Physician Profile
David Shin, M.D.

Education and Training:

College 
1989 – 1993, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 

Medical School
1993 – 1997, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 

Internship and Residency in Surgery
1997 – 1999, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut

Residency in Urology 
2000 – 2002, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Section of Urology, West Haven VA Medical Center


Fellowship 
1999, Post-doctorate Fellow in Urologic Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut


2003 – 2004, Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas


Present and Past Appointments:

 

Board Certifications:

  • Diplomate, American Board of Urology, February 2006


Honors/Awards:

  • 2002, AUA/Praecis Gerald P. Murphy Scholar
  • 2001, Society for Male Reproduction and Urology Travel Award
  • 1997, Medical Degree with Honors in Research
  • 1997, AUA-New York Section, 1st prize, Clinical Investigations
  • 1996, George N. Papanicolaou Fellow in Clinical Anatomy
  • 1994. National Institutes of Health Summer Research Fellowship
  • 1993, Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in All Subjects
  • 1992, Golden Key National Honor Society

Publications:

  1. Schlegel, PN, Shin, D, and Goldstein, M:  Urogenital Anomalies in Men with Congenital Absence of the Vas Deferens.  J. Urol. 1996, 155: 1644-1648.
  2. Shin, D, Lipshultz, LI, Goldstein, M et al.: Herniorrhaphy with Polypropylene Mesh Causing Inguinal Vasal Obstruction: A Preventable Cause of Obstructive Azoospermia.  Ann Surg. 2005, 241(4):553-8.
  3. Shin, D, Lo, KC and Lipshultz, LI: Treatment Options for the Infertile Male with Cancer.  J. Natl Cancer Inst Monograph 2005, 34: 48-50.
  4. Foster, HE Jr., Yono, M, Shin, D, Takahashi, W, Pouresmail, M, Afiatpour, P and Latifpour, J:  Effects of chronic administration of doxazosin on a1-            adrenoceptors in the rat prostate. J. Urol. 2004, 172 (6): 2465-2470.
  5. Yono, M, Foster, HE Jr., Shin, D, Pouresmail, M, Takahashi, W, and Latifpour, J:  Doxazosin treatment causes differential alterations of a1-adrenoceptor subtypes in the rat kidney, heart and aorta. Life Sci. 2004, 75: 2605-2614.
  6. Kim, A, Shin, D, Martin, TV and Honic, SC: Laparoscopic Mobilization of the Retroperitoneal Vas Deferens for Microscopic Inguinal Vasovasostomy.  J. Urol. 2004, 172 (5): 1948-1949.
  7. Shin, D, Chuang, WW and Lipshultz, LI: Surgical Atlas Vasovasostomy.  British Journal of Urology International 2004, 93: 1363-1378.
  8. Honig, SC and Shin, D: How Much Does It COST to Have a Baby?  Cost Comparison of Treatments for Male Infertility.  Family Urology 2004, 9 (1): 23-27.
  9. Shin, D and Honig, SC:  Economics of Treatments for Male Infertility. Urology Clinics North America 2002, 29: 841-853.
  10. Ikeda, K, Wada, Y, Sanematsu, H, Foster, HE Jr, Shin, D, Weiss RM and Latifpour, J: Regulatory Effect of Experimental Diabetes on the Expression of Endothelin Receptor Subtypes and Their Gene Transcription in the Rat Adrenal Gland.  J. Endocrinol.  2001, 168 (1):163-175.
  11. Shin, D, Palmero, GD, Goldstein, M, Rosenwaks, Z, and Schlegel, PN: Indications for Corticosteroids Prior to Epididymal Sperm Retrieval.  Int. J. Fertility 1998, 43 (3): 165-170.
  12. Shin, D, Lemack, GE, and Goldstein, M: Induction of spermatogenesis and pregnancy after adult orchiopexy.  J. Urol. 1997, 158: 2242.
  13. Shin, D, Gilbert, F, Goldstein, M, Schlegel, PN:  Congenital Absence of the Vas Deferens: Incomplete Penetrance of Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutations.  J. Urol. 1997, 158: 1794-1799.

Book Chapter

  1. Hessami SH, Shin D: Lower Urinary Tract Endoscopy.  In Practical Manual of Laparoscopy and Minimally Invasive Gynecology, 2nd Edition, Chapter 21.  Pasaic R, Levine R (eds). Kent, United Kingdom: Informa Healthcare, 2007, pp 261-269.

Selected Abstracts/Presentations:

1.       Shin, D, Dodge JS, Lo, KC, Takahashi, KK, Chuang, W and Lipshultz, LI: An Improved Regimen of Intralesional Verapamil Injection Therapy in the Treatment of Peyronie’s Disease.  J. Urol. 2004, 171 (4S): 330, Abstract # 1254.  American Urological Association, Annual Meeting, San Franscisco, CA, May 2004.

 

2.       Shin, D, Lipshultz, LI and Honig, SC: Herniorrhaphy with Polypropylene Mesh Causing Inguinal Vasal Obstruction: A Preventable Cause of Obstructive Azoospermia, Men’s National Health Conference, Arlington, VA, May 2004.

 

3.       Chuang, W, Lo, KC, Shin, D and Lipshultz, LI: The Number of Years Post Vasectomy and the Level of Vasal Occlusion Influence the Choice of Reversal Procedure.  J. Urol. 2004, 171(4S): 422, Abstract # 1601.  American Urological Association Annual Meeting, San Franscisco, CA, May 2004.

 

4.       Shin, D, Lipshultz, LI, Goldstein, M, et al.: Herniorrhaphy with polypropylene mesh causing inguinal vasal obstruction: a treatable, preventable cause of obstructive azoospermia.  J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2003, 197 (3S): S94.  American College of Surgeons, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, October 2003.

5.       Shin, D and Honig, SC: Testicular Microdissection for Non-Obstructive Azoospermia: Histopathology, Sperm Retrieval Rates and Complications Comparing Transverse and Longitudinal Sperm Mapping Techniques. Fert. Ster. 2001, 76 (3S): S44, Abstract #O-115.  American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL October 2001.

6.       Shin, D and Honig SC: Critical Role of the Reproductive Urologist in Men’s Preventive Health.  Fert. Ster. 2001, 76 (3S): S193, Abstract #P-243. American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL October 2001.

7.       Shin, D, Foster, HE, Latifpour, J: Immunohistochemical localization and characterization of the alpha 1 adrenoceptor in the rat prostate.  New England Section, American Urological Association, Annual Meeting, Quebec, Ontario, September 2000.

8.       Shin, D, Goldstein, M and Schlegel, PN: Congenital Absence of the Vas Deferens: Incomplete Penetrance of CF Gene Mutations.  Ferdinand C. Valentine Essay Contest, New York, NY March 1997.

Invited Lectures:

  • Fertility Preservation in the Male Cancer Patient, GU Tumor Board, Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ, February 2007
  • What’s New in Male Infertility & Sexual Dysfunction?, Medicine Grand Rounds, Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ, January 2007
  • What’s New in Male Infertility?, Urology Grand Rounds, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, October 2005
  • Male Infertility: What’s New in 2005?, Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Paterson, NJ, January 2005.
  • Male Infertility: What’s New in the 21st Century?, Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, NJ, November 2004.
  • Update on Vasectomy Reversal, Varicocele Repair and Sperm Retrieval Techniques, Peri-operative Nurses Meeting, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Center, Houston, TX, April 2004.
  • Erectile Dysfunction, Internists group meeting, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, February 2003
  • Oncology Case Presentations for the Clyde Deming Visiting Professor, Urology Grand Rounds, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, October 2002
  • Instruction in GU physical examination, 2nd year medical students, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, March 2002.

 

Memberships:


Interests and Research:

  • Medical & Surgical Treatments for Male infertility
  • Erectile dysfunction: treatments for the impotent male and for men after radical prostatectomy
  • Verapamil Injection medical therapy for Peyronie’s disease
  • Andropause: treatments for the hypogonadal male (low testosterone state)
  • Laboratory research on the effects of chronic administration of doxazosin (alpha blocker used to treat benign prostatic hypertrophy [BPH]) on the rat prostate
  • Clinical research on men with congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD) and cystic fibrosis gene mutations

 

E-mail: shinmd@gmail.com

 
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