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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.

#Experttrials
1Matthew GalskyTisch Cancer Institute, NY17 trials
2Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY14 trials
3Guru SonpavdeAdventHealth Cancer Institute, FL6 trials
4Petros GrivasFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA6 trials
5Leonard ApplemanUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA6 trials
6Matthew MilowskyNY5 trials
7Mamta ParikhCA5 trials
8Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX5 trials
9Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD5 trials
10Robert DreicerUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA5 trials
11Cora SternbergCornell University, NY5 trials
12Shahrokh ShariatMedical University of Vienna, NY4 trials
13Samuel FuntMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY4 trials
14Jonathan RosenbergMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY4 trials
15Matthew CampbellTX3 trials
16Walter StadlerCity of Hope, IL3 trials
17David QuinnCA3 trials
18Chong-Xian PanMA3 trials
19David SmithWA3 trials
20Bruce RothMO3 trials
21Bradley McGregorMA3 trials
22Joaquim BellmuntDana-Farber Cancer Institute3 trials
23David HongThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX3 trials
24Neal ShoreCarolina Urologic Research Center, SC3 trials
25Jingsong ZhangMoffitt Cancer Center, FL3 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.

#Expertcitations
1Toni ChoueiriDana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA128,964 citations
2Shahrokh ShariatMedical University of Vienna, NY100,789 citations
3Brian RiniVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN78,561 citations
4Cora SternbergCornell University, NY73,928 citations
5Joaquim BellmuntDana-Farber Cancer Institute67,263 citations
6Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY52,375 citations
7Jonathan RosenbergMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY51,894 citations
8Elizabeth PlimackFox Chase Cancer Center, PA49,784 citations
9David HongThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX47,734 citations
10Neal ShoreCarolina Urologic Research Center, SC46,560 citations
11Hedy KindlerUniversity of Chicago, IL39,455 citations
12Robert DreicerUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA38,325 citations
13Matthew GalskyTisch Cancer Institute, NY35,299 citations
14Lawrence FongFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA35,279 citations
15Sarina Piha-PaulThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX32,741 citations
16Alexander SpiraVirginia Cancer Specialists, VA29,600 citations
17Guru SonpavdeAdventHealth Cancer Institute, FL27,746 citations
18Primo LaraUniversity of California, Davis, CA26,914 citations
19Petros GrivasFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA25,258 citations
20Steven AlbertsMayo Clinic, MN24,526 citations
21Milind JavleThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX22,987 citations
22Anthony El-KhoueiryUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA22,591 citations
23Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX20,202 citations
24Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD18,563 citations
25Rachna ShroffUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ17,357 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.

#Expertawards
1Toni ChoueiriDana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA7 awards
2Walter StadlerCity of Hope, IL6 awards
3Jianjun GaoTX6 awards
4Primo LaraUniversity of California, Davis, CA6 awards
5Hedy KindlerUniversity of Chicago, IL6 awards
6Steven AlbertsMayo Clinic, MN6 awards
7Anthony El-KhoueiryUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA5 awards
8Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY5 awards
9David QuinnCA4 awards
10Chong-Xian PanMA4 awards
11David HongThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX4 awards
12Rachna ShroffUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ4 awards
13Jonathan RosenbergMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY3 awards
14Matthew GalskyTisch Cancer Institute, NY3 awards
15David SmithWA2 awards
16Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX2 awards
17Brian RiniVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN1 award
18Matthew MilowskyNY1 award
19Himanshu NagarMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY1 award
20Mamta ParikhCA1 award
21Jorge GarciaOH1 award
22Deborah DoroshowIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY1 award
23Lawrence FongFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA1 award
24Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD1 award
25Devalingam MahalingamNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL1 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.

#Expertcontributions
1Anthony El-KhoueiryUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA275 contributions
2Primo LaraUniversity of California, Davis, CA264 contributions
3Siqing FuThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX241 contributions
4Cora SternbergCornell University, NY229 contributions
5Dean BajorinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY228 contributions
6Mehmet BilenEmory University, GA228 contributions
7Milind JavleThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX228 contributions
8Elizabeth PlimackFox Chase Cancer Center, PA199 contributions
9Amit MahipalUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, MN189 contributions
10Hedy KindlerUniversity of Chicago, IL163 contributions
11Robert DreicerUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA156 contributions
12Lawrence FongFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, WA147 contributions
13Steven AlbertsMayo Clinic, MN138 contributions
14Arlene Siefker-RadtkeThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX136 contributions
15Noah HahnJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD136 contributions
16Rachna ShroffUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ133 contributions
17Leonard ApplemanUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA125 contributions
18Devalingam MahalingamNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL116 contributions
19Terence FriedlanderUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA110 contributions
20Jingsong ZhangMoffitt Cancer Center, FL93 contributions
21Roxana DroncaMayo Clinic, FL70 contributions
22Deborah DoroshowIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY45 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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