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Waters Named President of the American Board of Urology

Published: Sunday, April 6, 2008

W. Bedford Waters, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor, Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, was named president of the American Board of Urology (ABU) last month.

“It is indeed a privilege to serve as president of the American Board of Urology for the next year,” Waters said. “Having this position brings honor to the Urology Residency Program, the Department of Surgery and the UT Graduate School of Medicine.”

A native of Knoxville, Waters is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.S., M.D.) and completed residencies at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard Program in Urology, Boston. He has more than 30 years experience in treating urologic conditions and cancers and has served as the leader of many regional and national organizations, including past president of the Urology Section of the National Medical Association and member of the Executive Committees of the Society of Urologic Oncology and the Society of University Urologists. Since 2003, Waters has served as trustee of ABU, representing the American College of Surgeons. He joined the UT Graduate School of Medicine in 2001.

The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville is part of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the statewide academic health system. The school is home to more than 200 teaching physicians and researchers; more than 190 medical and dental resident physicians in 11 residency and 11 fellowship programs; and more than 180 volunteer faculty physicians and dentists. The school, together with clinical partner, University Health System Inc., forms the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the only academic medical center in the Knoxville Tn area. 

For more information about the UT Graduate School of Medicine, visit http://gsm.utmck.edu.