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Alan B. Retik

Alan B. Retik

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Retik received a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. Following internship and one year of surgical residency at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester New York, he spent two years at the National Cancer Institute. He completed further surgical residency at New England Medical Center Hospital and trained in urology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Dr. Retik then undertook further specialization in pediatric urology at the Hospital for Sick Children in London under the tutelage of Sir David Innes Williams.
Dr. Retik began his clinical career at the Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children. In 1977 he was appointed Chief of Pediatric Urology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a position he occupied for 35 years. Thirty-five urologists have graduated from the pediatric urology fellowship and virtually all are in academic medicine, eight being department or division chairman and one a CEO of a major children’s hospital.