Today is Wednesday, December 03, 2008

   
Thomas Griebling, M.D., F.A.C.S.</B></A><BR> Dr. Tomas Griebling is Associate Professor of Urology and Vice Chair of Urology, and Assistant Scientist in the Center on Aging at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City. He completed medical school and his urology residency training at the University of Iowa. He subsequently remained at Iowa for a two-year fellowship in Geriatric and Reconstructive Urology, Urodynamics, and Outcomes Research. This work was funded by a Health Services Research Scholar Award from the American Foundation for Urologic Disease and the American Urological Association (AUA). He has extensive clinical and research experience in the field of geriatric incontinence, including work in the long-term care setting, and has published extensively on the topic.

Dr. Griebling serves on several national committees for both the American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontological Society of America. He has worked as the urology content expert for several national writing projects including a multidisciplinary program to develop strategic recommendations for a research agenda in the surgical specialties for the American Geriatrics Society and the John A. Hartford Foundation. He is currently participating in the Urologic Diseases in America project examining the research literature on urinary tract infections. He serves as a reviewer for numerous medical journals, and is a grant reviewer for the Alzheimer's Association.

Dr. Griebling received the prestigious William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the University of Kansas for the 2002-03 academic year. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Gerontological Society of America, and he currently serves as secretary of the Geriatric Urologic Society of the American Urological Association, and the secretary-treasurer and president-elect of the Kansas City Urological Society. He is currently completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Kansas. An active musician, Dr. Griebling was recently named a lifetime member of the National Flute Association.


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