Roger Satterthwaite, M.D.

South Pasadena, CA
Urology / Urologic Oncology

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Medical School: Columbia University
Board Certification: Urology

 

 

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SUMMARY:
Dr. Roger Satterthwaite MD, MPH joined the California Cancer Specialists in 2006. An assistant clinical professor of Urology and Urologic Oncology at the City of Hope in Duarte and medical staff member at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Dr. Satterthwaite holds clinic in Duarte, Pasadena, Santa Clarita and Lancaster.

Dr. Satterthwaite began his career as a nineteen year old medical specialist in the US Army, serving as a hospital orderly, paratrooper and mountain infantry line medic. Dr. Satterthwaite subsequently completed a bachelors degree in History at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1987 then gained his Masters of Public Health and Medical Degree at Columbia University in New York City, New York in 1991. His general surgery and urology training were completed at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1997. He then served six years in the US Air Force, and two more years in private practice in Hawaii before completing a fellowship in urology and urologic oncology at the City of Hope Medical Center in 2006. During his time in the Air Force, Dr. Satterthwaite was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served as chief of urology at two hospitals and as chief of surgical specialties at one hospital.

Dr. Satterthwaite’s primary clinical and research interests involve robotic and laparoscopic surgical treatment of urologic malignancies, but he has also performed thousands of endoscopic procedures, as well as hundreds of vasectomies. He has published peer reviewed articles in the transplantation literature.

Dr. Satterthwaite is a member of the American Urology Association as well as Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors without Borders. He has lived abroad in England, Costa Rica and El Salvador as well as studying in Austria and Honduras. Dr. Satterthwaite speaks Spanish and German.

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