The 2016 Ferdinand C. Valentine Award and Lecture: "Form and Function in the Urinary Tract"

Urologists rely upon using urinary tract form to derive function and disease. Often function follows form. This talk will discuss when form within the urinary tract informs function and situations in which this is unreliable. Reasons for making our analysis of imaging quantitative rather than subjective will be shown.

Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe, MD is the Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor Emerita of Urology at Stanford. She was Department Chair (1995-2011), Residency Program Director, founding Chief Pediatric Urology, first Stanford Fellowship Director Pediatric Urology, and Chief of Urology at the Palo Alto VA.

She received AB cum laude in History and Science from Harvard, MD from Stanford, urologic training at Stanford University Medical Center, and pediatric urologic training at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia. She was the Hewlett Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a Stanford Clayman Institute Faculty Fellow. She was a featured physician in the National Library of Medicine exhibit, “Changing the Face of Medicine” and received a 2015 AUA Distinguished Service Award.

She had grants to examine prostatitis, effects of pregnancy and sex hormones on the urinary tract, and pediatric urinary tract imaging and physiology, and published over 180 manuscripts, chapters, and articles. She served as Deputy Chair NIH Consensus Panel on Impotence, NIDDK Special Grants Chartered Review Committee member, and Chair of the NIH Bladder Research Program Review Group that produced the publication to guide NIDDK research, Overcoming Bladder Disease: a Strategic Plan for Research.

She was oral examiner, Trustee, and President of the American Board of Urology, President Society University Urologists, Chair Society University Chairs & Program Directors, Chair Urology Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Chair of AUA/EAU Academic Fellowship Program, an Associate Editor AUA News, and member of ABU/AUA Joint Exam Committee, ACGME Urology Residency Review Committee, AAP Subcommittee on Urinary Tract Infections, Executive Committee AAP Section on Urology, Bladder Health Council of AFUD, Board of AFUD, Council on Education, Publications, Core Curriculum Steering, and the AUA Annual Program Committee.

About the Ferdinand C. Valentine Award
Dr. Ferdinand Valentine was elected a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine on January 2, 1896. He was a founder of the American Urological Association and its first secretary and third President. He was Professor of Genitourinary Diseases at the New York School of Clinical Medicine and made many contributions to the medical literature. His clinical appointments included Consulting Genitourinary Surgeon to the Manhattan State Hospital, to the West Side German Dispensary and the Red Cross Hospital. The Valentine Medal and Lectureship was created by the Valentine family to celebrate his many contributions to medicine.