Dr. William E Kaplan MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
2300 N Childrens Plz Chicago IL, 60614About
Dr. William Kaplan practices Pediatric Urology in Chicago, IL. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Kaplan is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Kaplan performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
Univ of Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1973
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- 1980
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Snodgrass hypospadias repair with vascularized dartos flap: the perfect repair for virgin cases of hypospadias?
- Clean intermittent catheterization in genitally sensate children: patient experience and health related quality of life.
- Multi-institutional experience with PIC cystography--incidence of occult vesicoureteral reflux in children with febrile urinary tract infections.
- Clinical urological outcomes following primary tethered cord release in children younger than 3 years.
- Intravesical electrotherapy for neurogenic bladder dysfunction: a 22-year experience.
- Incidence based fetal urological counseling using the virtual pediatric urology registry: importance of insignificant fetal pyelectasis (sonographically evident renal pelvis).
- Office management of pediatric primary nocturnal enuresis: a comparison of physician advised and parent chosen alternative treatment outcomes.
- Ultrasound fails to delineate significant renal pathology in children with urinary tract infections: a case for dimercapto-succinic acid scintigraphy.
- A new computer enhanced visual learning method to train urology residents in pediatric orchiopexy: a prototype for Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education documentation.
- A review of pediatric glans malformations: a handy clinical reference.
- Complete excision or marsupialization of ureteroceles: does choice of surgical approach affect outcome?
- Newborn society of fetal urology grade 3 hydronephrosis is equivalent to preserved percentage differential function.
- Fetal pyelectasis as predictor of decreased differential renal function.
- Editorial comment.
- Active learning: a resident's reflection on the impact of a student-centred curriculum.
Awards
- 2012 Chicago Super Doctors
- 2001 Ronald McDonald House & Charities Outstanding Contribution to Childre
- 1986 The Warren H. Cole Society Spina Bifida Association of America Profes
Treatments
- Hernia, Kidney Problems, Hydrocele And More
Professional Memberships
- Member American Academy of Pediatrics
- Member Society of Pediatric Urology
- Member Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology
- Member American Urological Association
- Member Urodynamics Society
- Member International Urogynecological Society
Fellowships
- Problem Based Learning: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 1995
- Scientific Basis Lectures: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 1998
- Northwestern McGaw/Children's Memorial Hospital, Pediatric Urology 1979
- Lurie Childrens Memorial Hospital 1979
- Children's Memorial Hospital 1979
- Program Chairman Fellowship Program Children's Memorial Hospital Pediatric Urology
- pediatric urology, Children's Memorial Hospital 1978
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