IthaarDerweeshMD

Minimally Invasive Surgery, Surgical Oncology

Professor of Urology and Radiology; Program Director, Urologic Oncology Fellowship; Director, Kidney Cancer Program; Department of Urology/Moores UCSD Cancer Center; UC San Diego School of Medicine

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Office
3855 Health Sciences Drive Mail Code 0987
Moores UCSD Cancer Center
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone(858) 657-7876
Fax(858) 822-6188
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Education & Training

Cleveland Clinic FoundationFellowship, American Foundation of Urological Disease/AUA Foundation (2001-2003); Kidney Transplantation and Renovascular Surgery (2003-2005), 2001 - 2005
Yale-New Haven HospitalResidency, Urology, 1998 - 2000
Yale-New Haven HospitalResidency, General Surgery, 1995 - 1997
University of Chicago Pritzker School of MedicineClass of 1995

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2008 - 2022
CA State Medical License 2008 - 2022
TN State Medical License 2005 - 2016
OH State Medical License 2002 - 2009
CT State Medical License 2000 - 2001
American Board of Urology Urology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Assistant Editor, Journal of Urology American Urological Association, 2017
Choose Wisely Champion American Urological Association, 2017
Management of Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Guideline Panel American Urological Association, 2017
Editor, BJU International 2016
AUA-EAU Exchange Program American Urological Association, 2016
Leadership Program American Urological Association, 2014-2015
Follow up of Localized Renal Neoplasms: Guideline Panel American Urological Association, 2013
Management of Clinical T1 Renal Mass: Guideline Panel American Urological Association, 2009
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011-2013
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
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Clinical Trials

Prior Axitinib as a Determinant of Outcome of Renal Surgery Ithaar H Derweesh, MD, Ithaar H Derweesh, MD, Brian I Rini, MD, and Steven C Campbell, MD, PhD

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Trifecta Outcomes of Partial Nephrectomy in Patients Over 75 Years Old: Analysis of the REnal SURGery in Elderly (RESURGE) Group
Ahmet Bindayi, Riccardo Autorino, Umberto Capitanio, Nicola Pavan, Maria Carmen Mir, Alessandro Antonelli, Toshio Takagi, Riccardo Bertolo, Tobias Maurer, Koon Ho Rha,...> ;European urology focus. 2020 Sep 15
Partial versus radical nephrectomy in very elderly patients: a propensity score analysis of surgical, functional and oncologic outcomes (RESURGE project).
Maria Carmen Mir, Nicola Pavan, Umberto Capitanio, Alessandro Antonelli, Ithaar H. Derweesh, O. Rodriguez-Faba, Estefania Linares, Toshio Takagi, Koon Ho Rha, Christia...> ;World Journal of Urology. 2020 Jan 1
Outcomes of Partial and Radical Nephrectomy in Octogenarians – A Multicenter International Study (Resurge)
Alessandro Antonelli, Alessandro Veccia, Nicola Pavan, Carmen Mir, Alberto Breda, Toshio Takagi, Koon Ho Rha, Tobias Maurer, Chao Zhang, Jean-Alexandre Long, Cosimo De...> ;Urology. 2019 Jul 1
Neoadjuvant Sunitinib Decreases Inferior Vena Caval Thrombus Size and Is Associated With Improved Oncologic Outcomes: A Multicenter Comparative Analysis.
Charles Field, Brittney Cotta, Juan Jimenez, Brian R. Lane, Kendrick Yim, Hak J. Lee, Stephen Ryan, Zachary Hamilton, Sunil Patel, Song Wang, Christopher J. Kane, Sumi...> ;Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 2019 Jun 1
Re: The Temporal Association of Robotic Surgical Diffusion with Overtreatment of the Small Renal Mass.
Alessandro Veccia, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Alessandro Antonelli, Riccardo Autorino> ;European Urology. 2019 May 1
Systemic therapy in the management of localized and locally advanced renal cell carcinoma: Current state and future perspectives.
Sean Berquist, Kendrick Yim, Stephen Ryan, Sunil Patel, Ahmed Eldefrawy, Brittney Cotta, Aaron Bradshaw, Margaret Meagher, Ahmet Bindayi, Rana R. McKay, Riccardo Autor...> ;International Journal of Urology. 2019 May 1
Expanding the feasibility of nephron‐sparing surgery: time for a paradigm shift?
Alessandro Veccia, Georgi Guruli, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Riccardo Autorino> ;BJUI. 2019 May 1
Rising Serum Uric Acid Level Is Negatively Associated with Survival in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Kendrick Yim, Ahmet Bindayi, Rana R. McKay, Reza Mehrazin, Omer A. Raheem, Charles Field, Aaron Bloch, Robert W. Wake, Stephen Ryan, Anthony L. Patterson, Ithaar H. De...> ;Cancers. 2019 Apr 15
Current Status of Immunotherapy for Localized and Locally Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Fady Ghali, Sunil Patel, Ithaar H. Derweesh> ;Journal of Oncology. 2019 Apr 1
A Return to the Days of Radical Nephrectomy as the "Gold Standard" for Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma? Not So Fast.
Ithaar H. Derweesh, Michael Staehler, Robert G. Uzzo> ;European Urology. 2019 Apr 1
Near-infrared Fluorescence Imaging with Indocyanine Green in Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy: Pooled Analysis of Comparative Studies.
Alessandro Veccia, Alessandro Antonelli, Lance J. Hampton, Francesco Greco, Sisto Perdonà, Estevao Lima, Ashok K. Hemal, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Francesco Porpiglia, Ricca...> ;European urology focus. 2019 Mar 20
Percutaneous renal mass biopsy: historical perspective, current status, and future considerations.
Brittney Cotta, Margaret Meagher, Aaron Bradshaw, Stephen Ryan, Gerant Rivera-Sanfeliz, Ithaar H. Derweesh> ;Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy. 2019 Feb 20
Robotic versus laparoscopic radical nephrectomy: a large multi-institutional analysis (ROSULA Collaborative Group).
Uzoma A. Anele, Michele Marchioni, Bo Yang, Giuseppe Simone, Robert G. Uzzo, Clayton Lau, Maria Carmen Mir, Umberto Capitanio, James R. Porter, Ken Jacobsohn, Nicolo d...> ;World Journal of Urology. 2019 Feb 7
Should partial nephrectomy be considered “elective” in patients with stage 2 chronic kidney disease? A comparative analysis of functional and survival outcomes after r...
Zachary Hamilton, Umberto Capitanio, Brian R. Lane, Alessandro Larcher, Kendrick Yim, Sumi Dey, Brittney Cotta, Margaret Meagher, Samer Kirmiz, Adam Bezinque, Ahmed El...> ;World Journal of Urology. 2019 Feb 1
A Festschrift in Honor of Edward M. Messing, MD, FACS.
Jean V. Joseph, R.A. Brasacchio, Chunkit Fung, Jay E. Reeder, Kevin Bylund, Deepak M. Sahasrabudhe, Shuyuan Yeh, Ahmed Ghazi, Patrick J. Fultz, Deborah J. Rubens, Guan...> ;Bladder cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2018 Oct 3
Partial nephrectomy for T1b and T2 renal masses: A subtle paradigm shift and a new synthesis.
Ithaar H. Derweesh, Stephen Ryan, Zachary Hamilton> ;Cancer. 2018 Oct 1
Outcomes of Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy for Clinical T2 Renal Tumors: A Multicenter Analysis (ROSULA Collaborative Group).
Riccardo Bertolo, Riccardo Autorino, Giuseppe Simone, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Juan Garisto, Andrea Minervini, Daniel Eun, Sisto Perdonà, James R. Porter, Koon Ho Rha, Alex...> ;European Urology. 2018 Aug 1
Retroperitoneal Robotic Partial Nephrectomy: Systematic Review and Cumulative Analysis of Comparative Outcomes.
Nicola Pavan, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Lance J. Hampton, Wesley M. White, James R. Porter, Benjamin Challacombe, Prokar Dasgupta, Riccardo Bertolo, Jihad H. Kaouk, Vincenzo...> ;Journal of Endourology. 2018 Jul 1
Can multiphase CT scan distinguish between papillary renal cell carcinoma type 1 and type 2
Ahmet Bindayi, Michelle L. McDonald, Alp Tuna Beksac, Gerant Rivera-Sanfeliz, Ahmed Shabaik, Fiona Hughes, Lejla Aganovic, Donna E. Hansel, Ithaar H. Derweesh> ;Turkish journal of urology. 2018 Jul 1
Utilization and quality outcomes of cT1a, cT1b and cT2a partial nephrectomy: analysis of the national cancer database
Katherine E. Fero, Zachary Hamilton, Ahmet Bindayi, James D. Murphy, Ithaar H. Derweesh> ;BJUI. 2018 Apr 1
Predictors of Long-Term Survival after Renal Cancer Surgery
Joseph Zabell, Sevag Demirjian, Brian R. Lane, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Sudhir Isharwal, Chalairat Suk-Ouichai, Jitao Wu, Diego Aguilar Palacios, Steven C. Campbell> ;The Journal of Urology. 2018 Feb 1
Minimally invasive adrenal surgery: virtue or vice?
Jared S. Winoker, David Ahlborn, Olamide Omidele, Gustavo Fernandez-Ranvier, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Reza Mehrazin> ;Future Oncology. 2018 Jan 18
Analysis of survival for patients with chronic kidney disease primarily related to renal cancer surgery
Jitao Wu, Chalairat Suk-Ouichai, Wen Dong, Elvis Caraballo Antonio, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Brian R. Lane, Sevag Demirjian, Jianbo Li, Steven C. Campbell> ;BJUI. 2018 Jan 1
Neoadjuvant therapy for localized and locally advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Ahmet Bindayi, Zachary Hamilton, Michelle L. McDonald, Kendrick Yim, Frederick Millard, Rana R. McKay, Steven C. Campbell, Brian I. Rini, Ithaar H. Derweesh> ;Urologic Oncology-seminars and Original Investigations. 2018 Jan 1
Analysis of T1 Bladder Cancer on Biopsy and Transurethral Resection Specimens: Comparison and Ranking of T1 Quantification Approaches to Predict Progression to Muscula...
Mariah Z. Leivo, Debashis Sahoo, Zachary Hamilton, Leili Mirsadraei, Ahmed Shabaik, J.K. Parsons, Andrew Karim Kader, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Christopher J. Kane, Donna E....> ;The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2017 Oct 1
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