{"id":23435,"date":"2026-06-12T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/ucla-physicians-recognized-for-their-achievements-in-urology-ucla-health\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:12:45","slug":"ucla-physicians-recognized-for-their-achievements-in-urology-ucla-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/ucla-physicians-recognized-for-their-achievements-in-urology-ucla-health\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA physicians recognized for their achievements in urology &#8211; UCLA Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or jump to search for:<br \/>Dr. Robert Reiter and Dr. Nima Nassiri have been named recipients of the&nbsp;<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/2026-rhr.webflow.io\/#introduction-and-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Award details\">2026 Research Awards of Distinction<\/a>&nbsp;by the Urology Care Foundation and the American Urological Association.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/providers\/robert-reiter\" title=\"Reiter profile\">Reiter<\/a>, chief of the division of urologic oncology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.ucla.edu\/\" title=\"DGSOM website\">David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA<\/a> and member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/cancer\" title=\"JCCC website\">UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center<\/a>, received the Richard D. Williams, MD Prostate Cancer Research Excellence Award for lifetime contributions to prostate cancer research.&nbsp;<br \/>In addition to surgical management of prostate cancer, Reiter has expertise in focal therapy to treat select individuals, MRI-guided biopsies to diagnose prostate cancer and all forms of medical therapy.<br \/>\u201cIt is truly a great honor to have been nominated for and been awarded the Richard D. Williams Prostate Cancer Research Excellence Award,\u201d said Reiter, who is also UCLA\u2019s Bing Professor of Urologic Research and director of the prostate cancer program. \u201cDr. Williams was an inspirational leader who believed in the critical importance of research to advance our understanding and management of this common and oftentimes lethal disease.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/providers\/nima-nassiri\" title=\"Nassiri profile\">Nassiri<\/a>, assistant professor of urology at the Geffen School of Medicine and director of the bladder transplant program, received the Outstanding Graduate Scholar Award. His clinical interests include general urology, adult and pediatric kidney transplantation, renovascular surgery and robotic kidney transplantation.<br \/>\u201cI am honored to have been selected as an Outstanding Graduate Scholar,\u201d Nassiri said. \u201cThe RSA [research scholar award] provided critical early funding support that helped launch my research initiatives and, importantly, fostered confidence in the work I aimed to pursue.\u201d<br \/>The awards support cutting-edge research in all areas of urology, from basic science to clinical trials.              <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"prose\">\n<p><span>See a doctor, virtually or in-person, with our easy online booking options.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>See a doctor, virtually or in-person, with our easy online booking options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxPeVJ2SFllNGhvQ2V5dlUwRlJudGpwemJZT09GeHdUMkxPemYwRTZrcFloMG9tWU1GN015cG1oTm9QVWNyUlJtUEg3TTRrRS1nX1o4N2plOGJYVEFlLVVkQ1A5bVN0YWJqRVZGalkyX0owZFY4ZkEzbElpa29vamtEU19kdlExcVlrU19BTHRoS2c0QkFqQjJYcw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or jump to search for:Dr. Robert Reiter and Dr. Nima Nassiri have been named recipients of the&nbsp;2026 Research Awards of Distinction&nbsp;by the Urology Care Foundation and the American Urological Association.Reiter, chief of the division of urologic oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}