Portrait Basil Kaufmann

Basil Kaufmann
Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Urology

Specialties

  • Urological oncology and tumor surgery (especially robot-assisted Retzius-sparing prostatectomy)
  • Minimally invasive urology
  • Endourology (TUR prostate, Greenlight, HIFU, TUR bladder, ureterorenoscopy)

Contact

Tel. +41 43 253 19 90
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Other competencies

  • Tumors of the upper urinary tract (laser ablation)
  • 3D prostate biopsies (MRI fusion, stereotactic) under local anesthesia

Career

since 2024 Senior Physician, Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Dr. Dr. med. D. Eberli)
2024 Senior Physician, Department of Urology, Heidelberg University Hospital, DE (Prof. Dr. med. M. Hohenfellner)
2023 Research Fellowship, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA (Prof. Dr. Ashutosh Tewari)
2023 Specialist FMH Urology
2022 Senior Physician, Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Dr. Dr. med. D. Eberli)
2021 Resident, Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Dr. med. T. Sulser, Prof. Dr. med. D. Eberli)
2020 – 2021 Resident, Clinic for Urology, St. Claraspital Basel (PD Dr. med. T. Zellweger)
2018 – 2020 Resident, Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Dr. med. T. Sulser)
2017 – 2018 Resident, General Surgery, Zurich City Hospital (PD Dr. med. S. Wildi)
2010 – 2016 Federal State Examination in Human Medicine, Medical Faculty of the University of Fribourg and Zurich

Most important memberships

  • Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU)
  • European Association of Urology (EAU)
  • Swiss Society of Urology (SGU)

Research focus

  • Uro-oncology with a focus on research in the field of early detection and risk stratification of prostate cancer
  • Evaluation of focal therapies (i.e. HIFU).
  • New imaging techniques for renal tumors (99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT/CT) and prognostic markers in bladder cancer (ctDNA).
  • Surgical innovations in radical prostatectomy (SAFE technique, Retzius-sparing approach).

Publications

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