In Loving Memory
1961-2023
Dr. Alan Partin was a noted physician-scientist, surgeon and a beloved member of the PCEC Council for over two decades. He brilliantly pursued science and cared for thousands of patients with kindness and expertise that will continue to be the best practice of patient care well into the future. His love of life, passion for helping patients and the joy hey shared in helping to build our organization will be deeply missed.
Dr. Partin's laboratories and clinical and surgical interest were focused on the development of new methods for predicting the aggressiveness of prostate cancers. Dr. Partin earned his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Mississippi in 1983 and graduating first in his class, he attended Johns Hopkins for medical training, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1988 and his M.D. in 1989. He served a surgical internship in 1989, a surgical junior residency in 1990, and his urology residency in 1991, before being named to the faculty as an instructor of urology in 1994. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and then to professor of urology in 1999. He is the Bernard L. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Urologic Oncology. The author of more than 600 scientific papers, was the editor in chief of the journal Urology, editor of leading urology textbooks, associate editor of Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, associate editor of Urology Reviews, and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Andrology, Urology Research and Treatment, Current Urology Reports, Clinical Prostate Cancer and the British Journal of Urology.