Dr. Shahram Shawn Gholami MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
2581 Samaritan Dr #200 San Jose CA, 95124About
Dr. Shahram Gholami practices Pediatric Urology in San Jose, CA. 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. Gholami is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Gholami 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
Boston University School of Medicine 1996
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
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Data provided by the National Library of MedicineTreatments
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (bph)
- Prostate Cancer
- Kidney Stones
- Enlarged Prostate
- Bladder Cancer
Fellowships
- Urologic Laparoscopic Oncology Fellowship at University of Paris
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