Doctor Polascik is Professor in the Duke Cancer Institute, Department of Surgery, at Duke University. Dr. Polascik trained at Johns Hopkins, and did an oncology Fellowship under Alan W. Partin MD Ph.D. He joined Duke in 1998 and has practice and research interest in prostate and kidney cancers. He is the founder and Co-Director of the International Symposium on Focal Therapy and Imaging of Prostate and Kidney Cancer that began at Duke in 2008. He is the director of the Society of Urlogic Oncology program and also the Genitourinary Program on Focal Therapy at the Duke Cancer Institute, and author of over 250 manuscripts.