Bruce Houman, MD, FACS (Ret.)

About Me

Dr. Bruce Houman founded The Urology Center of Southern California in 1985. He is now retired and serves as an honorary consultant.  He has received his urological training at New York Medical College and specializes in urological surgeries for malignancies, Adult, Pediatric, and Female urology.

He has special interests and additional training in the fields of male infertility, and microsurgery, no scalpel vasectomy, and erectile dysfunction, incontinence, and reconstructive surgery for adult and children. Dr. Houman has published articles in the Journal of Urology and has patented medical device inventions. He has given numerous presentations and talks regularly on various urological subjects.

Dr. Houman envisioned the need in the community and established our fully equipped, modern urology clinics which provide a wide array of urological services.

My Education and Postdoctoral Training

  • Research Fellowship Pacemaker Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
  • Surgical Internship Maimonides Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • Surgical Residency Maimonides Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • Urology Residency Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
  • Urology Residency New York Medical College, New York, New York

Positions

  • Corona Regional Medical Center, Corona, CA

    • Credential Review Committee 1999-2001
    • Tumor Board Committee 1989-2001
    • Surgery Quality Review Committee; 1999-2001
    • Vice Chief, Dept. of Surgery 1999-2001
    • Chief of Surgery 2008

  • Inland Valley Medical Center, Murrieta, CA.

    • Credential Review Committee 1999-2000

  • Vantage, Medical Group, Riverside, CA

    • Credential & Peer Review Committee 1999-Present

  • Parkview Community Hospital, Riverside, CA 2005-2008

    • Chief, Dept. of Surgery

  • Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside, CA 2005-2007

    • Chief Section of Urology

  • Urology Center of Southern California, CA 1998-Present

    • CEO, Director

Awards

  • Associate: Chicago Medical School
  • AMA Physicians Recognition Award
  • Award for Excellence in Video Urology
  • AMA Physicians Recognition Award

Previous Memberships

  • American Medical Association
  • Medical Society of the State of New York
  • New York County Medical Society
  • New York Academy of Science
  • New York State Urology Society
  • Urological Alumni Society of the New York Medical College
  • Riverside County Medical Association
  • California Medical Association
  • Orange County Urological Society
  • Inland Empire Urological Association
  • California Urological Association
  • American Association of Clinical Urologists
  • Western Section American Urological Association
  • American Urological Association (Active Member)
  • Regional Impotence Institute of America (Director)

Certifications

  • Diplomate of the American Board of Urology 
    • Certified 1990
    • Recertification 1998
    • Recertification 2010 
  • American College of Surgeons
  • International College of Surgeons
  • Active Member of American Urological Association

Inventions and Patents

"NEW STERILIZING APARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE CYSTSCOPES"

Designed, Built, and Patented, Original Device; US Patent Office. 1989

"NEW WATER JET POWERED BATH BRUSH "

Designed, Built, and Patent Pending; US Patent Office. 2009

Publications

"PRIAPISM." Abstract:  AUA Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 1983.

"CATHETER THERAPEUTICS TAXONOMY." F.C. Valentine Prize

Essay Meeting, New York, April 1983.

"MANAGEMENT OF ABDOMINAL UNDESCENDED TESTICLE BY ORCHIOPEXY

WITH TESTICULAR VESSELS TRANSECTION."  F.C.  Valentine Prize

Essay Meeting, New York, April 1983.

"METASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA PRESENTING AS DUODENAL

HEMORRHAGE" (Publication Pending).

"MANAGEMENT OF ABDOMINAL UNDESCENDED TESTES WITH TESTICULAR

VESSEL TRANSECTION" Abstract:  American college of Surgeons,

Bronx Chapter Essay Meeting, March 1984.

"SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF HIGH UNDESCENDED TESTIS: A CURRENT

RE-APPRAISAL OF THE ORCHIOPEXY BY TESTICULAR VESSELS

TRANSECTION."  Abstract: Annual meeting of New York Section of AUA

Athens, October 1984.

"DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF ASSOCIATED UROLOGICAL INJURIES

IN PATIENTS WITH PELVIC FRACTURE." Read at Annual Meeting of

New York & Brooklyn Committee on trauma of American College of

Surgeons, New York, December 1984.

 "DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF UROLOGICAL INJURIES IN PATIENTS

WITH FRACTURED PELVIS."  Presented at I.E. Annual Meeting,

Atlanta, May 1985

"GUEST SPEAKER" Riverside City College, October 1986.

"GUEST SPEAKER" Riverside City College, October 1987.

"ORCHIOPEXY OF THE HIGH UNDESCENDED TESTIS BY DIVISION OF THE

SPERMATIC VESSELS; CRITICAL REVIEW OF 38 SELECTED

TRANSACTIONS", Journal of Urology, 141:1416, 1989.

"NEW STERILIZING APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE CYSTOSCOPY", Video presentation     Western Section American Urological Association Meeting, Phoenix

    Arizona, March 191989.

"NEW STERILIZING APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE CYSTOSCOPY", Journal of

   Urology, 142:1540, 191989.

"MANAGEMENT OF STAGE D2 PROSTATE CANCER BY ANTIANDROGENS",

   Guest Speaker, Scheming Corporation, Riverside Sheraton and Ontario Hilton,

   California, December 191989.

"A NEW STERILIZING APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE CYSTOSCOPY", Video-

Urology, Vol., December 191989.

"PROSTATE CANCER UPDATE", Guest Speaker, Miles Pharmaceutical, Corona,

California, March 1993.