Elspeth M. McDougall, M.D., FRCSC
Professor of Urology
Associate Dean, Clinical Science Education
Director, Astellas Surgical Education Center
Specialty
Minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of kidney stones, kidney cancer and strictures of the ureter.
Dr. McDougall joined the University of California, Irvine, Department of Urology faculty in 2002 to continue her clinical and research work in minimally invasive urologic surgery and assist in the development of a minimally invasive surgery education center. She is internationally recognized for her laboratory and clinical research in urologic laparoscopic surgery and for teaching courses on fundamental and advanced endourological and laparoscopic techniques.
Dr. McDougall completed her medical and residency training at the University of Calgary and the University of Ottawa in Canada, and then undertook a fellowship in endourology and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) with Dr. Clayman at Washington University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Washington University Medical School in 1991, where she spent nine years in academic urology. Subsequently, she developed the Endourology/Laparoscopic Urology Program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, during her tenure there as Professor of Urologic Surgery. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (Urology) and certified with the American Board of Urology. Dr. McDougall has published more than 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous book chapters. She is the co-editor of two textbooks on laparoscopic surgery.
Dr. McDougall is chairperson of the AUA Laparoscopy Committee and coordinates the Ad Hoc Surgical Simulation Group with the American Urological Association. She is on the editorial boards of theJournal of Endourology and the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. She is Past President of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and was awarded the Excel Award by this multidisciplinary surgical society in 2007. She is a member of the World Congress of Endourology's Scientific Meeting Advisory Committee and the Endourology Fellowship Committee. She was elected to the prestigious American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons and is a junior council member for that organization.
Dr. McDougall is Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Education Center at UCI and has developed the ongoing, five-day mini-residency training program in minimally invasive urologic surgery for post-graduate urologists. Effective January 2008, Dr. McDougall has assumed the positions of Associate Dean of Clinical Science Education and Director of Research in Medical Education of the University of California, Irvine.
Training
Undergraduate: University of Alberta
Medical School: University of Calgary
Residency: Holy Cross Hospital (Family Practice)
Ottawa Civic and Ottawa General Hospitals Holy Cross Hospital (Urology)
Fellowship Training: Endourology / Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Learning and Teaching / University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
