Yair Lotan, MD

Associate Professor
Endowed Title: Helen J. and Robert S. Strauss Professorship in Urology
Urology

Contact Information

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

Office Phone: 214-648-0389

yair.lotan@utsouthwestern.edu

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

Biography

EDUCATION: University of Texas at Austin, B. A. in Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas: M. D., Urology Residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Lotan is a member of the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center and his practice focuses on endourology and pelvic laparoscopy. During his training he has focused his research in the area of laparoscopy and decision analysis in a variety of urologic disorders. He works in the area of minimally invasive surgery and decision analysis in urology.

Education

ResidencyUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2003)
ResidencyUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1999)
InternshipUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1998)
Medical SchoolBaylor College of Medicine (1997)

Research Interests

Biomarker research
Decision analysis and outcomes research
Robotic and laparoscopic surgery
Urologic oncology

Publications

Featured
Survivin as a prognostic marker for urothelial carcinoma of the bladdre: a multicenter external validation study

Shariat SF, Karakiewicz PI, Godoy G, Karam JA, Ashfaq R, Fradet Y, Isbarn H, Montorsi F, Jeldres C. Bastian PJ, Nielsen ME, Muller SC, Sagalowsky AI, Lotan Y , Clin Cancer Res , November 2010; (15(22)):7012-19

Featured
Bladder Cancer Screening in a High Risk Asymptomatic Population Using a Point of Care Urine Based Protein Tumor Marker

Lotan Y, Elias K, Svatek RS, Bagrodia A, Nuss G, Moran B, Sagalowsky AI, , J Urol , May 2009;

Featured
Implications of the prostate cancer prevention trial: a decision analysis model of survival outcomes

Lotan Y, Cadeddu JA, Lee JJ, Roehrborn CG, Lippman SM , J Clin Oncol. , March 2005; (20;23(9)):1911-20

Featured
Prospective Evaluation of the clinical usefulness of reflex fluorescence in situ hybridization assay in patients with atypical cytology for the detection of urothelial cardinoma of the bladder

Lotan Y, Bensalah K, Ruddell T, Shariat SF, Sagalowsky AI, Ashfaq R , J Urol , June 2008; (179(6)):2164-9

Featured
Lymphovascular Invasion is Independently Associated with Overall Survival, Cause-Specific Survival, and Locan and Distant Recurrence in Patients with Negative Lymph Nodes at Radical Cystectomy

Lotan Y, Gupta A, Shariat SF, Palapattu GS, Vazina A, Karakiewicz PI, Bastian PJ, Rogers CG, Amiel G, Perotte P, Schoenberg MP, Lerner SP, Sagalowsky AI , J Clin Oncol. , August 2005; (August 22)

Survivin as a prognostic marker for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: a multicenter external validation study

Shariat SF, Karakiewicz PI, Godoy G, Karam JA, Ashfaq R, Fradet Y, Isbarn H, Montorsi F, Jeldres C, Bastian PJ, Nielsen ME, Muller SC, Sagalowsky AI, Lotan Y , Clin Cancer Res , November 2009; (15(22)):7012-19

Association of Angiogenesis Related Markers With Bladder Cancer Outcomes and Other Molecular Markers

Shariat SF, Youssef RF, Gupta A, Chade DC, Karakiewicz PI, Isbarn H, Jeldres C. Sagalowsky AI, Ashfaq R, Lotan Y , J Urol , May 2010; (183(5)):1744-50

BCAN Think Tank session 2: Molecular detection of bladder cancer: the path to progress

Robinson VL, Porter M, Messing E, Fradet Y, Kamat AM, Lotan Y , Urol Oncol , May 2010; (28(3): 334-7):334-7

The influence of body mass index on the cost of radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer

Bolenz C, Gupta A, Hotze T, Ho R, Cadeddu JA, Roehrborn CG, Lotan Y , BJU Int , March 2010; (23)

Role of biomarkers to predict outcomes and response to therapy

Lotan Y , Urol Oncol , January 2010; (28(1)):97-101

Honors/Awards

Merit Award

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Cancer Foundation at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (2009)

Best Poster

Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Extraordinary Opportunities for Discovery National Cancer Institute (2008)

Who’s Who in America

(2008)

Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award

Recognition of Research in Prostate Cancer (2003)

The Pfizer Scholars in Urology Award

Urology Pathology Course (2002)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Association for Cancer Research

American Urologic Association

National Urologic Ultrasound Faculty

R.O.C.K. Society

Society of Urologic Oncology/Society of Endourology