Tom F. Lue

Dr. Tom Lue is President and Vice Chair of the Department of Urology at University of California, San Francisco.

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He is also the Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology, and the founder of the UCSF Knuppe Molecular Urology Laboratory. He has been practicing medicine for 45 years, and is affiliated with both San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and UCSF Medical Center Parnassus.

Dr. Lue was the recipient of the American Urological Association’s Gold Cystoscope Award, and the AUA President Citation Award. He is also the recipient of the “Donier’s Most Innovative Research Award” from the American Foundation of Urological Diseases and the MERIT Award from NIDDK, NIH. Dr. Lue chaired the International Consultation on Sexual Medicine in Paris in 2003, and was the honorary president of the same in 2007. In 2016, he was awarded the John Lattimer Medal and presented the Lattimer lecture at the AUA annual meeting.

Dr. Lue graduated with highest honors from the Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan in 1972. He received surgical residency training at Macky Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan and Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, New York (1973-1978) followed by urologic residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn (1978-1981). He completed a neurourology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 1982.