Robert M. Weissman, MD

Robert M. Weissman, MD

Areas of Expertise:

  • Bladder reconstruction
  • Urologic oncology
  • Nerve-sparring radical prostatectomy
  • General adult urology

Dr. Robert Weissman was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1947. He was raised in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, completing his undergraduate education with high honors at the University of Illinois in his hometown. He received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1973, and was a member of the Edmund James Scholar Program. His surgical and subsequent urology training was completed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in 1979. Dr. Weissman was chosen an American Urolgocial Association Scholar and remained at Johns Hopkins for two years as an instructor in urology and as a research associate in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Oncology Center performing basic science cancer research.

Dr. Weissman was an assistant professor of urology/surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from 1981 to 1983. He was then an assistant/associate professor of urology/surgery at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1983 to 1985. In that capacity, he was director of urologic oncology. Upon leaving academic medicine, he moved to Seattle and joined the Virginia Mason Clinic from 1985 to 2000. During those 15 years, he was a clinical professor of urology and was intimately involved in the urological practicing in the local community. His primary focus was urologic oncology including prostate, kidney, testis and bladder cancers, renal transplantation, laproscopic surgery and general adult urology.

He has been involved in both basic science and clinical research and has published and presented numerous papers for peer reviewed journals and meetings. He was elected by his colleagues at Virginia Mason to serve on the executive committee for six years. In that capacity, he was also on the finance committee. He was chairman of the medical records committee and of the institutional review board, each for 10 years.

Since joining Bellevue Urology Associates in November of 2000, Dr. Weissman brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in urolgic oncology and general adult urology. With the advent of minimally invasive operations in many areas of medicine, Dr. Weissman brings special expertise and experience in nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy and in bladder reconstruction for those patients requiring surgical removal of their bladder for cancer. His personal philosophy is: “to treat all patients with the same degree of sensitivity, respect, compassion, common sense and intellectual integrity that I would provide for loved ones in my own family and expect for myself”.