Interview: Urologic cancers: where are we now and where is the field going?

Abstract

Badrinath R Konety is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology and holds the Dougherty Family Chair in Uro-Oncology, as well as being the Director of the Institute for Prostate and Urologic Cancers and Associate Director for Clinical Affairs of the Masonic Cancer Center, at the University of Minnesota (MN, USA). Konety received his undergraduate training in science at St Joseph’s College, Bangalore University in India. He earned his MBBS (MD equivalent) at the MS Ramaiah Medical College of Bangalore University. Konety was a research fellow with the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Urology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center prior to completing his medical training at the University of Pittsburgh (PA, USA) with residencies in general surgery and urology. Following his residency training, Konety was an AFUD Research Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Urology and Cancer Institute, concurrently studying business and receiving a MBA from the University of P...