Top experts by indication / Oncology
Most active experts in Bladder / Urothelial Cancer
2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026
233 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Bladder / Urothelial Cancer. The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.
Most registered trials
Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 192 of the 233 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.
| # | Expert | trials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew GalskyTisch Cancer Institute, NY | 17 trials |
| 2 | Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 14 trials |
| 3 | Guru SonpavdeAdventHealth Cancer Institute, FL | 6 trials |
| 4 | Petros GrivasFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA | 6 trials |
| 5 | Leonard ApplemanUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA | 6 trials |
| 6 | Matthew MilowskyNY | 5 trials |
| 7 | Mamta ParikhCA | 5 trials |
| 8 | Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 5 trials |
| 9 | Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 5 trials |
| 10 | Robert DreicerUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA | 5 trials |
| 11 | Cora SternbergCornell University, NY | 5 trials |
| 12 | Shahrokh ShariatMedical University of Vienna, NY | 4 trials |
| 13 | Samuel FuntMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 4 trials |
| 14 | Jonathan RosenbergMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 4 trials |
| 15 | Matthew CampbellTX | 3 trials |
| 16 | Walter StadlerCity of Hope, IL | 3 trials |
| 17 | David QuinnCA | 3 trials |
| 18 | Chong-Xian PanMA | 3 trials |
| 19 | David SmithWA | 3 trials |
| 20 | Bruce RothMO | 3 trials |
| 21 | Bradley McGregorMA | 3 trials |
| 22 | Joaquim BellmuntDana-Farber Cancer Institute | 3 trials |
| 23 | David HongThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 3 trials |
| 24 | Neal ShoreCarolina Urologic Research Center, SC | 3 trials |
| 25 | Jingsong ZhangMoffitt Cancer Center, FL | 3 trials |
Most cited
Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 38 of the 233 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.
| # | Expert | citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toni ChoueiriDana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA | 128,964 citations |
| 2 | Shahrokh ShariatMedical University of Vienna, NY | 100,789 citations |
| 3 | Brian RiniVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN | 78,561 citations |
| 4 | Cora SternbergCornell University, NY | 73,928 citations |
| 5 | Joaquim BellmuntDana-Farber Cancer Institute | 67,263 citations |
| 6 | Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 52,375 citations |
| 7 | Jonathan RosenbergMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 51,894 citations |
| 8 | Elizabeth PlimackFox Chase Cancer Center, PA | 49,784 citations |
| 9 | David HongThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 47,734 citations |
| 10 | Neal ShoreCarolina Urologic Research Center, SC | 46,560 citations |
| 11 | Hedy KindlerUniversity of Chicago, IL | 39,455 citations |
| 12 | Robert DreicerUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA | 38,325 citations |
| 13 | Matthew GalskyTisch Cancer Institute, NY | 35,299 citations |
| 14 | Lawrence FongFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA | 35,279 citations |
| 15 | Sarina Piha-PaulThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 32,741 citations |
| 16 | Alexander SpiraVirginia Cancer Specialists, VA | 29,600 citations |
| 17 | Guru SonpavdeAdventHealth Cancer Institute, FL | 27,746 citations |
| 18 | Primo LaraUniversity of California, Davis, CA | 26,914 citations |
| 19 | Petros GrivasFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA | 25,258 citations |
| 20 | Steven AlbertsMayo Clinic, MN | 24,526 citations |
| 21 | Milind JavleThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 22,987 citations |
| 22 | Anthony El-KhoueiryUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA | 22,591 citations |
| 23 | Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 20,202 citations |
| 24 | Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 18,563 citations |
| 25 | Rachna ShroffUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ | 17,357 citations |
Most NIH awards
NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 30 of the 233 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.
| # | Expert | awards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toni ChoueiriDana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA | 7 awards |
| 2 | Walter StadlerCity of Hope, IL | 6 awards |
| 3 | Jianjun GaoTX | 6 awards |
| 4 | Primo LaraUniversity of California, Davis, CA | 6 awards |
| 5 | Hedy KindlerUniversity of Chicago, IL | 6 awards |
| 6 | Steven AlbertsMayo Clinic, MN | 6 awards |
| 7 | Anthony El-KhoueiryUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA | 5 awards |
| 8 | Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 5 awards |
| 9 | David QuinnCA | 4 awards |
| 10 | Chong-Xian PanMA | 4 awards |
| 11 | David HongThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 4 awards |
| 12 | Rachna ShroffUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ | 4 awards |
| 13 | Jonathan RosenbergMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 3 awards |
| 14 | Matthew GalskyTisch Cancer Institute, NY | 3 awards |
| 15 | David SmithWA | 2 awards |
| 16 | Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 2 awards |
| 17 | Brian RiniVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN | 1 award |
| 18 | Matthew MilowskyNY | 1 award |
| 19 | Himanshu NagarMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 1 award |
| 20 | Mamta ParikhCA | 1 award |
| 21 | Jorge GarciaOH | 1 award |
| 22 | Deborah DoroshowIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 1 award |
| 23 | Lawrence FongFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA | 1 award |
| 24 | Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 1 award |
| 25 | Devalingam MahalingamNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL | 1 award |
Most congress contributions
Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 22 of the 233 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 22 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.
| # | Expert | contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony El-KhoueiryUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA | 275 contributions |
| 2 | Primo LaraUniversity of California, Davis, CA | 264 contributions |
| 3 | Siqing FuThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 241 contributions |
| 4 | Cora SternbergCornell University, NY | 229 contributions |
| 5 | Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY | 228 contributions |
| 6 | Mehmet BilenEmory University, GA | 228 contributions |
| 7 | Milind JavleThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 228 contributions |
| 8 | Elizabeth PlimackFox Chase Cancer Center, PA | 199 contributions |
| 9 | Amit MahipalUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, MN | 189 contributions |
| 10 | Hedy KindlerUniversity of Chicago, IL | 163 contributions |
| 11 | Robert DreicerUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA | 156 contributions |
| 12 | Lawrence FongFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA | 147 contributions |
| 13 | Steven AlbertsMayo Clinic, MN | 138 contributions |
| 14 | Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 136 contributions |
| 15 | Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 136 contributions |
| 16 | Rachna ShroffUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ | 133 contributions |
| 17 | Leonard ApplemanUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA | 125 contributions |
| 18 | Devalingam MahalingamNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL | 116 contributions |
| 19 | Terence FriedlanderUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 110 contributions |
| 20 | Jingsong ZhangMoffitt Cancer Center, FL | 93 contributions |
| 21 | Roxana DroncaMayo Clinic, FL | 70 contributions |
| 22 | Deborah DoroshowIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 45 contributions |
Emerging
9 of the 233 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.
| Ana AparicioThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX |
| Stephane ChampiatThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX |
| Mayer FishmanTampa General Hospital, FL |
| Sonia FrancoMerck & Co., MA |
| Sangeeta GoswamiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX |
| Comron HassanzadehThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX |
| Heinz-Josef LenzUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA |
| Wells MessersmithUniversity of Colorado Cancer Center, CO |
| Karie RuncieWeill Cornell Medicine, NY |
How these tables are computed
The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Bladder / Urothelial Cancer, from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.
Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.
The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.
What is deliberately absent
Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.
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