The mission of the Section of Urology is to provide compassionate, cost-effective, skillful and innovative care to all patients; to ask relevant questions and answer them with scientific knowledge obtained through laboratory and clinical research; to educate students, residents and fellows in the art and science of urology and thereby to train the future leaders in our field; our purpose in the Section of Urology is to work responsibly and ethically as a team, to achieve our goals.

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