Aria Olumi

I began my academic career at Harvard as a urologic surgery resident in 1992. Currently, as Chief of Urology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Surgery/Urology at Harvard Medical School, my time is spent in clinical & surgical care, administrative and leadership and research activities. I led the efforts of creating the combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship and have served as Urology Residency Program Director at Massachusetts General Hospital. I have an independent NIH funded laboratory and have mentored 17 medical students, residents and fellows – 8 of whom now have independent academic careers in clinical urology and basic research nationally and internationally. I have been an invited lecturer internationally and participate in grant review processes and research collaborative efforts. My articles are frequently cited with nine of them cited over 100 times and one cited over 1000 times. I have served on the editorial board of the most internationally distributed journal in our field (Journal of Urology), and I am a selected national officer, Chair of Research Council for the largest international urologic society, American Urological Association. In my role as the Chair of Research for AUA, I play a leadership role in developing plans for research advocacy at a national level with NIH and DOD, national conference planning, and enhancing research and educational opportunities for the urologic research community.

Clinical Interests

• Prostate cancer
• Kidney cancer
• Bladder cancer
• Testicular, penile and genitourinary cancers
• Laparoscopic surgery, Robotic surgery, Open surgery
• Minimally invasive laser surgery for enlarged prostates
• Brachytherapy (radioactive seeds) for prostate cancer

Education

• Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School - Urology Residency Program 1992 - 2000
• University of California, San Francisco - Molecular Medicine 1995 - 1998
• University of Southern California - Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine 1987 - 1992
• UC San Diego - Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry 1983 - 1987