Dr. Lerner is Professor of Urology and holds the Beth and Dave Swalm Chair in Urologic Oncology, in the Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine. He is Director of Urologic Oncology and the Multidisciplinary Bladder Cancer Program and Vice-chair for Faculty Affairs for Urology. His clinical practice, education, and research activities are devoted to urologic oncology and particularly lower and upper tract urothelial cancer. He holds an MD from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed a two-year fellowship at the University of Southern California in urologic oncology and reconstructive surgery in Los Angeles.