| UROLOGY MAIN SITE | GEN. ADULT UROLOGY | UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY | MALE UROLOGY | TRANSPLANT PROGRAM | |
| PELVIC MEDICINE, INCONTINENCE & RECONST. SURGERY | PEDIATRIC UROLOGY | MIN. INVASIVE SURGERY | |||
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Jacob Rajfer, MD
a Curriculum Vitae
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| Educational Background | |
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| Undergraduate: | B.S., University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois |
| Medical School: | M.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois |
| Residency: | Internship, LA County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Resident in Surgery, St. Josephs Hospital, Denver, Colorado, Senior Assistant Resident in Urology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland Chief Resident in Urology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Board Certifications & Fellowships: |
Research Fellow in Urology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Board Certified, American Board of Urology |
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| Male infertility, sexual dysfunction, prostate disease |
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| American Fertility Society Kidney Foundation of Southern California Society for the Study of Reproduction Los Angeles Urological Society Southern California Transplant Society Society of University Urologists Pacific Coast Fertility Society Western Section, American Urological Association, Inc. UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center American College of Surgeons - Fellow American Urological Association American Society of Andrology Urologic Society for Transplantation and Vascular Surgery California Urological Society Western Association of Transplant Surgeons The Endocrine Society American Society of Transplant Surgeons Society for the Study of Impotence Society of Pediatric Urology Western Urologic Forum American Academy of Pediatric |
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| 1978-80 Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 1980-83 Assistant Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 1983-89 Associate Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 1989-present Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California |
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| Dr. Rajfer has made UCLA one of the top basic science research centers in the field of impotence. It was these research activities that led to the discovery at UCLA of what chemicals cause an erection and explained in detail how drugs like Viagra work in helping men with impotence. During Dr. Rajfer's tenure as Chief of Urology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, many clinical aspects of Urology including pediatrics, renal transplantation, oncology and andrology have been expanded and a number of important discoveries have been made. |
| Awards & Honors | |
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| 1977 3rd Prize, Laboratory Research, Grayson Carroll Essay, American Urological Association, Chicago, Illinois 1978 1st Prize, Laboratory Research, Grayson Carroll Essay, American Urological Association, Chicago, Illinois 1983 2nd Prize, Joseph F. McCarthy Essay, Western Section, American Urological Association, Vancouver, B.C. 1984 1st Prize, Joseph F. McCarthy Essay, Western Section, American Urological Association, Reno, NV. 1985 1st Prize, Joseph F. McCarthy Essay, Western Section, American Urological Association, Anaheim, CA 1986 Honorable Mention, Research Prize, Section on Urology, American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, D.C. 1992-01 Best Doctors in America 1995 President, Los Angeles Urological Society 1996 Certificate of Achievement Award, AUA, Orlando, Fl. 1996 Honorary Fellowship, American Academy of Pediatrics 2001 America’s Top Doctors |
| Personal | |
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| Philosophy of Care: | I believe you need to pay attention to your patient. I like to develop a personal rapport. When you demonstrate concern, your patient will relate to you, and you to the patient. |
| Why I entered Medicine: | I had not yet picked which specialty I wanted to go into, until I met a very charismatic professor who was a urologist. I'm sure that teacher inspired many other medical students to select urology. |
Additional Information |
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1. AMELIORATION OF HUMAN ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION BY TREATMENT WITH iNOS, INDUCERS OF iNOS OR iNOS cDNA. January 14, l997.
2. NMDA RECEPTOR BLOCKERS IN THE THERAPY OF UROGENITAL DISEASE April 21, 2000.
BOOK REVIEWS
1. "Traumatic injuries of the Genitourinary System" by McDougal & Persky. Critical Care
Medicine. 9:562, 1981.
2. "Percutaneous Renal Surgery" by Wickham and Miller. N. Eng. J. Med. 310: 1062,
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3. "Prostate Cancer" by Wm. J. Catalona. N. Engl. J. Med. 312:1201, 1985.
4. "Contemporary Management of Impotence and Infertility" by Tanagho, Lue, and
5. "Impotence: diagnosis and management of male erectile dysfunction" by Kirby
Selected Bibliography:
1 von Keitz A, Rajfer J, Segal S, Murphy A, Denne J, Costigan T, Lockhart D, Beasley CM Jr and Emmick JT. A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, crossover study to evaluate patient preference between tadalafil and sildenafil. Eur Urol 45:499-507, 2004.
2. Ferrini MG, Davila HH, Valente EA, Gonzalez-
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4. Jalkut M, Gonzalez-Cadavid N and Rajfer J. New discoveries in the basic science understanding of Peyronie’s disease. Curr Urol Rep 5:478-84, 2004.
5. Qian A, Meals RA, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-
6. Rajfer J. Endothelial dysfunction as a cause of erectile dysfunction – misdiagnosis or misnomer? Urology 64:193-4, 2004.
7. Davila HH, Magee TR, Vernet D, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-
8. Gonzalez-Cadavid NF and Rajfer J. Therapy of erectile dysfunction: potential future treatments. Endocrine 23:167-76, 2004.
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10. Davila, HH, Rajfer J and
11. Gore JL, Swerdloff RS and Rajfer J. Androgen deficiency in the etiology and treatment of erectile dysfunction. Urol Clin North Am 32:457-468, 2005.
12. Singer JS, Ettenger RB, Gore JL, Gritsch A, Rajfer J, Rosenthal JT, Schulam P. Laparoscopic versus open renal procurement for pediatric recipients of living donor renal transplantation. Am J Transplant 5:2514-20, 2005.
13. Vernet D, Nolazco-Gomez G, Cantini L, Magee TR, Qian A, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-Cadavid. Evidence that osteogenic progenitor cells in the human tunica albuginea may originate from stem cells: implications for Peyronie’s disease. Biol Reprod 73:1199-1210, 2005.
14. Davila HH, Magee TR, Zuniga F, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-
15. Gonzalez-Cadavid NF and Rajfer J. Mechanisms of disease: new insights into the cellular and molecular pathology of Peyronie’s disease. Nat Clin Pract Urol 2:291-7, 2005.
16. Rajfer J, Gore J, Kaufman J and Gonzalez-
17. Vernet D, Magee TR, Qian A, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-
18. Ferrini MF, Kovanecz I, Nolazco G, Rajfer J and
19. Kovanecz I, Ferrini MG, VernetD, Nolazco G, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-
20. Magee TR, Artaza JN, Ferrini MF, Vernet D, Zuniga FI, Cantini L, Reisz-Prrszasz S, Rajfer J and Gonzalez-Cadavid NF. Myostatin short interfering hairpin RNA gene transfer increases skeletal muscle mass. J Gene Med 8:1171-81, 2006
21. Rajfer J. Is TESA passe? J. Androl, 27:491, 2006.
22. Shabsigh R, Rajfer J,
23. Ferrini MF, Davila HH, Kovanecz I, Sanchez S, Gonzalez-Cadavid NF and Rajfer J. Vardenafil prevents the fibrosis and loss of corporal smooth muscle following bilateral cavernosal nerve resection in the rat. Urology 68:429-435, 2006.
24. Rajfer J, Aliotta PJ, Steidle CP, Fitch WP, Zhao Y and Yu A. Tadalafil dosed once a day in men with erectile dysfunction: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study in the
