Philipp Dahm

Philipp Dahm is currently Professor of Urology at the University of Minnesota and Director of Research and Education for Surgical Services at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Health Care System. Dr. Dahm completed his residency training at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where he subsequently joined the faculty and completed a Masters of Health Sciences in Clinical Research. From 2006 – 2014 he was Associate and then Full Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, Florida, as well as in the later years, Residency Program Director.

Dr. Dahm has a longstanding interest in evidence-based clinical practice, which he seeks to promote through education, research and knowledge translation. He has served as course director for the evidence-based medicine (EBM) course for graduate medical education at UF and was also a member of the American Board of Urology/American Urological Association (AUA) committee for the development of milestones for urology residency training. He has served as faculty member of renown workshops on how to teach EBM at Duke University, McMaster University and Oxford University. He is the initiator of the Users’ Guide to the Urological Literature (8 articles in Journal of Urology) as well as the Evidence-Based Urology in Practice series (15 articles published in BJU International) that translate EBM concepts into urology-relevant examples and remain core resources for any urologist interested in learning more about EBM. His research focus lies in systematic reviews and meta-analysis, as well as related methodological research and guideline development and he has published extensively on the methodological reporting quality of urological research.

Dr. Dahm serves as Coordinating Editor for Cochrane Urology (http://urology.cochrane.org/) for the international Cochrane Collaboration that is recognized for the development of high quality systematic reviews to guide patients, providers and policy-makers. He is also a longstanding member of the GRADE Working Group (http://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/) and a founding member of the US GRADE Network (http://us.gradeworkinggroup.org/), which is an organization that has developed a framework for rating the quality of evidence and moving from evidence to decisions that is used by over 100 organizations worldwide and is finding increasing appeal by guideline developers in urology.

Dr. Dahm has previously served on the AUA Practice Guideline Committee and provides methodological support for guideline developing organizations such as the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the Canadian Urological Association (CUA). Dr. Dahm is also a Steering Group Member of the IDEAL Collaboration (http://www.ideal-collaboration.net/) that strives to improve the evidentiary standards for surgical research.