Hooman Djaladat MD

Hooman Djaladat, MD, MS, is a professor of clinical urology, at the USC Institute of Urology. Dr. Djaladat went to medical school at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran. He was in the top 1% of his class and did a urology residency in Sina Hospital, one of the well-known urology centers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Before finishing his residency, Dr. Djaladat did training in endo-Uro-oncology at Medway Hospital, affiliated with the University College of London in the United Kingdom.

In 2004, Dr. Djaladat started his academic career in urology as an assistant professor of Urology. From 2007 to 2009, he did his endourology and laparoscopy, clinical fellowship, at Labbafinejad Medical Center, which is one of the most prestigious centers pioneering modern urology in the Middle East. Subsequently, he moved to the United States and completed his SUO-accredited urologic oncology fellowship at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 2012 and immediately joined the USC Institute of Urology.

Dr. Djaladat has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters; some of them are the results of impressive surgical clinical trials. He has also been selected as a reviewer for many urology journals. Dr. Djaladat also invented a new Foley catheter for prostatectomy patients, which has been filed with the US Patent and Trade Organization.