Benjamin K. Canales MD, MPH, graduated in 2001 from LSU Medical School in New Orleans. He then completed urology residency and a combined AUA Foundation Research Scholar/Minimally Invasive Urology Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. In 2007, he joined the urology faculty at the University of Florida and continues to lead the urology stone service at the North Florida/South Georgia VAMC, one of the largest and busiest veterans’ hospitals in the country. With NIH funding, he has created a hyperoxaluric animal model of bariatric surgery and is developing strategies for stone prevention and technologies for spot urinary parameter testing. For his efforts, he received the 2011 AUA/Astellas Rising Star in Urology Award, the 2016 American Urological Association Gold Cystoscope Award, and the 2017 Endourology Society/Cook Urological “Arthur Smith” Award. In addition to his interests in nephrolithiasis, he also performs minimally invasive surgery for upper-tract renal tumors and obstruction, including laparoscopic nephrectomy and nephroureterectomy as well as robotic partial nephrectomy and pyeloplasty.
