What is Vanguard Urologic Institute?

“Vanguard” is defined as “any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques, and occupying the position of greatest advancement or leading position in any given field”. Consistent with our name, the mission of the Vanguard Urologic Institute is to embrace new ideas and technologies in science and medicine, bringing the best of them to our patients.

Our commitment as physicians and researchers

Our physicians will always be the most highly trained and skilled, striving to provide our patients with care tailored to their specific needs. Our researchers will always apply the newest technologies and ideas to solve the most difficult problems facing our patients.

Our facilities support our commitment

Our state-of-the-art outpatient facility in the new Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza Building in the Texas Medical Center helps us optimize patient care.

Click here to take an Interactive Tour of the Institute

The new Vanguard facility features                                                              

  • a completely paperless office experience
  • kiosk check-in and check-out to streamline and quicken office visits
  • minimally invasive and robotic technologies to treat urologic problems
  • integration of the Internet, multimedia content, medical outcome prediction software (nomograms ), and other Web-based tools into the routine care of our patients.

Our Centers of Excellence

Our Centers of Excellence were established to carry out our mission to ensure that our patients are provided the very best care in each particular sub-specialty of Urology.

Our Centers of Excellence include the Texas Prostate Center, the Center for Kidney Health, the Texas Continence Center (recently renamed the Rodney A. Appell Center for Continence and Pelvic Health), the Center for Screening, Prevention, Detection, Surveillance, and Minimally Invasive and Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer, and the Center for Male Sexual Health and Wellness.

You can visit our Centers of Excellence page by clicking here.

Sharing comes to the Vanguard Urologic Institute

                       

Now, you can find a Social Networking & Sharing toolbar at the bottom of our site.  You can now search, share, retweet, like, recommend and even translate any one of these pages. 

NEW - Visit our Facebook Fan Page by clicking on this link!

Support for Personal Health Records are now available

         

Our department of Technology & Health Informatics can now produce Continuity of Care Documents (CCD) that you can import into your Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault Personal Health Record (PHR).

Please be advised that, effective January 1, 2012, Google will be retiring it's Google Health product.  For additional information about Google's decision to remove this feature and how to transfer any data that you may have entered in to Google Health transferred to another PHR system, please click here.

To obtain your Personal Health Record, you can contact us at (713) 366-7802.


VUI in the News

2011

September 1— FREE Prostate Cancer Screening event at Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center sponsored by the Center for Screening at the Vanguard Urologic Institute.
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August 23— Dr. Kevin Slawin featured in American Health & Beauty discussing a minimally invasive in-office treatment for enlarged prostate, also known as BPH.
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August 1— Dr. Peter Hinh joins the Vanguard Urologic Institute after completing his residency at University of Texas.  Plans to practice at a new Vanguard facility in the southeast soon..
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May 31— The Vanguard Urologic Institute proudly sponsors the Dad's Day 5K Run and Walk presented by Us TOO, an international grassroots organization formed and governed by prostate cancer survivors, on Saturday, June 18th.
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February 28— The Vanguard Urologic Institute featured in HealthLeaders Media for adopting touch screen tablets, kiosks, and patient portals that automate the check-in process, resulting in shorter wait times, reduced errors, and lower costs.
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January 13— Pat Meyers, RN to Dr. Kevin Slawin and John Dodge PA-C, has passed away suddenly and unexpectedly.  Memorial Fund created in her honor.
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News Archives:  2010 : 2009 : 2008 

 

ePrescribing is here and available now

            

Ask our Front Desk staff about adding your pharmacy during your next visit.  Most retail pharmacy chains as well as small neighborhood pharmacies are already able to accept electronic prescriptions.  In addition, mail order pharmacies have also joined the surescripts network!  It fast, easy and free.  Best of all, your prescription will be waiting for you when you arrive at the pharmacy!*

* As an e-prescription, your prescription has a head start, arriving in the pharmacist's computer before you leave our office.  However, this does not mean that it will always be ready when you arrive at your pharmacy.  The time needed to prepare your prescription can be affected by things like the number of prescriptions in the pharmacy's computer, how quickly you arrive at the pharmacy after your visit here, and how many people are already waiting at the pharmacy.  To learn more, visit www.LearnAboutEprescriptions.com.

 
® Google Health is a Registered Trademark of Google, Inc.  ® Microsoft HealthVault is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft Corp. ® Surescripts and 'The Nation's E-Prescription Network' is a registered servicemark of Surescripts.

 

® Google Health is a Registered Trademark of Google, Inc.  ® Microsoft HealthVault is a Registered Trademark of Microsoft Corp. ® Surescripts and 'The Nation's E-Prescription Network' is a registered servicemark of Surescripts.