Physician Profile
Howard J. Sandler, M.D. F.A.C.S.

Education and Training:

• College:  University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 1959 - 1963
  
• Medical School:  Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1963 – 1967
  
• Internship and Residency in Surgery:  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx
• Jacobi Hospital (formerly Bronx Municipal Hospital Center), Bronx, NY, 1967 – 1969
  
• Military:  Chief of Aerospace Medicine, McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, 1969 – 1971
  
• Residency in Urology:  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal
• Hospital, Bronx, NY, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY, 1971 – 1974
  

Present and Past Appointments:

• Clinical Instructor, New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1974 – 1979
  
• Active Attending, Medical Staff at Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ, 1975 –
• Present
  
• Attending, Barnert Memorial Hospital, Paterson, NJ, and Chilton Hospital, Pompton Plains, NJ, 1974 – 1990
  
• Director of the Department of Urology, Chilton Memorial Hospital, 1985 – 1987
  
• Active Attending, Medical Staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Paterson and Wayne, NJ
  
• American Urological Association (AUA)
  
• New York Section of American Urological Association
  
• Fellow of American College of Surgeons
  
• Bergen County Medical Society
  
• International Society of Impotence Research
  
• American Society for Reproductive Medicine (Formerly American Fertility Society)
  
• Urologic Representative to the New Jersey Academy of Medicine
  
• National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals:  2001 – 2002
  
• Prostate Cancer Research Institute: 2001 – 2002
  

Board Certifications:

• Diplomate of the American Board of Urology
  

Publications and Awards:

• The Absence of Vesico Ureteral Reflux in the Neonate with Myelodysplasia, Co-Author.  Journal of Urology, Vol. 114, July 1975.
  
• Abstract being written for presentation on the use of Multimodality Therapy for the Treatment of High Risk Adeno Carcinoma of the Prostate.
  

Memberships:

• American Urological Association
  
• New York Section of the Urological Association
  
• New Jersey Section of the Urological Association
  
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
  

Interests and Research:

• Second Urologist in the United States to perform Ultrasound Guided Transperineal Implantation of the Prostate for Prostate Cancer using Radioactive Seeds.
  
• First Urologist in New Jersey to perform Radio Frequency Wave Ablation of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy.
  
• Participation in the clinical research on the effects of Keflex in children with Urinary Tract Infections.
  

Presentations:

• November 1973 – “A Prospective Urological Study of Neonates with Menigomyeloceles”, presented at the New York Section meeting of the AUA, Puerto Rico.
  
• 1994 – Guest speaker on Management of Prostate Cancer, Tampa Urological Society
  
• 1995 – Guest speaker at New Jersey Academy of Medicine on Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer.
  
• 1996 – Grand Rounds, Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ, Prostate Cancer.
  
• 1997 – Supervised first live Tele/video Presentation at the AUA National Meeting, Dallas, TX.  Subject:  Palladium 103 Seed Implantation for Prostate Cancer.  Sponsored by Johnson and Johnson (Indigo).
  
• 1998 – Presented at a workshop at the AUA National Meeting, San Diego, CA.  Reviewed The Worldwide Experience of Brachytherapy for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer.
  
• 1993 – 1998 – Featured on channels 2, 4, 5, and 11 News regarding Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer.
  
• 1997 – 2002 – Featured on channels 4, 9, and Public Television News regarding, The Use of Radio Frequency Waves for Treating Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy.