Dr. William Thomas Lowrance, MD

William Lowrance, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Division of Urology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) investigator. He specializes in the surgical treatment of urologic malignancies. His practice at the Huntsman Cancer Institute primarily focuses on treating prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular, and penilecancers. He has extensive training and experience with open, laparoscopic, and robotic surgical techniques. His research efforts focus on understanding and improving clinical outcomes for patients with urologic cancers. For example, he has extensively studied outcomes between robotic and open radical prostatectomy, and currently he is investigating a possible link between chronic kidney disease and renal cancer. He also designs clinical trials studying focal therapy for prostate cancer utilizing various ablative techniques. Dr. Lowrance has published numerous peer-reviewed urologic articles, book chapters, and editorials. …He is member of the American Urological Association’s Advanced Prostate Cancer Clinical Guidelines committee and serves on the editorial board for the medical journal, European Urology. He has received a National Institutes of Health Challenge grant for studying the differences between open and robotic radical prostatectomy.