Highest honours for Dr. John Denstedt

Presented by the American Urological Association (AUA), the Ramon Guiteras Award is among the distinguished AUA awards, which annually recognize leading urologists from across the globe. The Ramon Guiteras Award for outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology is the AUA’s highest honour. Dr. Denstedt is being recognized for his for pioneering work using endourologic approaches for stone disease and outstanding leadership as AUA Secretary during the worldwide pandemic. He was the first Canadian to hold this prestigious position since the founding of the organization in 1902.

In addition to an active clinical practice at St. Joseph’s, Dr. Denstedt is an internationally renowned scholar in urology with career accomplishments encompassing more than 300 published papers and book chapters, more than 400 guest professorships in 60 countries and numerous honours and awards including being the first Canadian to have won the Gold Cystoscope Award from the AUA in 1998. In 2019 he was awarded the Karl Storz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Endourological Society and, in 2023, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Alliance of Urolithiasis.

Dr. Denstedt was citywide Chair/Chief of the Department of Surgery in London, Ontario for 14 years, from 2002 to 2016, has served on the editorial board of eight major journals in urology, and is the current President of the international Endourological Society. He will receive the Ramon Guiteras Award at the AUA’s Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in May 2024.

St. Joseph’s is honoured have such an accomplished and respected leader, educator and surgical innovator as a member of the St. Joseph’s family.