Board of Directors

Greg Barme, MD

Dr. Greg Barme joins Golden Gate Urology after 15 years in private community practice in Newport Beach. California. He served on the Medical Executive Committee and as the Chairman of Urology at Hoag Memorial Hospital, a large, community based medical center in Newport Beach. Dr. Barme grew up in Los Angeles and went to U.C. Berkeley for his one undergraduate degree. He then went to medical school at U.C. San Diego and did his Residency in Urology at Yale University. He then settled in Southern California with his wife and two kids. He spends much of his free time outdoors, skiing, hiking, and camping with his family and friends. An avid piano player, he is a fan of all types of music and arts. He loves providing outstanding and comprehensive urologic care to his patients. He practices general urology, with special interest in kidney stones, urologic cancers, infertility, vasectomies (he has performed over 2000), and urinary and sexual issues facing the aging population. He looks forward to relocating to the East Bay with his family and meeting you soon.

Specialty:

• General Urology

Clinical Interests:

• Kidney stones, prevention and advanced surgical techniques
• Active surveillance for prostate cancer
• Vasectomy and reversal
• Sexual and urinary issues in the aging population

Robert Q. Hoang, MD

Dr. Robert Q. Hoang received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry from University of Texas. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed urology residency at University of Texas Medical School – MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Board certified in urology, Dr. Hoang has been in private-practice since 2000.

Dr. Hoang’s practice covers Adult & Pediatric Urology, including BPH (enlarged prostate), Urinary (Voiding) Dysfunction, Female and Male Urinary Incontinence (leakage), and Kidney Stones treatment and prevention. He evaluates and treats urologic cancers (prostate, bladder, kidneys, testicles), and is proficient in laparoscopic and Da Vinci robotic surgery.

Dr. Hoang has a life-long commitment to volunteerism locally and abroad, serving the basic needs of our elderly and providing medical/surgical care in low-resource areas.

AFFILIATIONS:

Chinese Hospital, San Francisco
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Mills-Peninsula Health Services (San Mateo, Burlingame)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Urological Association & Western Section of AUA
American College of Surgeons (ACS) & California Chapter of ACS
San Mateo County Medical Society
California Medical Association

Wenwu Jin, MD, PhD

Dr. Jin received B.S. degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Dr. Jin obtained Ph.D. degree in biophysics and bioengineering, and M.D. degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed urology residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Board certified in urology, Dr. Jin has been practicing in San Francisco since 2009.

Dr. Jin’s practice covers male and female adult urology, including urologic cancers, kidney stone diseases, ureteral obstruction, prostate diseases, urinary incontinence, and sexual dysfunction. Dr. Jin specializes in robotic surgery, laparoscopic surgery and other minimally invasive procedures. He is an expert in advanced robotic surgery to treat patients with prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer and ureteral obstruction. He performs minimally invasive endoscopic surgery to patients with complex kidney stone diseases. He also performs in-office procedures, such as UroLift (prostatic urethral lift) and TUNA (Trans Urethral Needle Ablation of the prostate) for benign prostate enlargement, and no-scalpel vasectomy.

AFFILIATIONS:

• Chinese Hospital, San Francisco
• California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
• St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• American Urological Association
• American Medical Association
• American Association of Clinical Urologists
• San Francisco Medical Society
• California Urological Association
• Northern California Urological Society

Dr. David Kornguth

Dr. David Kornguth is the Radiation Oncology Chief of Golden Gate Cancer Center and leads an experienced team. We focus on your success at Golden Gate Cancer Center. Dr. Kornguth trained at MD Anderson cancer Center in Houston Texas and joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor before moving to California.

“I believe that patients have to understand the disease process and be part of the decision making team. The old medical model was more of a paternalistic “doctors knows best” attitude that always bothered me. Patients deserve better than that.”

Dr. Kornguth has created some YouTube videos that have helped patients with cancer.

https://youtu.be/mj8F8nGEHQw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoAAwaPNDfI

Andrew Pienkny, MD

Dr. Pienkny is a transplanted New Yorker who received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Brown University, and then went on to Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. in 1994. He completed his urology residency at the Cleveland Clinic, before settling in the Bay Area in 2000. Dr. Pienkny is Board Certified in urology, and practices general adult urology with a special interest in voiding dysfunction, incontinence and vasectomies. He also performs minimally invasive surgeries for enlarged prostates, and kidney stones.

Dr. Pienkny has been a past member of the medicare committee for Alta Bates Medical Group. He is an active member of both the American Urological Society as well as the California Urological Society.

When he is not at work, Dr. Pienkny can often be found jogging along the Iron Horse Trail, snowboarding in Tahoe, or taking in a baseball game with his teenage son Max. He and his wife Christin live in Alamo with their son, where they are also active members of Congregation B’nai Tikvah.

Daniel Oberlin, MD

Daniel T. Oberlin, MD is a fellowship-trained Board Certified Urologist in the East Bay of San Francisco (Berkeley, Oakland). He treats all types of urological conditions in men and women with a focus on minimally invasive urologic oncology. Dr. Oberlin completed his undergraduate degree with honors from Dartmouth College. He went on to Case Western Reserve University for his medical degree where he was awarded research grants from the NIH to study kidney transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Oberlin completed his residency at Northwestern University and achieved accolades including winning manuscripts and presentations at national meetings as well as first place awards during research presentations. His research attracted national attention in prostate cancer care, kidney stone treatment, and practice patterns in urology.

Dr. Oberlin completed a fellowship in oncology and robotic surgery at the University of Southern California. He performed hundreds of robotic surgeries while at the highest volume robotics program on the west coast with internationally recognized leader in the field of robotics. Dr. Oberlin continues to contribute to academic urology publishing in major urologic journals and currently serves as peer-reviewer for several leading journals.

Dan is the proud father of a beautiful daughter and lives in the East Bay. His interests outside of urology include fly fishing, skiing, hiking, and traveling. Dan and his wife Pisey look forward to being active members of the Berkeley and Oakland communities.

visit website: www.droberlin.com

Rodman Rogers, MD

Dr. Rogers’ practice focuses on the clinical application of new technology. This includes minimally-invasive treatments for kidney, bladder and prostate disorders. He has particular interest in treatments for erectile dysfunction, voiding symptoms and urinary incontinence in both men and women.

He specializes in laparoscopic and/or robotic surgery for kidney and bladder and prostate cancer, and telescopic surgery (“endourology”) for benign prostate enlargement and urinary stones. He performs the Urolift procedure for prostate obstruction, the no-scalpel vasectomy, and offers in-office sedation for procedures. His practice emphasizes preventive medicine and non-surgical treatment for voiding symptoms, kidney stones, sexual dysfunction and urologic malignancies where appropriate.

He is the Vice Chairman of the Board of the Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, a member of the CPMC Cancer Committee, CPMC Robotic Surgery Program Committee, Medical Executive Committee of the Presidio Surgery Center and has been on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Medical Society.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Rogers is an avid swimmer on the San Francisco Tsunami Masters Swim Team and participates in open water swim events in the San Francisco Bay. He also enjoys snow skiing, scuba diving, hiking and kite boarding.

Ira Sharlip, MD

Ira D. Sharlip, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Urology at the University of California at San Francisco. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned B.A. and M.D. degrees. He did his postgraduate medical training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at San Francisco, and at the Middlesex Hospital in London, England. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and in Urology. He practices clinical urology and urological surgery in San Francisco.

Dr. Sharlip is a urological surgeon and an internationally recognized authority on urological problems of the male sexual and reproductive systems. Author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and/or book chapters, he lectures extensively on these and other urological subjects. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. He serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Urology, Fertility and Sterility, Urology, European Urology and other medical journals. He belongs to more than 15 professional societies and serves as an officer and/or committee member in several of them.

He is Past President of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and founder and Past-President of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He has served the American Urological Association (AUA) as a member or chairman of several committees including the Practice Guidelines Committee and the Public Media Committee. Currently, he chairs the AUA’s Male Circumcision Task Force. This Task Force is developing a pool of qualified volunteer surgeons who will be available to perform and teach male circumcision in Africa. The Task force is working with the World Health Organization and other international health authorities to enhance HIV prevention services in areas where there is a high prevalence of HIV infection and a low prevalence of male circumcision.

In the field of male infertility, Dr. Sharlip is a leading authority on vasectomy, vasectomy reversal and other types of microsurgical reconstruction of the male reproductive system. He has been Co-Chairman of the Male Infertility Best Practice Policy Committee of the American Urological Association. Currently, he chairs the Vasectomy Guideline Committee of the American Urological Association. This committee is writing an evidence-based document which will identify optimum preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative practices in vasectomy. The document will be available in May 2012.

Dr. Sharlip served as Senior Flight Surgeon in the United States Army during the Vietnam conflict. He is a decorated veteran of dozens of combat missions there. He has consulted in hospitals throughout the world and he has worked as a volunteer physician and surgeon in Kenya, Thailand, and Vietnam. In February 2004, he served as the urologist on a team of 30 doctors from the United States which traveled to Baghdad to assess healthcare needs in Iraq.