About the authors

Winifred Adams

Winifred Adams received her BS from Lewis University and her MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. She is in Urological training at Stanford University Medical Center, where she has performed research in prostate cancer. She was born in Nigeria and envisions someday working to improve urological health and training there.

Linda M Dairiki Shortliffe

Linda M Dairiki Shortliffe is a graduate of Harvard and Stanford Universities. Her research interests are prostatitis, urinary tract infections and physiology, and urinary tract imaging. Her clinical interest is pediatric urology. She is in the National Library of Medicine Exhibit "Changing the Face of Medicine" (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine) and is the President of the American Board of Urology.