Claus G. Roehrborn, MD, was born and raised in West Germany. After attending Medical School in Giessen, Germany, he began his residency in surgery and urology at the German Army Hospital in Giessen. In 1984 he came to Dallas, Texas, and continued his urology residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. After finishing his residency in 1989 he won an AFUD Scholarship and worked for two years with Dr. Jean Wilson in the field of androgen regulation of prostate development and growth. In 1992 he joined the urology faculty at UT Southwestern, where he currently is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology. Dr Roehrborn’s practice focuses on the treatment of prostate cancer and BPH. He has performed nearly 400 daVinci robotic prostatectomies for prostate cancer and large numbers of laser prostatectomies for BPH. His research interests are in the areas of benign and malignant prostate diseases, including medical and minimally invasive therapies for BPH, and markers for prostate cancer. In addition, he has a background in urological ultrasound and has chaired numerous postgraduate courses and lectured on a variety of topics in ultrasound imaging of the urinary tract. His basic, translational and clinical research has yielded over 220 peer-reviewed publications, over 30 book chapters and numerous other contributions to the literature. Aside from being invited to give lectures all over the world, he has chaired or participated in many postgraduate courses and has been visiting professor at leading urological institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. Dr. Roehrborn has been the lead researcher for the 1994 AHCPR BPH Guidelines, and has been involved in the American Urological Association Guidelines efforts from their inception. He has chaired committees at the WHO-ICUD sponsored Consensus Conferences on BPH from 1994 throug 2005, and is co-chairman of the AUA BPH Guidelines Committee charged with an update of the AHCPR Guidelines from 1994. Dr. Roehrborn is on the editorial board of many peer-reviewed journals, associate editor of Urology, and co-editor of the comprehensive and authoritative Textbook of BPH. He serves as reviewer for nearly all peer-reviewed journals in the field of urology. At present, Dr. Roehrborn continues to be involved in virtually all aspects of BPH research as well as translational and clinical research in prostatitis and prostate cancer.
