Platinum Study Newsletter Clinician's Corner

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World-Wide News letter of the R01 Platinum Study Grant introducing Dr. Sean Kern as a member of the External Advisory Board.

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Our Platinum Study Team welcomes Dr. Sean Kern, a testicular cancer survivor, as the newest member of our External Advisory Board. Dr. Kern is a Urologic Oncologist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. After completing his urology residency training at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu in 2015, he was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he became Chief of Urology. Due to his oncology interests, he later completed a two-year Urologic

Oncology Fellowship at Indiana University in 2021. He is grateful for his mentors there: Drs. Lawrence Einhorn, Nabil Adra, Tim Masterson, Clint Cary, and Richard Foster. Upon completing his fellowship and returning to Washington DC, Dr. Kern had an interest and passion in improving testicular cancer treatment and survivorship in the military and veteran population.

He, thus, established and became the founding Director of the U.S. military’s Testicular Cancer Enterprise for Survivorship, Treatment, and Investigational Sciences (“TESTIS”) Program. Dr.

Kern is also the Program Director of the Walter Reed Urology Residency and enjoys teaching residents and medical stu-

dents. Ironically, Dr. Kern was himself diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2023, requiring 3 cycles of BEP (bleomycin,

etoposide, cisplatin) chemotherapy treatment by Dr. Einhorn. Dr. Kern draws on his clinical expertise and personal experience with the disease to advocate for better treatment, survivorship, and improved understanding of the late effects of platinum-based chemotherapy.