Faculty of Ottawa Urology Department at the Ottawa Hospital On this page you will find the entire Faculty of Ottawa Urology. Because Ottawa Urology serves 3 individual campuses of the Ottawa Hospital, to view only those faculty members at a particlular campus, please select from the following: Entire Faculty (You are here) Faculty at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - CHEO Faculty at OH Civic Campus Faculty at OH General Campus Entire Faculty   Ronald G. Gerridzen MD, FRCSC, FACS Civic Campus Ronald G. Gerridzen, MD, FRCSC, FACS, completed his urology training at the University of Ottawa in 1983, followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Urodynamics, Neurourology & Incontinence at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto. Following a short period on staff at Sunnybrook, Dr. Gerridzen returned to the Ottawa Civic Hospital to set up the Regional Urodynamics laboratory. Dr. Gerridzen is a Full Professor in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa and an active attending staff urologist at The Ottawa Hospital – Civic Campus. He is a consulting urologist at the Ottawa Hospital – General Campus, The Rehabilitation Centre and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He has made over 150 presentations and has 45 publications. Dr. Gerridzen has been Executive Secretary of The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Examination Board in Urology, a subsequent member of the Royal College Board of Examiners, and Local Arrangements Chairman for the 1995 50th anniversary meeting of the Canadian Urological Association (CUA) in Ottawa. He was President of the Canadian Urodynamics Professionals from 1989 – 1990. Dr. Gerridzen was Treasurer of the Canadian Urological Association from 1996 - 2001, and served as President of the Canadian Urological Association in 2004 – 2005. He was Program Director for the Urology Training Program from July 1997 until June 2004, and is currently Chairman of the Division of Urology at the University of Ottawa, and Chief of the Division of Urology at The Ottawa Hospital.   John P. Collins MD, FRCSC, FACS Civic Campus John Collins completed his urology training at the University of Toronto, followed by a Fellowship in bladder cancer immunobiology in London, England under the tutelage of Dr. Av Mitcheson. Dr. Collins is Associate Professor of Surgery and was Chairman of the Division of Urology at the University of Ottawa and Chief of the Division of Urology at The Ottawa Hospital from 1991 until June 30, 2004. He has served as Urology Program Director from 1991 - 1997, Executive Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Urology Examination Board, President of the Canadian Andrology Society, Secretary of the Canadian Urological Association (CUA) and subsequently President of the CUA in 1995. His current clinical and research focus is in the areas of erectile dysfunction, male factor infertility and androgen deficiency in the aging male.   Christopher G. L. Morash MD, FRCSC Civic Campus Christopher Morash completed his Urology Residency at Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1993. He then completed the course work in the Masters of Clinical Epidemiology program at The University of Ottawa in 1994. He went on to a Clinical Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 1995. He has been on staff at The Ottawa Hospital since that time. Dr. Morash is the Head, Urologic Oncology, Division of Surgical Oncology, Ottawa Regional Cancer Center. He is the Medical Director of the planned Ottawa Prostate Cancer Assessment Center. He is Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Ottawa. He serves on the Executive of the Canadian Urologic Oncology Group (CUOG) as well as The Executive Committee of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group - Genitourinary Site. He is Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the CUA Annual Meeting in Ottawa in 2005. His practice is devoted exclusively to Urologic Oncology. His current research focus is prostate cancer; both clinical outcomes research as well as molecular markers of progression.   Ilias Cagiannos MD, FRCSC Civic Campus Dr. Cagiannos is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Ottawa and an attending urologist at the Ottawa Hospital. His practice is specifically in urologic surgical oncology. He received his medical degree from the University of Toronto and underwent his formal urology training at the University of Ottawa. Subsequently he completed a clinical and research fellowship in urologic oncology at the prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He has been on staff at the Ottawa Hospital since 2002. His administrative duties include being director of resident research for the division of urology, as well as site director of undergraduate medical education at the Civic Campus. He will serve as the director of the urologic oncology fellowship when it begins formally in 2008. He is actively involved in the treatment of all genitourinary cancers with particular interests in neobladder reconstruction following bladder removal, sexual function preservation with nerve sparing radical prostatectomy, renal function preservation in kidney cancer with partial nephrectomy as well as the application of minimally invasive surgery in urologic oncology. His research interests are in prostate cancer outcomes as well as in bladder and kidney cancer.   Filemon DeJesus MD, FRCSC Civic Campus Filemon DeJesus completed his urology training at the University of Ottawa, and then went into community clinical practice at the Grace Hospital in Ottawa. With hospital restructuring in 2000, Dr. DeJesus joined the urology staff at the Ottawa Hospital and is active in both the Civic and Riverside campuses. His practice is general urology.   Eric Saltel M.D. FRCSC Civic Campus   Anthony Bella M.D. FRCSC Civic Campus Dr Bella is an Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Clinical interests include erectile dysfunction, Peyronie’s disease, and genitourinary prosthetics. Dr Bella is also an Associate Scientist (Neuroscience) at the Ottawa Health Research Institute and the Director of Urologic Basic Science Research, with a primary focus on the molecular mechanisms of cavernous nerve response to injury and the identification of novel treatments for neurogenic ED. Dr Bella previously completed a combined research and clinical fellowship under Dr Tom F. Lue at the University of California San Francisco; he was the first American Foundation for Urologic Disease Robert J. Krane Scholar, received a California Urology Foundation Award, and was named the American Urologic Association Foundation Outstanding Graduate Scholar while at UCSF. He was also named a Royal College of Physicans and Surgeons Detweiler Traveling Scholar. Prior to this, Dr Bella completed his residency training at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has coauthored more than fifty peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters to date and has been awarded several national and international prizes for basic and clinical research. Dr Bella is on the editorial board of “Aging Health” and reviewer for several journals; he is also an active member of several societies including the Canadian Urological Association, American Urological Association, Sexual Medicine Society of North America and Society for Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons. Dr Bella is currently a Canadian Urological Association Scholar, and holds peer-reviewed grants from the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada, Canadian Male Sexual Health Council, and the Northeastern Section of the American Urological Association.   Stuart J. Oake MD, FRCSC General Campus Stuart Oake completed his urological training at the University of Ottawa in 1993, preceded by one year of General Surgical training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Oake is Site Chief of Urology at the General and Riverside Campuses of the Ottawa Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Ottawa. He attained American Board of Urology certification as a Diplomate in 1998. His clinical focus includes uro-oncology and erectile dysfunction, along with the development of minimally invasive urological surgery at the Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Oake is Program Director for the University of Ottawa Urology Training Program since July 2004.   James D. Watterson MD, FRCSC General Campus James Watterson completed his urology training at the University of Ottawa in 2000, followed by a 2 year clinical and research fellowship in Endourology in London, Ontario at the University of Western Ontario under the tutelage of Dr. John Denstedt. Dr. Watterson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa and is currently Undergraduate Medical Director for the Division of Urology. Dr. Watterson is Medical Director of the Ottawa Lithotripsy and Stone Program. He is presently active in developing the minimally invasive urological program at The Ottawa Hospital. Curent areas of expertise include percutaneous stone surgery; ureteroscopic stone and upper urinary tract endoscopic surgery; and laparoscopic surgery, including laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, laparoscopic adrenalectomy, and laparoscopic pyeloplasty techniques. His current clinical and research focus is in the areas of lithotripsy and minimally invasive urology, including endourology and laparoscopy.   John E. Mahoney BSc, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS General Campus John Mahoney completed his urology training at the University of Toronto, followed by a Masters program in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University. While at McMaster he was a Terry Fox fellow in medical oncology. He was on staff at the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto before coming to Ottawa where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and attending urologist at the Ottawa Hospital - General Campus. In 2000, Dr. Mahoney spent a 3-month sabbatical in transplantation at Ohio State University. He is currently Chairman of the urology section of the Ontario Medical Association, and President of the Canadian Academy of Urological Surgeons. His clinical and research interests are in the areas of BPH, prostate cancer prevention, stone disease, endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery, renal transplantation and health technology assessment.   Brian Blew M.D. FRCSC General Campus For more information please refer to www.mydoctor.ca/drbblew   Michael P. Leonard MD, FRCSC, FAAP Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Michael Leonard completed his urology training at Queen's University. He then undertook at two-year pediatric urology fellowship (1-year clinical, 1-year research) under the tutelage of Drs. Robert D. Jeffs and Donald Coffey at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore USA. He was the recipient of the CUA Scholarship Award for research while a faculty member at the University of Manitoba 1990-1992. Dr. Leonard is a Professor and Chief of Pediatric Urology at CHEO / University of Ottawa, and an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Queen's University. He served as Director of Resident Research for the Division of Urology from 2000-2003. He is currently the Chief of Staff at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Chief Examiner with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Examination Committee for Urology. He has served as president of the Pediatric Urologists of Canada. His clinical and research focus is on all aspects of Pediatric Urology.   John Grant Pike MD, FRCSC Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario John Pike completed his urology training at Queen's University in 1989, followed by a fellowship in pediatric urology at McGill University under the tutelage of Drs. George Kiruluta and Yves Homsy from 1989-1991. Dr. Pike practiced adult and pediatric urology from 1991 to 2000 at the Janeway Child Health Centre and Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland. Presently Dr. Pike is on active staff at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and The Ottawa Hospital and is Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Ottawa and Associate Professor of Urology (Adjunct), Queen's University. His current clinical and research focus is in the areas of computer applications to pediatric urology and treatment of the pediatric neurogenic bladder.   Luis Guerra MD MSc Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Dr. Guerra is an assistant professor of surgery, Division of urology and a pediatric urologist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He is orginally from Brazil. There he completed medical school at the Federal University of Permanbuco and his residency training in general surgery and urology at the University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto and Roberto Rocha Brito Foundation respectively. Dr. Guerra has a fellowship in Pediatric Urology from the Children's Hosptial of Eastern Ontario and a Master's of Cinical Epidemiology from the University of Ottawa Ontario. His areas of interest include neurogenic bladder and neurourology, laparoscopy, endourology and minimally invasive surgery. He is actively involved in clinical epidemiology including systematic reviews and clinical trials.