Kenneth G Sands, DO
Urology
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Bio & Overview
Kenneth Sands, DO, MBA, is a urologist who specializes in treating kidney stones, benign prostatic hyperplasia, ureteral stricture, and ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction.
He has expertise in several kinds of surgical procedures including:
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
- Ureteroscopy
- Thulium laser lithotripsy
- Robotic kidney surgery
- Robotic reconstructive surgery
Dr. Sands grew up on a small farm in southwest Virginia, where he enjoyed exploring the woods and fishing on the river. He attended Randolph–Macon College in Ashland, where he studied economics and business, and received his medical degree and an MBA from Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee.
He completed his urology residency training at Michigan State University and an endourology and minimally invasive surgery fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. He then joined the faculty at Washington University as an assistant professor of urology for several years before coming to UVA Health.
Dr. Sands is the author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles on urology and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Urology and the Journal of Endourology.
Organizational Involvement/Memberships
- Endourological Society
- American Urological Association
- American College of Osteopathic Surgeons
- American Osteopathic Association
Academic Information
- Department
- Urology
- Academic Role
- Assistant Professor
- Division
- Endourology and Minimally Invasive
Conditions & Treatments
- Bladder diverticulectomy
- Bladder diverticulum
- Bladder stone removal
- Calculus of urinary tract
- Cystolitholapaxy
- Endourology
- Hydronephrosis
- Kidney stone
- Laparoscopic nephrectomy
- Laparoscopy ureteroneocystostomy
- Laser lithotripsy
- Minimally invasive kidney stone removal
- Minimally invasive kidney surgery
- Nephrectomy
- Nephrolithotomy
- Pyelolithotomy
- Pyeloplasty
- Radical nephrectomy
- Robotic pyeloplasty
- Robotic surgery
- Robotic surgery for upj repair
- Robotic urological surgery
- Ureterolithiasis
- Ureteropelvic junction obstruction
- Uric acid urolithiasis
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- LMU Debusk College Of Osteopathic Medicine (2014)
- Residency
- Michigan State University (2019)
- Fellowship
- Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2020)
- Certification
- American Osteopathic Board of Surgery (Urological Surgery)
- Additional Specialties
- Endourology and Stone Disease
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