Dr. Hamidreza Abdi
MD. FEBU. FRSCS
Urologist
Procedures & Services:
— Urology Consult
— Cystoscopy
— Circumcision
— REZUM for Prostate
— Male Genitalia Cosmetics
— Testicular Biopsy
Work Experience
July 2024- Present | Community Urologist. Department of surgery, Division of Urology, William- Osler Health System, Brampton |
Ontario, Canada |
July 2023- July 2024 | Head of Urology, Department of surgery, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance- Chatham | Ontario, Canada |
July 2020- present | Community Urologist ,
-Chatham-Kent Health Alliance- Chatham, |
Ontario, Canada |
2008-2012 | .Urology Consultant, Department of urology. Shahid Beheshti Hospital Mazandaran University. |
Noshahr, Iran |
2009-2012 | Director of young urologist committee, Iranian Urology Association | Tehran, Iran |
2007 | Director of Iranian Urology Resident Committee | Tehran, Iran |
2002-2003 | Research assistant. Sport medicine Centre, Tehran University of Medical Science. |
Tehran, Iran |
2000-2002 | Accident and emergency first call physician. Alvand Hospital (Part time) |
Tehran, Iran |
1999-2002 | Tutor of mathematics | Tehran, Iran |
2000 | Member of residency-program accreditation team. Iranian Health Ministry. Tehran, Iran |
Tehran, Iran |
EDUCATION
1993-2000 | Medical Degree. Tehran University of Medical Science (GPA: 18.23 out of 20)Title of thesis: Clinical and para clinical manifestation of Addison disease. |
Tehran, Iran |
2003-2008 | Urology residency training, Shaheed Beheshti Medical University
Title of Thesis: The comparison between open prostatectomy and TURP in medium sized BPH. |
Tehran, Iran |
Sep 2008 | European Urology Residency Educational Program (EUREP course) | Prague. Czech Republic |
May-July 2012 | Visiting urology fellow, BC Children Hospital | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
Jan 2013-July 2014 | Post Doc Fellowship, Vancouver Prostate Centre. The University of British Columbia. |
Vancouver, BC, Canada |
July 2014 – July 2015 | General Urology Clinical Fellowship, Department of Urological sciences, Vancouver Prostate Centre. The University of British Columbia |
Vancouver, BC, Canada |
July 2015 – 2020 | Urology Residency training, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Ottawa |
Ottawa, Ontario |
Honors/ Awards
2018 | Excellent reviewer recognized by Publons |
2017 | Best Reviewer of the year- Elsevier |
2017 | Best reviewer of the issue- Urology Journal Oct 2017 |
2014 | The best clinical research award, Lorne D. Sullivan Lectureship and research day, UBC, Vancouver |
2011 | Urology fellowship scholarship sponsored by Japanese Urology Association- Selected among 100 Asian urologist applicants. |
2008 | Second grade of excellence in Iranian National Board Exam |
2008 | Passed European Urology board exam. (Written score: 8, oral score: 9 out of 9) |
2000 | Second grade of excellence-Silver medal award- in medical school, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran. |
1993 | Stood at 27th rank in the National Medical University Entrance Exam among more than 1 million high school student applicants. Tehran, Iran |
Research
–PUBLISHED PAPERS: Citations: 1256 http://scholar.google.ca
https://www.pubfacts.com/author/Hamidreza+Abdi
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=hamidreza+abdi
ORCiD: 0000-0001-7291-6139
1- Radiation-based Therapy for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: Contemporary Outcomes Across Tertiary Centers. Kool R, Marcq G, Breau RH, Black PC, Shayegan B, Kim M, Busca I, Abdi H, Dawidek MT, Uy M, Fervaha G, Cury FL, Alimohamed NS, Izawa JI, Jeldres C, Rendon R, Siemens DR, Kulkarni GS, Kassouf W. Eur Urol Oncol. 2023 Mar 31:S2588- 9311(23)00068-8. doi: 10.1016/j.euo.2023.03.004. Online ahead of print.PMID: 37005214
2- Successful treatment of recurrent small cell carcinoma of urinary bladder with pembrolizumab. Hatayama T, Hayashi T, Matsuzaki S, Masumoto H, Yanai H, Abdi H, Teishima J, Hasegawa Y.IJU Case Rep. 2020 Aug 5;3(6):252-256.
3- Urinary Viral Shedding of COVID-19 and its Clinical Associations: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies. Kashi AH, De la Rosette J, Amini E, Abdi H, Fallah-Karkan M, Vaezjalali M.Urol J. 2020 Sep 5;17(5):433-441.
4- Refusal of surgery: A case-based review of ethical and legal principles behind informed consent in Canada. Garas SN, Witherspoon L, Lukich N, Abdi H, Breau RH.Can Urol Assoc J. 2021 Feb;15(2):67-69.
5- Images – Adenomatoid tumor of testis, concerning for malignancy after ultrasound. Nham E, Abdi H, Belanger EC, Mahoney J.Can Urol Assoc J. 2020 Sep;14(9):E471-E473.
6- Is it time to rethink how we page physicians? Understanding paging patterns in a tertiary care hospital. Witherspoon L, Nham E, Abdi H, Dergham A, Skinner T, Oake JS, Watterson J, Lavallée LT.BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Dec 23;19(1):992.
7- Magnetic resonance imaging/transrectal ultrasonography fusion targeted prostate biopsy finds more significant prostate cancer in biopsy-naïve Japanese men compared with the standard biopsy. Fujii S, Hayashi T, Honda Y, Terada H, Akita R, Kitamura N, Ueda E, Han X, Ueno T, Miyamoto S, Kitano H, Inoue S, Teishima J, Abdi H, Awai K, Takeshima Y, Sentani K, Yasui W, Matsubara A.Int J Urol. 2020 Feb;27(2):140-146.
8- Clinical practice patterns of immediate intravesical chemotherapy following transurethral resection of bladder tumour in Canada. Abdi H, Winter R, Rowe NE. CUAJ, Can Urol Assoc J. 2019; 13(2Suppl2): S11–S
9- Female radical cystectomy patients have a higher risk of surgical site infections. Abdi H, Elzayat E, Cagiannos I, Lavallée LT, Cnossen S, Flaman AS, Mallick R, Morash C, Breau RH. Urol Oncol. 2018 Sep; 36(9):4001-4005.
10- NOTCH2-HEY1 axis promotes tumor progression in bladder cancer through cell cycle progression and dedifferentiation. Tetsutaro H, Goriki A, Zarni Oo H, Jaeger W, Abdi H, Seiler R, Todenhofer T, Awrey S, Altamirano-Dimas M, Fazli L, Matsubara A, Black PC. Int. J Urol. 2018: 25, 197
11- Natural history of prostatic lesions on serial multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging. Ghavimi S, Abdi H, Waterhouse J, Savdie R, Chang S, Harris A, Machan L, Gleave ME, So A, Goldenberg L, Black PC. Can Urol Assoc J. 2018 Aug; 12(8):270-275.
12- Preoperative risk classification using neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and hydronephrosis for upper tract urothelial carcinoma. Kohada Y, Hayashi T, Goto K, Kobatake K, Abdi H, Honda Y, Sentani K, Inoue S, Teishima J, Awai K, Yasui W, Matsubara A. Jpn J Clin Oncol. 2018 Sep 1; 48(9):841-850.
13- Immunohistochemical classification using urothelial differentiation markers can stratify prognosis in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer. Hayashi T, Sentani K, Goto K, Zarni Oo H, Abdi H, Mutaguchi K, Shinmei S, Inoue S, Teishima J, Yasui W, Black PC, Matsubara A. J Urol.199 (4), e1037.
14- Incidence, characteristics, and implications of thrombo-embolic events in patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder undergoing neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Wilhelmina CM Duivenvoorden, Sia Daneshmand, Daniel Canter, Yair Lotan, Peter Black, Abdi H, Bas van Rhijn, Elies Fransen van der Putte, Peter Boström, Ilmari Koskinen, Piotr Zareba, Janet Kukreja, Wassim Kassouf, and Jehonathan H Pinthus. J Urol. 2016 Dec; 196(6):1627-1633.
15- Microfluidic enrichment of circulating tumor cells in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer. Todenhöfer T, Park ES, Duffy S, Deng X, Jin C, Abdi H, Ma H, Black PC. Urol Oncol. Nov 2016; 34(11):483.e9-483.e16.
16- Continuous Flow Deformability-Based Separation of Circulating Tumor Cells Using Microfluidic Ratchets. Park ES, Jin C, Guo Q, Ang RR, Duffy SP, Matthews K, Azad A, Abdi H, Todenhöfer T, Bazov J, Chi KN, Black PC, Ma H. Small. 2016 Apr 13;12(14):1909-19.
17- Re: Daniel P. Nguyen, Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh, Xian Wu, et al. Recurrence Patterns After Open and Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer. Pourmalek F, Abdi H, Black PC. Eur Urol. 2016 Mar; 69(3):e35.
18- Are continent urinary diversions feasible at the time of radical cystectomy after pelvic radiotherapy? Analysis of a large retrospective multicenter series.F Pisano, M Rink, A Atiquallah, M Fish, S Joniau, M Albersen, A Battaglia, P Destefanis, R Colombo, A Briganti, F Pellucchi, G Burgio, B Van Rhijn, EEF Van De Putte, S Esquena, J Palou, M Babjuk, HM Fritsche, R Mayr, P Albers, G Niegisch, A De La Taille, A Masson-Lecomte, M Roupret, T Cai, A Witjes, M Bruins, J Baniel, R Mano, M Brausi, A Lapini, F Sessa, J Irani, A Stenzl, G Gakis, J Karnes, F Zattoni, D Scherr, P O’Malley, S Shariat, P Black, Abdi H,, V Matveev, M Peters, O
Samuseva, D Parekh, M Gonzalgo, P Gontero.2016. Eur Urol Supplements. (3)15. e1016, e1016a.
19- Balancing risk and benefit of extended pelvic lymph node dissection in patients undergoing radical cystectomy. Abdi H, Pourmalek F,·Gleave ME. So AI, Black PC. World J Urol. 2016 Jan; 34(1):41-8.
20- Biomechanically Constrained Surface Registration: Application to MR-TRUS Fusion for Prostate Interventions. Khallaghi S, Sanchez CA, Rasoulian A, Sun Y, Imani F, Khojaste A, Goksel O, Romagnoli C, Abdi H, Chang S, Mousavi P, Fenster A, Ward A, Fels S, Abolmaesumi P. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2015 Nov;34(11):2404-14.
21-Statistical Biomechanical Surface Registration: Application to MR-TRUS Fusion for Prostate Interventions. Khallaghi S, Sanchez CA, Rasoulian A, Nouranian S, Romagnoli C, Abdi H, Chang SD, Black PC, Goldenberg L, Morris WJ, Spadinger I, Fenster A, Ward A, Fels S, Abolmaesumi P. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2015 Dec;34(12):2535-2549.
22- A 2D-3D Registration Framework for Freehand TRUS-Guided Prostate Biopsy. Khallaghi S, Sánchez C.A, Nouranian S, Sojoudi S, Chang S.D, Abdi H, Machan L, Harris AC, Black P, Gleave M, Goldenberg L, Fels S, Abolmaesumi P. MICCAI (2) 2015: 272-279
23- Separation of Circulating Tumor Cells from Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients using Resettable Cell Traps. Qin X, Park S, Duffy S.P, Matthews K, Ang R.R, Todenhöfer T, Abdi H, Azad A, Bazov J, Chi K.N, Black PC, Ma H. Lab Chip. 2015 May 21;15(10):2278-86.
24- Enrichment of Circulating Tumor Cells in patients with localized Prostate Cancer using a microfuidic device. Todenhöfer T, Park S, Abdi H, Li A, Ross R, Deng X, Jin C, Duffy S, Gleave ME, Ma H, Black PC. J Urol. 2015; 193(4):e3.
25- The role of multi-parametric MRI in the management of patients on active surveillance for prostate cancer. Abdi H , Walshe T, Pourmalek F, Aning J, Zargar H, Harris AC, Chang SD, So AI, Gleave ME, Machan L, Goldenberg SL, Black PC. Urology. 2015 Feb;85(2):423-8.
26- Multi-parametric MRI-guided biopsy for the detection of prostate cancer in patients with prior negative biopsies. Abdi H , Walshe T, Zargar H , Pourmalek F, Chang SD, Gleave ME , Harris AC, So AI, Goldenberg SL, Machan L, Black PC. Urol Oncol. 2015 Apr;33(4):165.e1-7.
27- Evolving use of multi parametric MRI in prostate cancer detection. Abdi H, Black PC. This Changed My Practice, UBC CPD, May 2015.
28- Correlation between multi-parametric MRI findings and detection of prostate cancer in transrectal MR-guided biopsies. Walshe T, H Abdi, Pourmalek F, Chang SD, Gleave ME , Harris AC, So AI, Goldenberg SL, Machan L, Black PC. Presented at RSNA 2014.
29- VURD Syndrome-Does it Really Preserve Long-Term Renal Function? Hoag NA, Macneily AE, Abdi H, Figueroa V, Afshar K.J Urol. 2014 May; 191(5):1523-6
30- Prostate-specific Antigen Testing: Men’s Responses to 2012 Recommendation Against Screening: National Evidence on the Use of Shared Decision Making in Prostate-specific Antigen Screening. Abdi H, Black P. Urology. 2014 Jan; 83(1):4-5.
31- Predictive factors for prostatic involvement by transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Tabibi A, Simforoosh N, Parvin M, Abdi H, Javaherforooshzadeh A, Farrokhi F, Soltani MH. Urol J. 2011 Winter;8(1):43-7.
32- Open Prostatectomy Versus Transurethral Resection of the Prostate, Where Are We Standing in the New Era? A Randomized Controlled Trial. Simforoosh N, Abdi H, Kashi AH, Zare S, Tabibi A, Danesh A, Basiri A, Ziaee SAM. Urol J. 2010 Autumn; 7(4):29-36.
33-.Erectile Function and Dysfunction Following Low Flow Priapism: A comparison of Distal and Proximal Shunts. Tabibi A, Abdi H, Mahmoudnejad N. Urol J. 2010 Summer; 7(3):174-7.
34- Lack of visual endoscopic appearance of ureteropelvic urothelial cancer; Is it a deterrence for nephroureterectomy? A case study and literature review. Simforoosh N, Ghohestani SM, Abdi H, Soltani M,Basiri A.J Pak Med Assoc. 2010 March, 60(3):230-2.
35- Transperitoneal laparoscopic partial nephrectomy using a new technique. A case report. Nouralizadeh A, Ziaee SA, Basiri A, Simforoosh N, Abdi H, Mahmoudnejad N, Kashi AH. Urol J. 2009 Summer;6(3):176-81.
36- Renal cell carcinoma in presacral pelvic kidney. A case report. Mahmoudnejad N, Danesh AK, Abdi H. J Pak Med Assoc. 2009 Jul;59(7):482-3.
37- Imperforate hymen and urinary retention in a newborn girl. A case report. Sharifiaghdas F, Abdi H, Pakmanesh H, Eslami N. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2009 Feb;22(1):49-51.
38- A study of febrile versus afebrile patients after percutaneous nephrolithotomy regarding bacterial etiologic factors through blood and urine cultures and 16S rRNA detection in serum. Ziaee SAM, Kazemi B, Moghaddam SM, Arianpoor A, Abdi H, Pakmanesh H, Pour EI. J Endourol.2008 Dec; 22(12):2717-21.
39- Imaging in benign prostatic hyperplasia: what is new? Review Article. Abdi H, Kazzazi A, Bazargani ST, Djavan B, Telegrafi S. Curr Opin Urol. 2013 Jan;23(1):11-6
40- Laparoscopic management of varicocele using bipolar cautery versus open high ligation technique, a RCT. Simforoosh N, Ziaee SAM, Behjati S, Beygi FM, Arianpour A, Abdi H, laparoendoscopic Adv surg Tech A. 2007 Dec: 17(6):743-7
41- Bowel preparation versus no preparation before ileal urinary diversion. A Clinical Trial. Tabibi A., Simforoosh N, Basiri A, Ezzatnejad M, Abdi H , Farrokhi F. Urology 2007 Oct; 7064): 654-8.
42- Correlation between size of RCC and its grade, stage and histological subtype. Tabibi A, Parvian M, Abdi H , Bashtar R, Zamani N, Abadpour B. Urol J. 2007 Winter;4(1):10-3
43- Role of laparoscopic nephrectomy for management of symptomatic nephrogenichypertension. Basiri A, Simforoosh N, Abdi H , Shahrokhi SS, Hosseini
Moghadam SM. Urology 2007 Sep; 70(3): 427-30 44- Laparoscopic removal of a migrated intrauterine device. Sharifiaghdas F, MohammadAli
Beygi FM, Abdi H. Urol J. 2007 summer; 4(3): 177-9.
45- Laparoscopic reimplantation for single system ectopic ureter. A case report. Basiri A, MohammadAli Beygi FM, Abdi H, Mahmoudnejad N, Urol J. 2007 summer; 4(3):174- 6.
46- Laparoscopic management of ureteral stone: a report of 123 cases. Simforoosh N, Basiri A, Danesh AK, Sharifiaghdas F, Ziaee SAM, Tabibi A, Abdi H , Farrokhi F. Urol J. 2007 summer; 4(3): 138-41.
47- Predication of prostate involvement by transitional cell carcinoma of bladder using pathologic Characteristic of the bladder tumor. Tabibi A, Simforoosh N, Parvin M, Abadpour B, Abdi H , Khafri S. Urol J. 2006 summer; 3(3) 145-9
48- Predication of successful sperm retrieval in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia. Ziaee SAM, Ezzatnejad M, Nowroozi M, Jamshidian H, Abdi H , Hosseini Moghadam SM. Urol J. 2006 spring; 3(2): 92- 6
49-Accurate Cut-off Point for Free to Total Prostate-Specific Antigen Ratio Used to Improve Differentiation of Prostate Cancer from Benign Prostate Hyperplasia in Iranian Population. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Abdi H. Urol J. 2010 summer; 7(2):104
50-Optimization of androgen deprivation therapy- Newer agent have entered clinical practice. Abdi H, Black PC. SIU newsletter.2014 June. 4-5.
51- Occupational state of Iranian Urologist graduated with recent 10 years. Aliasgari M, Hosseini J, Abdi H , Soori H-, IUA Journal. In Farsi.
52- Iranian urologists’ view point on open and transurethral prostatectomy. Abdi H, Tabibi A-IUA Journal. In Farsi.
53- Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte ratio predicts adverse outcome in patients with High grade T1 bladder cancer undergoing radical cystectomy. S. Bidnur, J. Ory, Abdi H, M.E. Gleave, A.I. So, F. Pourmalek, P.C. Black. AUA-NWSU.2015.
54-Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: A seven-year experience. Locke J, Abdi H, Pourmalek F, Dorraj N,Tran H,Goldenberg SL. AUA-NWSU.2015.
55- Evaluation of MRI-Ultrasound fusion biopsy versus systematic transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy employing new PIRADS scoring. Abulaiti Yasenjiang, R Savdie, E Pang, Abdi H, T Walshe, A Harris, L Goldenberg, S Chang, P Black. AUA-NWSU.2015
56- Unusual presentation and progression of emphysematous pyelonephritis. www.uropractice.com/en/CasePresentation/Default.aspx?sli=259
Books
Author:
2011 | Urology in practice. UNRC | Tehran, Iran |
2010 | General Urology. SMBU | Tehran, Iran |
2006 | Urology flash cards for residency exam. Rahpoian sharif | Tehran, Iran |
2006 | Prostate. Directory of Health, family and population of Iranian Health ministry | Tehran, Iran |
2003 | Blue prints of Danforth’s obstetrics & gynecology for medical school exams. MIR. | Tehran, Iran |
2003 | Transport of the injured athletes. Iranian national sport medicine federation | Tehran, Iran |
2003 | Blue prints of minor topics for medical school exams. MIR | Tehran, Iran |
Translator:
2008 | Nelson textbook of Pediatrics. Urology section. Hayan | Tehran, Iran |