Hopkins Prostate Cancer Experts Available

September 19-25 is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Week. If you are planning a story on prostate cancer, a disease that’s diagnosed in more than 200,000 American men each year, please consider calling on experts from the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute. With a variety of experts whose work truly follows the “bench to bedside” model of clinical research — focusing on developing innovative new treatments as well as basic research to better understand this common and sometimes deadly disease — the Brady Institute can provide you with unique sources who can answer your questions about prostate cancer. To schedule an interview with any of our urologists or researchers, please contact David March at 410-955-1534 or dmarch1@jhmi.edu.

Alan Partin, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Partin, a professor of urology and director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Urology, has both a basic science and clinical interest in predicting prognosis for men with prostate cancer. Dr. Partin's laboratories and clinical and surgical interests are focused on developing and testing new and existing methods for predicting the aggressiveness of prostate cancers so that doctors and patients can make informed treatment decisions. Dr. Partin's laboratories have investigated new serum tests to diagnose prostate cancer with proteins that may help in the detection and staging of prostate cancer.

H. Ballentine Carter, M.D.

Dr. Carter, professor of urology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Division of Adult Urology, runs the Expectant Management Program (also called active surveillance) for prostate cancer at Johns Hopkins. This program is designed to select men who are thought to have low-risk cancers and gives them the option to be carefully monitored as an alternative to immediate surgery or other treatments. Dr. Carter is working with the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (a study led by the National Institute on Aging) to further define the age-related events that lead to the development of prostate disease. He also pioneered the concept of PSA rate of change (PSA velocity) as a marker of prostate cancer presence and the use of free PSA to predict the behavior of prostate cancer.

Arthur Burnett, M.D., M.B.A.

Dr. Burnett is professor of urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Basic Science Laboratory in Neurourology and the Male Consultation Clinic. He has performed more than 2,000 radical prostatectomy surgeries and is an expert in nerve-sparing techniques and the use of a single, minimally invasive 3-inch incision just above the pubic bone, which promotes rapid recovery and cosmetic appearance. He is recognized for being a world authority in the science and medicine of male erectile dysfunction and has pioneered work to develop therapies to protect penile nerve function required for improved erectile function recovery after radical prostatectomy.