Annual Breakfast Meeting

Featured Speakers

Women Chairs in Urology (l-r)
Dr. Une Lee, Virginia Mason; Dr. Polina Reyblat, Kaiser Permanente; Dr. Kathleen Kobashi, Houston Methodist; Dr. Linda Shortliffe (retired), Stanford; Dr. Cheryl Lee, Ohio State University; Dr. Larissa Rodriguez, Weill Cornell

Not pictured: Dr. Kirsten Greene, University of Virginia; Dr. Martha Terris, Augusta University; Dr. Elia Skinner, Stanford

• 2023
• Annette Fenner, MBBS, PhD
  Nature Reviews Urology
  The Importance of Authenticity
• 2023
• Todd M. Morgan, MD
  University of Michigan Medical Center
  Male Allyship in Urology: Power, Privilege, and Purpose
• 2022
• No featured speaker
• 2021
• No featured speaker
• 2020
• No featured speaker
• 2019
• Cheryl T. Lee, MD
  The Ohio State University
  Keynote Address: Advances in Bladder Cancer: Recent Progress Shaping Clinical Care
• 2018
• Kathleen T. O’Loughlin, DMD, MPH
  American Dental Association
  Achieving Success by Closing the Gaps (Between Male and Female Physicians)
• 2017
• Kathleen Cooney, MD
  Professor and Chair of Department of Internal Medicine
  University of Utah School of Medicine
  Women in Urology: Changing the Statistics
• 2016
• Judy Rosenbloom
  President
  JR Associates, Inc.
  Shifting Reimbursement: One Size Does Not Fit All
• 2015
• Marie A. Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH
  Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  Tulane University , New Orleans, LA
  Achieving Leadership Roles
• 2014
• Wayne M. Sotile, PhD
  Founder
  Center for Physician Resilience
  Resilient Physician Leadership
• 2013
• Roberta E. Gebhard, DO
  Co-Chair
  American Medical Womens Association Gender Equity Task Force
  Gender Equity in Medicine and Negotiation Skills for Women Physicians
• 2012
• Margit Fisch, MD
  Director and Chair Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology
  University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  The Role of Female Urologists in Europe
• 2011
• David F. Penson, MD, MPH
  Professor of Urologic Surgery
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Improving the Quality of Surgical Care: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
• 2010
• Anthony J. Thomas, Jr., MD
  Staff, Department of Bioethics
  Cleveland Clinic, JJ 60
  Virtue Ethics and the Healing [Female] Physician
• 2009
• Elspeth M. MacDougall, MD
  University of California
  Irvine Medical Center
  Simulation: The New Frontier of Surgical Education
• 2008
• John M. House, MD, PA
  Urology Associates of North Texas
  Large Urology Group Practices and Why Urologists (Who Happen to be Women) Should Know about Them
• 2007
• Catherine Rhu deVries, MD
  Associate Professor of Surgery and Urology
  University of Utah
  Back to the Future: High Tech/Low Tech Surgery in Developing Countries
• 2006
• Julie Freischlag, MD
  The William Stewart Halsted Professor Chair, Department of Surgery
  The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  Surgeon-in-Chief
  Bloom Where You’re Planted
• 2005
• Doris A. Stoll, PhD
  Executive Director
  RRC Urology
  Challenges in Resident Education, Now and in the Next Decade
• 2004
• Neil Baum, MD
  Making Partnership Work
• 2003
• Mary O. Sotile, MA, and Wayne M. Sotile, PhD
  Truth, Power, and Wisdom: The Secrets of Resilient Women in Physicians
• 2002
• Lynne Levesque
  Breakthrough Creativity: Beyond Creative Juggling
• 2001
• George Conomikes
  Successful Practice Management Tips
• 2000
• Pat Heim, PhD
  Hardball for Women
• 1999
• Phyllis Greenberger
  Executive Director
  Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health
• 1998
• Nancy Dickey, MD
  President-Elect
  American Medical Association (AMA)