Brian Matlaga, MD

Professional Titles

• Director, The Stephens Center for Stone Disease
• Executive Vice Chair, James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Urology

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Brady Urological Institute
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
• Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery

Clinical Trial Keywords

Kidney Stones

Clinical Trials Summary

Trial Comparing Three Different Devices for Kidney Stone Removal During Percutaneous Surgery

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Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• This webcast highlights the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute and examines mens issues such as prostate cancer, BPH, stone disease and erectile dysfunction.Men's Health - What Every Man Needs to Know

Research Interests

Endourology, Epidemiology of stone formation, Kidney stones, Metabolic stone disease, Minimally invasive surgical techniques, Pathophysiology of stone formation, Urinary calculi, Urinary stone disease, Urology

Research Summary

Dr. Matlaga’s research aims to better understand the pathophysiology and epidemiology of urinary stones and to advance the use of minimally invasive surgical techniques in treating them.

PubMed - Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=Search&term=MATLAGA%20BR

Selected Publications

• Knoepp LR, Semins MJ, Wright EJ, Steele K, Shore AD, Clark JM, Makary MA, Matlaga BR, Chen CC. “Does bariatric surgery affect urinary incontinence?” Urology. 2013 Sep;82(3):547-51. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2013.04.042. Epub 2013 Jul 9.

• Matlaga BR, Meckley LM, Kim M, Byrne TW. “Management Patterns of Medicare Patients Undergoing Treatment for Upper Urinary Tract Calculi.” J Endourol. 2013 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print]

• Matlaga BR. “Editorial Comment on de la Rosette et al.” J Endourol. 2013 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.

• Semins MJ, Matlaga BR. “Kidney stones and pregnancy.” Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2013 May;20(3):260-4. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2013.01.009. Review.

• Semins MJ, Matlaga BR. “Management of urolithiasis in pregnancy.” Int J Womens Health. 2013 Sep 30;5:599-604. eCollection 2013. Review.

Honors

• Best Poster Award, 105th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association, 1/1/10
• Best Poster Award, 104th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association, 1/1/09
• Resident Teaching Award, the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, 1/1/08
• Best Overall Paper Award, 24th Annual World Congress of Endourology, 1/1/06
• Outstanding Graduate Scholar, American Urological Association Foundation Research Scholar Program, 1/1/06
• Outstanding Research Scholar, American Foundation for Urologic Disease, 1/1/04
• Outstanding Resident Surgeon Award, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, 1/1/04
• Gerald P. Murphy Scholar, Praecis Pharmaceuticals/American Urological Association, 1/1/03
• Pfizer Scholars in Urology Award, 1/1/03
• Second Place Award ("Percutaneous water-cooled radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma"), 3rd Annual North Carolina Urology Residents Seminar, 1/1/03
• Gerald P. Murphy Scholar, Praecis Pharmaceuticals/American Urological Association, 1/1/02
• Second Place Award ("A novel technique of local anesthesia for extensive prostate biopsy"), 2nd Annual North Carolina Urology Residents Seminar, 1/1/02
• Second Place Award ("Epithelioid leiomyoma"), 1st Annual North Carolina Urology Residents Seminar, 1/1/01

Graduate Program Affiliations

• Minimally Invasive and Endourology Fellowship

Memberships

• American Urological Association
• American Urological Association, Mid-Atlantic Section
• Endourological Society
• Society of Engineering and Urology