Dr. Robert Shahon

EDUCATION TRAINING

  9/71-6/74  Newton South High School
Newton, MA 
  9/74-5/78 Tufts University
Medford, MA

BA Chemistry, Cum Laude

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

  5/78-9/79  New England Medical Center
Director: Sheldon Wolf, MD
Immunology research

MEDICAL SCHOOL

  9/79-5/83 Tufts University
Medford, MA

MD

RESIDENCY

  7/83-6/84 Surgical Internship
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Chief: James Carrico, MD
 

7/84-6/85

Surgical Residency
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Chief: James Carrico, MD
  7/85-6/89 Urology Residency
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, NY
Director: Arthur D. Smith, MD
  7/88-6/89 Urology Chief Residency
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, NY
Director: Arthur D. Smith, MD

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

  7/91-present St. Joseph’s Hospital & Med Center
Phoenix, AZ
  7/91-1/05 Good Samaritan Hospital
Phoenix, AZ
  7/91-present Banner Desert Medical Center
Mesa, AZ
  7/96-present Scottsdale Memorial Osborn
Scottsdale, AZ
  7/97-1/02 Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital
Tempe, AZ
  8/97-present Chandler Hospital
Chandler, AZ
  11/00-present Mesa Lutheran Hospital
Mesa, AZ
(Currently on leave of absence)
  7/89-6/91 Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
  7/89-6/91 Hospital of St. Raphael
New Haven, CT

ACTIVITY POST UROLOGICAL TRAINING

  7/89-7/91 Assistant Clinical Instructor of Urology
Yale New Haven Hospital
Community Teaching Service
  7/91-4/93 Staff Urologist for Thomas Davis
Medical Centers of Arizona-Phoenix
  4/93-6/97 Staff Urologist
Cigna Health Plan of Arizona-Tempe
  6/97-present Private Practice - Mesa

SOCIETIES

  American Urological Association
  American College of Surgeons
  Maricopa Medical Society
  Phoenix Urological Society

MEDICAL LICENSES

  1990 Arizona #19356

BOARD CERTIFICATION

  2/16/92 American Board of Urology
Certificate No: 10350
Re-certified 2/28/00

PUBLICATIONS

Shahon, R., Smith, A.: Large Caliceal Diverticulum After ESWL, submitted for publication.

Shahon, R., Badlani, G., Smith, A.: Septicemia after Retrograde Flushing of Upper Ureteral Calculi. Infections in Urology. 4, 4:1991.

Moldwin, R., Weinberg, J., Shahon, R., Orihuela, E.: A Porcine Model to Evaluate Toxicity and Inflammatory Response of High Dose BCG Therapy to the Renal Pelvis. Abstract 1220. J Urology, Vol. 141, 1989.

Shahon, R., Badlani, G., Smith, A.: Does Reflux Cause Flank Pain in Patients with Ureteral Stents? Abstract 1145, J Urology, Vol. 141, 1989.

Motola J., Shahon, R., Smith, A.: Anatomy of the Ureter. Urological Clinics of North America, 15, 3, 1988.

Shahon, R., Orihuela, E.: Influence of Blood Group Type in the Natural History of Superficial Bladder Cancer. J Urology, Vol. 138, 758, 1987.

Cubelli, V., Shahon, R., Smith, A.: Fluroscopically Guided Transurethral Distal Ureteral incision for Stones and Strictures. Endourology 2: 18, 1988.

Joiner, K., Shahon, R., Gelfand, J.: A Sensitive Microassay for the Murine Alternative Compliment Pathway. J Imm Methods, 31: 283, 1979

Shahon, R., Wright, J.: Sulfenyl Halide Intermediates for Latent Alkylators. J Chemistry, 1284, 1979.