June 11, 2008

Urology Expert Delivers First SIU McVary Lecture in Memory of His
Father

The family of the first urology faculty member at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has endowed a fund to support a lecture series in medical education in his memory.  His son will deliver the first lecture this month in Springfield.

Dr. Patrick B. McVary was an early faculty member who helped start SIU’s urology division, holding a part-time faculty position as clinical associate professor of surgery (1974-79) and later serving as a volunteer faculty member.  He practiced urology in Springfield for 38 years before retiring in 1987.  He also served as president of the Sangamon County Medical Society and a member of the American Urological Society.  He passed away in 2005.

Dr. Kevin T. McVary, professor of urology at Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University (NU), will deliver the inaugural McVary Lecture with a talk entitled “Metabolic Syndrome and LUTS/BPH.”  It will held be given at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, at Illini Country Club, 1601 S. Illini Road, Springfield, and is open by reservation to area physicians and their spouses.

“We are very honored to have one of Dr. McVary’s own children, a very accomplished urologist, present this first lecture,” said Dr. Patrick H. McKenna, professor and chair of SIU’s urology division.  “We are extremely pleased the McVary family has chosen to leave such a lasting legacy in medical education for area physicians with the establishment of this lectureship.”

The guest lecturer, Dr. Kevin McVary, is currently on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and serves as the director of the Center for Sexual Health, conducts the Prostate Diseases Minimally Invasive Program and heads the andrology fellowship.  His primary clinical areas are prostate diseases, including prostate cancer and BPH as well as the evaluation and treatment of sexual function.  McVary has conducted clinical trials for the National Institutes of Health and private and industry foundations.  He earned his medical and bachelor’s degrees from NU (1983, 1979).  He completed a two-year program in general surgery at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern and a four-year urology residency, which included one year investigating neural influences on sexual refluxes as the Riba Urology Research Fellow, also at Northwestern.

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