Eila Curlee Skinner is an American urologic oncologist and surgeon specializing in bladder reconstruction and continent

urinary diversion Urinary diversion is a surgical technique used to create a new pathway for urine to exit the body, often following the removal of the bladder as part of treatment for bladder cancer. In addition to bladder cancer, urinary diversion may be necessa ...

. She is the Thomas A. Stamey Research professor and chair of urology at the

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Life

Skinner earned an A.B. in human biology from

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in 1976. She was inducted into

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that year. Skinner received a M.D. from the

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in 1983. At the

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, she completed a general surgery internship in 1984 and a urology residency 1988. She conducted a urologic oncology fellowship under Donald G. Skinner at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1990. Skinner is a urologic oncologist, urologist, and urologic surgeon. From 1990 to 2012, she was a faculty member at the Keck School of Medicine of the

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. In May 2012, she became the chair of the department of urology at the

. She is an expert in bladder reconstruction and continent

. She is the Thomas A. Stamey Research professor of urology.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skinner, Eila C Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Stanford University alumni Keck School of Medicine of USC alumni Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty Stanford University School of Medicine faculty American urologists American oncologists American women surgeons 21st-century American women physicians 21st-century American surgeons Women urologists American women oncologists