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Book Chapters

  • Kuan JK: Erectile Dysfunction, in Epocrates: Point of Care. London: BMJ.
  • Kuan JK, Wessells H: Post-Prostatectomy Urethral Strictures, in Brandes (ed): Urethral Reconstructive Surgery. Totowa: Humana Press, in press.
  • Kuan JK, Porter JR, Wessells H: Update on Imaging for Genitourinary Trauma, in Ball (ed): AUA Update Series, volume 25. Linthicum: Education and Research Inc., 2006.
  • Kuan JK, Routt ML, Wessells H: “Genitourinary and Pelvic Trauma”, in Mulholland MW, Lillemoe KD, Doherty GM, et al (eds): Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2006.
  • Kuan JK, Brock GB: Pharmacotherapy and External Devices, in Lue (ed): Atlas of Male Sexual Dysfunction. Philadelphia, Current Medicine LLC, 2004.

Honors and Awards

2007 AUA/Gyrus ACMI Prize Essay Contest, Clinical Research Category Anaheim, CA, USA, May 2007 “Renal injury mechanisms in motor vehicle collisions: analysis of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) dataset”

Canadian Urological Association Annual Meeting, Essay Contest, 1st Prize St John’s, NF, Canada, June 2002 “State-of-the-art endourological training using computer-based virtual reality simulation”

University of Western Ontario Urology Residents’ Research Day, 2nd Prize London, ON, Canada, May 2001 “Radical and partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma: post-operative surveillance for recurrent disease”

Peer Reviewed Journals

  • King SH, Miller J, Kuan JK. Intraperitoneal bladder rupture after abdominal liposuction. Plast Reconstr Surg 2008; 6: 228e-229e.
  • Sorensen MD, Long LO, Wessells HB, Kuan JK. Monckeberg’s Calciphylaxis with Necrosis of the Glans Penis – A Case Presentation. Hemodialysis International 2007; 11: 300-302.
  • Kuan JK, Kaufman R, Wright JL, Mock C, Nathens AB, Wessells H, Bulger E. Renal injury mechanisms in motor vehicle collisions: analysis of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) dataset. J Urol 2007; 178: pp 000-000.
  • Cox AR, Kuan JK, Razvi H. Emphysematous pyelonephritis: a case report and review of the literature. Can J Urol 2006; 13: 3039-43.
  • Kuan JK, Wright JL, Nathens AB, Rivara FP, Wessells H. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Organ Injury Scale for Kidney Injuries predicts nephrectomy, dialysis and death in patients with blunt injury and nephrectomy for penetrating injuries. J Trauma 2006; 60: 351-356.
  • Wright J, Kuan JK, Nathens A, Rivara F, Wessells H: Renal and Extrarenal Predictors Of Nephrectomy from the National Trauma Data Bank. J Urol 2006 175:970-5.
  • Cook A, Salle JL, Reid J, Chow KF, Kuan J, Razvi H, Farhat WA, Bagli DJ, Khoury AE. Prospective evaluation of remote, interactive videoconferencing to enhance urology resident education: the genitourinary teleteaching initiative. J Urol 2005; 174: 1958-60.
  • Stephenson AJ, Chetner MP, Rourke K, Gleave ME, Signaevsky M, Palmer B, Kuan JK, Brock GB, Tanguay S. Guidelines for the surveillance of localized renal cell carcinoma based on the patterns of relapse after nephrectomy. J Urol 2004; 172: 58-62.
  • Watterson JD, Beiko DT, Kuan JK, Denstedt JD. A randomized, prospective blinded study validating the acquisition of ureteroscopy skills using a computer based virtual reality endourological simulator. J Urol 2002; 168: 1928-1932.
  • Kuan JK, Brock GB. Selective phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibition using tadalafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2002; 11: 1615-1622.
  • Kuan JK, Brock GB. Salvaging the sildenafil non-responder: the role of locally delivered therapies. Sexual Dysfunction in Medicine 2001; 2: 39-43.

Select Presentations at Scientific Meetings

  • American Urological Association Meeting, Orlando, USA, May 2008

Broghammer JA, Kuan JK, Friedrich JB, Klein MB, Engrav LH, Wessells H. Cadaveric allograft skin: a temporizing biologic dressing in the treatment of complex genital skin deficiency American Urological Association,

  • Western Section, Scottsdale, USA, Nov 2007

Kempe K, Risk MC, Culp SH, Kuan JK, Wessells H. Decreased Renal Function in Traumatic Subcapsular Hematoma: A 4-Case Series with Lasix Renogram/GFR.

  • American Urological Association Meeting, Anaheim, USA, May 2007

Kuan JK, Kaufman R, Wright JL, Mock C, Nathens AB, Wessells H, Bulger E. Renal injury mechanisms in motor vehicle collisions: analysis of the Crash InjuryResearch and Engineering Network (CIREN) dataset.

Risk M, Kuan JK, Miller E, Wessells H. Comparison of Dorsal and Ventral Graft Placement on Outcomes Following Buccal Mucosa Onlay Reconstruction of Bulbar Urethral Strictures

  • American Urological Association Western Section Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, Aug 2005

Wright JL, Wessells H, Kuan JK, Kaufman R, Rivara FP, Mock C, Nathens AB. Correlation of renal injuries to vehicle contact points: findings from the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) Data. American Urological Association Meeting, San Antonio, USA, May 2005

Kuan JK, Wright JL, Nathens AB, Mack C, Rivara FP, Wessells H. Nationwide Validation of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Organ Injury Scale for Renal Trauma.

Wright JL, Kuan JK, Nathens AB, Rivara FP, Wessells H. Predictors of Nephrectomy for renal trauma: results from the National Trauma Data Bank.

  • American Urological Association Meeting, Chicago, USA, May 2003

Kuan JK, Brock GB. Oral vitamin E and folic acid supplementation during sildenafil therapy for erectile dysfunction improves salvage in non-responders.