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Alfred Bent

Alfred Bent

🇨🇦 Canada
Mentored by · fellowship 1982
Donald Ostergard

Training and career​

  • Positions Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Dalhousie University; head of its gynecology division (as of 2010); family medicine practice, Wolfville1
  • Medical school Dalhousie medical school (graduated 1973)1
  • Residency Halifax1
  • Fellowship Urogynecology, Long Beach, California (1981–1982; one year)1
  • Leadership President, American Urogynecologic Society (1994–1995)2

Known for​

  • Edited AUGS’s pelvic medicine journal (2010). During Bent’s editorship, the journal became AUGS’s official journal and was renamed Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery.3

Biography​

Alfred E. Bent was a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Dalhousie University and head of its gynecology division as of 2010.1 Bent graduated from Dalhousie medical school in 1973 and returned to Halifax for residency after practicing family medicine in Wolfville.1 Bent completed a one-year urogynecology fellowship in Long Beach, California, in 1981–1982.1 Bent served as president of the American Urogynecologic Society in 1994–1995.2

Contributions​

Bent's confirmed cited work covers treatments for female stress or mixed urinary incontinence, including fascia lata slings, urethral bulking with ear chondrocytes or collagen, and duloxetine. Bent also coauthored a cystourethroscopy textbook chapter.45678

Cited on WARWIKI

5 publications with Alfred Bent as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Cundiff GW, Bent AE. Cystourethroscopy. In: Baggish MS, Karram MM, eds. Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynecologic Surgery. 5th ed. Elsevier; 2021:1373-1406.
    Cited on: Endoscopy — Cystoscopy & Ureteroscopy
  2. Bent AE, Gousse AE, Hendrix SL, et al. "Duloxetine compared with placebo for the treatment of women with mixed urinary incontinence." Neurourol Urodyn. 2008;27(3):212-221. doi
    Cited on: Mixed Urinary Incontinence
  3. McBride AW, Ellerkmann RM, Bent AE, Melick CF. "Comparison of long-term outcomes of autologous fascia lata slings with Suspend Tutoplast fascia lata allograft slings for stress incontinence." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005;192(5):1677–81. doi
    Cited on: Tutoplast-Processed Allografts
  4. Bent AE, Foote J, Siegel S, Faerber G, Chao R, Gormley EA. Collagen Implant for Treating Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women With Urethral Hypermobility. The Journal of Urology. 2001;166(4):1354-1357. PubMed.
    Cited on: Contigen — Glutaraldehyde Cross-Linked Bovine Collagen
  5. Bent AE, Tutrone RT, McLennan MT, et al. Treatment of Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency Using Autologous Ear Chondrocytes as a Bulking Agent. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2001;20(2):157-165. PubMed.
    Cited on: Autologous Chondrocyte Injection — Historical Bulking Research

Footnotes​

  1. cdn.dal.ca (vox spring10). Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Past Presidents. AUGS. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  3. FPMRS News. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. McBride AW, Ellerkmann RM, Bent AE, Melick CF. "Comparison of long-term outcomes of autologous fascia lata slings with Suspend Tutoplast fascia lata allograft slings for stress incontinence." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005;192(5):1677–81. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2005.01.078 ↩

  5. Bent AE, Tutrone RT, McLennan MT, et al. Treatment of Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency Using Autologous Ear Chondrocytes as a Bulking Agent. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2001;20(2):157-165. PubMed. ↩

  6. Bent AE, Foote J, Siegel S, Faerber G, Chao R, Gormley EA. Collagen Implant for Treating Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women With Urethral Hypermobility. The Journal of Urology. 2001;166(4):1354-1357. PubMed. ↩

  7. Cundiff GW, Bent AE. Cystourethroscopy. In: Baggish MS, Karram MM, eds. Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynecologic Surgery. 5th ed. Elsevier; 2021:1373-1406. ↩

  8. Bent AE, Gousse AE, Hendrix SL, et al. "Duloxetine compared with placebo for the treatment of women with mixed urinary incontinence." Neurourol Urodyn. 2008;27(3):212-221. doi:10.1002/nau.20471 ↩