Nehra, A., Moreland, R.B. "Corpus Cavernosum Fibrosis: Towards a Molecular Pathology of Erectile Dysfunction." In: Male Sexual Dysfunction, eds. Krane, R.J, Siroky, M, Goldstein, I. Churchill Livingstone (In Press).
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