Elspeth M. McDougall, M.D., FRCSC
Professor of Urology
Associate Dean, Clinical Science Education
Director, Astellas Surgical Education Center
Specialty
Minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of kidney stones, kidney cancer and strictures of the ureter.
Dr. McDougall joined the UC Irvine faculty in 2002 to continue her clinical and research work in minimally invasive urologic surgery and assist in the development of a minimally invasive surgery education center. She is internationally recognized for her laboratory and clinical research in urologic laparoscopic surgery and for teaching courses on fundamental and advanced endourological and laparoscopic techniques, and is named as one of America's Best Doctors.
Dr. McDougall completed her medical training at the University of Calgary and the University of Ottawa in Canada, and then undertook a fellowship in endourology and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) with Dr. Clayman at Washington University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Washington University Medical School in 1991, where she spent nine years in academic urology. Subsequently, she developed the Endourology/Laparoscopic Urology Program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, during her tenure there as Professor of Urologic Surgery. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (Urology) and certified with the American Board of Urology. She completed a Teaching and Learning Fellowship at the University of Southern California in 2004 and has recently completed her Masters in Health Profession Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. McDougall has published more than 132 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous book chapters. She is the co-editor of two textbooks on laparoscopic surgery. Dr. McDougall is the Chair of the American Urological Association Laparoscopy and Robotic Surgery Committee, a member of the Surgical Simulation Committee of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, and a member of the Education Council of the American Urological Association. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Endourology and the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. She is Past-President of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and a member of the World Congress of Endourology's Fellowship Committee. She is a member of the prestigious American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons.
Dr. McDougall is the Director of the Astellas Surgical Education Center at UC Irvine and developed the ongoing, five-day mini-fellowship training program in minimally invasive urologic surgery for training academic and community urologists. She is Associate Dean of Clinical Sciences for UC Irvine School of Medicine and Director of Research in Medical Education. She also is co-director of the annual New Frontiers in Endourology course at UC Irvine.
Training
Undergraduate: University of Alberta
Medical School: University of Calgary
Residency: Holy Cross Hospital (Family Practice)
Ottawa Civic and Ottawa General Hospitals Holy Cross Hospital (Urology)
Fellowship Training: Endourology / Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Learning and Teaching / University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
