Ralph V. Clayman, MD

• Kidney Stones & Kidney Disease Services
• Kidney Cancer Services
• Urologic Cancer Services
• Urology Services
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Services

• American Board of Urology, Urology

• English

• Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Endourology — Department of Urology, UCI School of Medicine
• Dean Emeritus — UCI School of Medicine
• Editor — Journal of Endourology

• Physicians of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association — 2017, 2019-2021
• America's Top Doctors (Cryoablation, Kidney Cancer, Kidney Stones, Laparoscopic Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Urinary Obstruction), Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. — 2012
• Barringer Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Urology, American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons
• Best Doctors in America^® — Urology — 2005-2013, 2015-2016
• Distinguished Contribution Award, American Urological Association
• Distinguished Service Award, American Lithotripsy Society
• Dornier Innovator's Award, American Urological Association
• First Recipient of the Karl Storz Award for Innovation and Achievement, Endourology Society
• Hugh Hampton Young Award, American Urological Association
• Innovation Research Award from the American Urological Association
• Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons — EXCEL Award
• Mentor Award: Endourology Society — 2011

Dr. Ralph V. Clayman, dean emeritus of the UCI School of Medicine, is an internationally respected urologist who pioneered minimally invasive surgical techniques that have revolutionized treatment for diseases of the kidney and urinary tract.

He performed the world's first removal of a tumor-bearing kidney through a small incision using a laparoscope. He also perfected the use of cryotherapy to treat renal cancer, as well as other less invasive methods to improve patient outcomes.

Clayman has invented more than a dozen devices for performing minimally invasive surgery and he has published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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Speakers Bureau Topics

• Creativity and the Academic Process
• Renal Cancer: From Knife to Needle to Nothing! Minimal and Invasive Surgery
• Renal Stones, Percutaneous Removal
• Renal Urolithiasis: Treatment Update 2013
• Staghorn Calculi, Treatment
• Surgical Simulation: Development and Impact on Surgical Training
• Surgical Training in 2013: Challenges and Changes
• Ureteroscopy, Flexible: Tips and Tricks
• Urolithiasis Patient, Metabolic Evaluation