Warren Snodgrass

Snodgrass received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1980, and then completed urology residency training at Baylor College of Medicine in 1986. He spent 12 years in private practice with his father, a urologist, in Lubbock, Texas.{{cite web|title=Warren Snodgrass, M.D., F.R.C.S.|url=http://www.forestparkfrisco.com/physicians/warren-snodgrass/|publisher=Forest Park Medical Center Frisco|access-date=April 8, 2015}} Then he obtained fellowship training in pediatric urology at Seattle Children's Hospital before moving to Dallas. Snodgrass worked at Children's Medical Center until 2014, serving as the Chief of Pediatric Urology for 12 years.{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.parcurology.com/aboutus/#warren|publisher=PARC Urology|access-date=April 8, 2015}} He was involved in a controversy at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2013 after he invited two world-renowned surgeons to participate in a teaching conference, unaware that one of them had his medical license revoked.{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2013/09/13/ut-southwestern-demotes-pediatric-urology-leader-who-brought-alleged-sex-abuser-to-childrens-medical-center|title=UTSW doctor brought alleged sex abuser to Children's hospital|date=13 September 2013|website=dallasnews.com}}

In 2014, Snodgrass and Nicol Bush left UT Southwestern to establish PARC Urology for complex hypospadias in children and adults, the only practice in North America devoted to hypospadias and related penis birth defects. In 2020 they purchased a surgery center which became the Hypospadias Specialty Center. {{cite journal | last1 = Snodgrass | first1 = W | year = 1994 | title = Tubularized incised plate urethroplasty for distal hypospadias | doi = 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)34991-1 | pmid = 8283561 | journal = J Urol | volume = 151 | issue = 2| pages = 464–5 }}

In 1994, Snodgrass published a description of the TIP repair of hypospadias.{{cite journal | last1 = Cook | first1 = A | last2 = Khoury | first2 = A | last3 = Neville | first3 = C | last4 = Bagli | first4 = D | last5 = Farhat | first5 = W | last6 = Pippi Salle | first6 = J | year = 2005 | title = A multicenter evaluation of technical preferences for primary hypospadias repair | journal = J Urol | volume = 174 | issue = 6| pages = 2354–7, discussion 2357 | doi=10.1097/01.ju.0000180643.01803.43| pmid = 16280842 }} The technique has become popularly known as the Snodgrass urethroplasty or Snodgrass technique and became widely employed across the world. {{cite journal|last1=Alsharbaini|first1=R.|last2=Almaramhy|first2=H.|title=Snodgrass urethroplasty for hypospadias repair: A retrospective comparison of two variations of the technique|journal=Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences|date=March 2014|volume=9|issue=1|pages=69–73|doi=10.1016/j.jtumed.2013.10.002|doi-access=free}} {{cite journal|last1=Tonvichien|first1=V.|last2=Niramis|first2=R.|title=Tubularized, incised plate urethroplasty in hypospadias repair: experience at Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health|journal=Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand|date=August 2003|volume=86|pages=S522–S530|pmid=14700143}} In 2011, the Snodgrass technique was described as the dominant procedure for repairing hypospadias.{{cite book|last1=Smith |first1=Joseph|last2=Howards|first2=Stuart|last3=McGuire |first3=Edward|author4=Preminger, Glenn|title=Hinman's Atlas of Urologic Surgery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdUr8RKikacC&pg=PA102|access-date=April 5, 2015|year=2012|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-1-4160-4210-5|page=102}} In 2017, Snodgrass and Bush published the STAG repair, an improvement on older 2-stage graft operations for proximal hypospadias when TIP cannot be done.{{cite journal | last1 = Snodgrass | first1 = W | last2 = Bush | first2 = N | year = 2017 | title = Staged Tubularized AutoGraft (STAG) repair for primary proximal hypospadias with 30-degeree or greater ventral curvature| doi = 10.1016/j.juro.2017.04.019 | pmid = 28400187 | journal = J Urol | volume = 198 | issue = 3| pages = 680–686 | s2cid = 24762140 }} Several years later, improvements on STAG led to the STAC repair.{{cite book |last1=Snodgrass |first1=Warren |title=No margin for error: a surgeon's struggle repairing hypospadias |date=2023 |publisher=OH Press}} In 2015, an analysis of all published articles regarding hypospadias since 1945 reported Snodgrass to be the most cited author.{{cite journal | last1 = O'Kelly | first1 = F | last2 = Nason | first2 = GJ | last3 = McgLoughlin | first3 = LC | last4 = Flood | first4 = HD | last5 = Thornhill | first5 = JA | date = Apr 2015 | title = A comparative bibliometric analysis of the top 150 cited papers in hypospadiology (1945-2013) | journal = J Pediatr Urol | volume = 11 | issue = 2| pages = 85.e1–85.e11 | doi = 10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.11.022 | pmid=25819379}}{{cite journal | pmid = 25819379 | doi=10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.11.022 | volume=11 | issue=2 | title=A comparative bibliometric analysis of the top 150 cited papers in hypospadiology (1945-2013) | journal=J Pediatr Urol | pages=85.e1–85.e11 | last1 = O'Kelly | first1 = F | last2 = Nason | first2 = GJ | last3 = McLoughlin | first3 = LC | last4 = Flood | first4 = HD | last5 = Thornhill | first5 = JA| year=2015 }}[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pediatric-urology/most-cited-articles/]. Elsevier.

Snodgrass has lectured and demonstrated surgical techniques internationally to pediatric urologists and surgeons. He established an annual live surgery course broadcast on the World Wide Web to teach surgeons performing hypospadias repair.[http://www.chirurgia-penisului-si-uretrei.ro/images/pdf/7531c1389b7e1f93e3a12035988955a1.pdf Live Surgery Workshop and Webinar for Hypospadias Repair]. Children's Medical Center. Retrieved April 5, 2015. Snodgrass served as editor of a pediatric urology textbook, Pediatric Urology: Evidence for Optimal Patient Management.[https://www.auanet.org/university/speaker_info.cfm?id=705 Warren T. Snodgrass, MD]. American Urological Association. In 2015, Snodgrass and his colleague Nicol Bush self-published a surgical textbook entitled Hypospadiology through a charity, Operation Happenis.{{cite web|url=http://shop.operationhappenis.org/HYPOSPADIOLOGY-OH2300.htm|title=HYPOSPADIOLOGY|website=shop.operationhappenis.org}} In 2023 Snodgrass published a memoir describing his career spent trying to improve hypospadias surgery, entitled No Margin for Error: A Surgeon's Struggle Repairing Hypospadias.

Snodgrass was awarded honorary fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.[https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/fellows-members/fellows-and-members-list.aspx?forename=Warren&surname=Snodgrass&country=USA&area=USA%2BTexas Fellows and Members]. Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Retrieved April 5, 2015. He has been designated a U.S. News & World Report Top Doctor.[http://health.usnews.com/doctors/warren-snodgrass-294973 Warren Snodgrass]. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved April 5, 2015. A review of the top 150 influential scientific publications on hypospadias from 1945 to 2013 reported Snodgrass was the most frequently cited author {{cite journal | last1 = O'Kelly | first1 = F | last2 = Nason | first2 = GJ | last3 = McLoughlin | first3 = LC | last4 = Flood | first4 = HD | last5 = Thornhill | first5 = JA | year = 2015 | title = A comparative bibliometric analysis of the top 150 cited papers in hypospadiadiology (1945-2013) | journal = J Pediatr Urol | volume = 11| issue = 2| pages = 85.e1–85.e11| pmid = 25819379 | doi=10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.11.022}}

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