Seth P. Lerner, MD, is Professor of Urology and holds the Beth and Dave Swalm Chair in Urologic Oncology, in the Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine.  He is Director of Urologic Oncology and the Multidisciplinary Bladder Cancer Program and Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs. His research interests include use of selective estrogen receptor modulators for treatment of bladder cancer, gene therapy, surgical quality and outcomes and integrated genomic characterization of bladder cancer. He has 26 years of experience as a clinical investigator for both NCI and industry funded clinical trials. He is chair of the Local Bladder Cancer committee of SWOG, and co-chaired the Analysis Working Group of The Cancer Genome Atlas Project for muscle invasive bladder cancer.