Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

Claus G. Roehrborn, MD, was born and raised in West Germany. After attending medical school in Giessen, Germany, he began his residency in surgery and urology at the German Army Hospital in Giessen. In 1984, he came to Dallas, Texas, and continued his urology residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. After finishing his residency in 1989 he won an American Foundation of Urologic Disease Scholarship and worked for 2 years with Dr. Jean Wilson in the field of androgen regulation of prostate development and growth. In 1992, he joined the urology faculty at University of Texas Southwestern, where he currently is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology.

His clinical activities focus on benign and malignant prostate diseases and he has performed over 2,000 robotic prostatectomies and several thousand minimally invasive and surgical/laser treatments for BPH. He recently helped to develop the UTSW MRI TRUS fusion program for the improved detection of prostate cancer and has performed approximately 500 of such procedures

Dr. Roehrborn’s research interests are in the areas of benign and malignant prostate diseases, including medical and minimally invasive therapies for BPH, and markers for prostate cancer. In addition, he has a background in urological ultrasound and has chaired numerous postgraduate courses and lectured on a variety of topics in ultrasound imaging of the urinary tract. His basic, translational and clinical research has yielded over 450 peer-reviewed publications, more than 30 book chapters, and numerous other contributions to the literature. Aside from being invited to give lectures all over the world, Dr. Roehrborn has chaired or participated in many postgraduate courses and has been visiting professor at leading urological institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Roehrborn has been the lead researcher for the 1994 Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) BPH Guidelines and has been involved in the American Urological Association (AUA) Guidelines efforts from their inception. He has chaired committees at the WHO-sponsored Consensus Conferences on BPH from 1994 through 2005, is cochairman of the AUA BPH Guidelines Committee producing an update of the 1994 AHCPR Guidelines in 2003 and will take part in the AUA BPH Guidelines update 2017.

Dr. Roehrborn serves on the editorial board of many peer-reviewed journals, is associate editor of Urology, and coeditor of the comprehensive and authoritative Textbook of BPH. He is a reviewer for nearly all peer-reviewed journals in the field of urology.