Claus Roehrborn, MD

Professor & Chairman
Endowed Title: S.T. Harris Family Chair in Medical Science, in Honor of John D. McConnell, M.D.
E.E. Fogelson and Greer Garson Fogelson Distinguished Chair in Urology
Urology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-2941
Office Fax: 214-648-4789

claus.roehrborn@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

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.

Education

ResidencyUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Surgery Urological (1991)
FellowshipUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Surgery Urological (1991)
ResidencyArmy Hospital, Surgery Urological (1986)
InternshipArmy Hospital, Surgery Urological (1982)
Medical SchoolJustus-Liebig-University Giessen (1980)

Research Interests

Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Outcomes research
Prostate cancer
Tumor markers
Urological Ultrasound

Publications

Featured
Effect of 1 mg/day finasteride on concentrations of serum prostate-specific antigen in men with androgenic alopecia: a randomised controlled trial

D’Amico AV, Roehrborn CG , Lancet Oncol , 2007; (8):21-25

Featured
Use of combined apoptosis biomarkers for prediction of bladder cancer recurrence and mortality after radical syctectomy

Jose A. Karam, Yair Lotan, Pierre I. Karakiewicz, Raheela Ashfaq, Arthur I. Sagalowsky, Claus G. Roehrborn, Shahrokh F. Shariat , The Lancet , 2007; (8):128-136

Featured
Tolterodine and tamsulosin for treatment of men with lower urinary tract symtpoms and overactive bladder, a randomized controlled trial

Kaplan SA, Roehrborn CG, Rovner EDs, Carlsson M, Bavendam T, Guan Z , JAMA , 2006; (296(19)):2319-2328

Featured
Salvage radiotherapy for recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy

Andrew J. Stephenson, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Michael J. Zelefsky, Michael W. Kattan, E. Brian Butler, Bin S. Teh, Eric A. Klein, Patrick A. Kupelian, Claus G. Roehrborn, David A. Pistenmaa, Heather D. Pacholke, Stanley L. Liauw, Matthew S. Katz, Steven Leibel, Peter T. Scardino and Kevin M. Slawin , American Medical Association (Reprinted JAMA) , 2004; :1325-1332

Featured
The long-term effect of doxazosin finasteride, and combination therapy on the clinical progression of benign prostatic hyperplasia

John D. McConnell, Claus G. Roehrborn, Oliver M. Bautista, Gerald L. Andriole, Jr., et al , New England Journal of Medicine , 2003; (349):2387-2389

Caveolin-1 overexpression is associated with aggressive prostate cancer recurrence

Karam JA, Lotan Y, Roehborn CG, Ashfaq R, Karakiewicz PI, Shariat SF , Prostate , 2007; (67):614-622

Predicting the outcome of salvage radiation therapy for recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy

Stephenson AJ, Scardino PT, Kattan MW, Pisansky TM, Slawin KM, Klein EA, Anscher MS, Michalski JM, Sandler HM, Lin DW, Forman JD, Zelefsky MJ, Kestin LL, Roehrborn CG, Catton CN, DeWeese TL, Liauw SL, Valicenti RK, Kuban DA, Pollack A , J Clin Oncol , 2007; (25):2035-2041

The effect of dutasteride on the peripheral and transition zones of the prostate and the value of the transition zone index in predicting treatment response

Leonard S. Marks, Claus G. Roehrborn, Eric Wolford and Timothy Wilson , Journal of Urology , 2007; (177(4)):1408-1413

Prostate-specific antigen improves the ability of clinical stage and biopsy gleason sum to predict the pathologic stage at radical prostatectomy in the new millenium

Chun FK, Briganti A, Salonia A, Rigatti P, Saad F, Huland H, Montorsi F, Graefen M, Karakiewicz PI , European Urology , 2007;

Quantifying the impact of prostate volumes, number of biopsy cores and 5alpha-reductase inhibitor therapy on the probability of prostate cancer detection using mathematical modeling

Serfling R, Shulman M, Thompson GL, Xiao Z, Benaim E, Roehrborn CG, Rittmaster R , J Urol , 2007; (177):2352-2356

Honors/Awards

SIU Guest Lecture

Invited Guest Lecturer at the German Urological Meeting to give the SIU Guest Lecture (2002)

Special Recognition AUA Guidelines

For extraordinary contributions to the AUA Guidelines Effort (1997)

America’s Top Urologist 2007-2009

Consumer Research Council of America

Dallas Best Doctor 2004 - 2009

Selected by peers in 2004 - 2009

Invited Visiting Professor and Lecturer

Multiple Urological Organizations in over 30 countries

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Medical Association

American Urological Association (AUA)

European Association of Urology (EAU)

Societe Internationale Urologique (SIU)

South Central Section of the American Urological Association (SCS AUA)