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Office
1515 Holcombe Blvd
Houston, TX 77030Phone+1 713-792-3250
Summary
- Dr. Ward is a clinical scientist with exclusive focus on the management of prostate and testicular cancers. He is recognized as one of the early thought leaders in the prostate cancer imaging and focal therapy. His contributions laid the ground work that has helped this approach gain recognition as an acceptable therapeutic strategy for select patients with prostate cancer. He helped develop ablative techniques using variety of energy and imaging techniques including the early studies of interstitial laser ablation, focal cryotherapy and high-intensity focused ultrasound; the later work leading to the FDA US approval. He is equally involved in development of urine and blood bio-markers of prostate cancer and now image guided targeted prostate biopsy. As a busy clinician, Dr. Ward not only pioneered the MD Anderson Cancer Center Prostate cancer imaging and focal therapy program while performing 200+ robotic assisted prostatectomies a year, but he also developed the MD Anderson technique of robotic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection and has now expanded this surgery into both the post-chemotherapy setting and as primary treatment for metastatic seminoma.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Ward is a Graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown Medical School. He received his urologic oncology training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota before completing a career with the US Navy. He joined the faculty at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2006.
Education & Training
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Fellowship, Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery, 2001 - 2003
- Naval Medical Center (San Diego)Residency, Urology, 1993 - 1998
- Naval Medical Center (San Diego)Internship, Transitional Year, 1991 - 1992
- Georgetown University School of MedicineClass of 1991
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 1992 - Present
- FL State Medical License 2021 - Present
- TX State Medical License 2006 - 2026
- AZ State Medical License 2023 - 2025
- MS State Medical License 2023 - 2025
- OK State Medical License 2020 - 2025
- WA State Medical License 2023 - 2025
- American Board of Urology Urology
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Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Clinical Trials
- Prostate Conformal Cryotherapy Start of enrollment: 2009 Apr 06
- A Registry of Sipuleucel-T Therapy in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer Start of enrollment: 2011 Jan 27
- Efficacy and Safety Study of TOOKAD® Soluble for Localised Prostate Cancer Compared to Active Surveillance. Start of enrollment: 2011 Feb 01
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 422 citationsVISTA is an inhibitory immune checkpoint that is increased after ipilimumab therapy in patients with prostate cancerJianjun Gao, John F. Ward, Curtis A. Pettaway, Lewis Zhichang Shi, Sumit K. Subudhi
Nature Medicine. 2017-03-27 - 224 citationsVariability of the positive predictive value of PI-RADS for prostate MRI across 26 centers: Experience of the society of abdominal radiology prostate cancer disease-fo...Antonio C. Westphalen, Charles E. McCulloch, Jordan Anaokar, Sandeep Arora, Nimrod S. Barashi
Radiology. 2020-04-21 - 5 citationsThe Association of Periprostatic Fat and Grade Group Progression in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer on Active SurveillanceJustin R. Gregg, Devaki Shilpa Surasi, Alexandria Childs, Nicholas Moll, John F. Ward
The Journal of Urology. 2021-01-01
Other
- Initial management of regionally localized intermediate and high risk prostate cancerWard JF, Davis B, Vogelzang N
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/initial-management-of-regionally-localized-intermediate-and-high-ri
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-02-25 - Pathologic stage T3 and margin positive prostate cancerWard JF, Davis B, Vogelzang N
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/pathologic-stage-t3-and-margin-positive-prostate-cancer
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-01-03
Press Mentions
- Focal Therapy for Prostate Ca: Ready for Prime Time?October 5th, 2018
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