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Larissa Rodriguez

Larissa Rodriguez

🇺🇸 United States🏥 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Mentored by
Shlomo Raz

Training and career​

  • Current position Chair of urology, Weill Cornell Medicine; urologist-in-chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital1
  • Medical school Stanford University School of Medicine2
  • Residency Urology, Stanford University2
  • Fellowship Urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, UCLA, with Shlomo Raz2

Contributions​

  • Distal urethral polypropylene sling outcomes (2003). Prospectively evaluated stress incontinence outcomes after distal urethral polypropylene sling surgery using patient-reported symptoms, bother, and quality of life.3
  • Transvaginal paravaginal repair for high-grade cystocele (2005). Described a transvaginal paravaginal repair addressing central and lateral cystocele defects with a concomitant suburethral sling.4
  • Adipose-derived cells for lower urinary tract reconstruction (2005). Coauthored an animal pilot study showing survival and smooth-muscle incorporation of human adipose-derived cells injected into bladder and urethra.5
  • MAPP research on urologic chronic pelvic pain (2014). Served as an investigator in the NIH-funded MAPP network studying bladder pain and other urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes.6

Cited on WARWIKI

2 publications with Larissa Rodriguez 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. Eilber KS, Kavaler E, Rodríguez LV, Rosenblum N, Raz S. "Ten-Year Experience With Transvaginal Vesicovaginal Fistula Repair Using Tissue Interposition." J Urol. 2003;169(3):1033–1036. doi
    Cited on: Martius Flap · Peritoneal Flap · Vesicovaginal Fistula
  2. Anger JT, Rodríguez LV, Wang Q, et al. Racial disparities in the surgical management of stress incontinence among female Medicare beneficiaries. J Urol. 2007;177(5):1846-50. doi
    Cited on: The Clinical Operator Mindset

Footnotes​

  1. Fostering Excellence and Innovation. Urology. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. Larissa Rodriguez. Urology. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. RODRÍGUEZ LV, RAZ S. "Prospective Analysis Of Patients Treated With A Distal Urethral Polypropylene Sling For Symptoms Of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Surgical Outcome And Satisfaction Determined By Patient Driven Questionnaires." Journal of Urology. 2003;170(3):857–863. doi:10.1097/01.ju.0000083327.26420.99 ↩

  4. Rodríguez LV, Bukkapatnam R, Shah SM, et al. "Transvaginal paravaginal repair of high-grade cystocele central and lateral defects with concomitant suburethral sling: Report of early results, outcomes, and patient satisfaction with a new technique." Urology. 2005;66(5):57–65. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2005.06.126 ↩

  5. JACK GS, ALMEIDA FG, ZHANG R, et al. "PROCESSED LIPOASPIRATE CELLS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING OF THE LOWER URINARY TRACT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE AND BLADDER RECONSTRUCTION." Journal of Urology. 2005;174(5):2041–2045. doi:10.1097/01.ju.0000176489.96993.84 ↩

  6. Clemens JQ, Mullins C, Kusek JW, et al. "The MAPP research network: a novel study of urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes." BMC Urol. 2014;14(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2490-14-57 ↩