ABOUT THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Editor-in-Chief
Peter T Scardino, MD
Peter T Scardino, MD
Peter T Scardino earned a BA in religious studies at Yale University in 1967 and graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1971. He served as a resident in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, then completed a fellowship in urologic oncology at the National Cancer Institute (1973-76) and urology residency at UCLA (1976-79). In 1979 he joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, becoming the Russell and Mary Hugh Scott Professor of Urology and Chairman of the Scott Department of Urology in 1989. In 1995 Dr Scardino was designated Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and in 1996 he was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr Scardino moved from Texas to New York in 1998 to become Chief of the Urology Service, the Murray F Brennan Chair in Surgery, and the Head of the Prostate Cancer Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), as well as Professor of Urology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He took on additional roles in 1999 as Chairman of the Department of Urology and the Alfred P Sloan Chair at MSKCC and, in 2000, the Florence and Theodore Baumritter/Enid Ancell Chair in Urologic Oncology at MSKCC and Professor in the Department of Urology at SUNY Downstate.
Dr Scardino is internationally recognized for his work in urologic oncology, particularly with regard to the natural history, early detection, prognosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Among his major research interests are markers of prognosis in prostate cancer, informatics tools for predicting prognosis and response to therapy, imaging studies to stage prostate cancer, and surgical methods for improved outcome. Dr Scardino is Principal Investigator of MSKCC's Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Prostate Cancer, funded by the National Cancer Institute, and heads a team of investigators in collaboration with Cancer Research UK, studying the natural history of prostate cancer.
Recognized for his excellent teaching, Dr Scardino has held visiting professorships at academic institutions in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. Among his numerous honors and awards are the Fuller Triennial Prostate Award from the American Urological Association, the Presidential Citation from the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, being the Keynote Speaker at the American Association for Cancer Research conference in 2001 and the Folke Edsmyr Memorial Lecturer at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 2003. He has been named one of the "Best Doctors in New York City" by New York magazine every year since 2000.
Dr Scardino serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and is an author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. He is serving for a third time as one of the editors of Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology.
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