Professor Department of Urology Queen’s University CIHR Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Urologic Pain and Inflammation Staff Urologist Department of Urology Kingston General Hospital Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Nickel’s research has been in the fields of inflammatory diseases of the urinary tract and benign diseases of the prostate gland. He has written over 375 scientific papers, reviews, chapters and books on these subjects. He maintains a laboratory at Queen’s University, funded continuously by peer reviewed and industry grants. His Prostatitis Clinical Research Center, Interstitial Cystitis Clinical Research Center and his BPH Research Center are funded in part by five concurrent grants from the US NIH/NIDDK. His work in prostatitis has led to new awareness of the condition, updated definitions and classsifications, validated outcome parameters and recently multiple clinical treatment trials in this difficult field. He has been involved in multiple clinical trials (single and multi-center) in BPH and interstitial cystitis (many times as one of the prinicipal investigators) that have helped shape the evolution of medical therapy for these diseases. He participates (as organizer, chairman, invited lecturer, or visiting professor) in many local, national and international university and CME events. He has given invited lectures in over thirty-five countries. He is on the scientific or review panel of numerous granting agencies, a regular reviewer for over a dozen urological and medical journals, on the editorial board of eight national and international urological journals, a member of the Canadian Prostate Health Council, NIH Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network, NIH Interstitial Cystitis Collaborative Treatment Group and the NIH Complementary and Alternative Medical Approaches to Urinary Symptoms (CAMUS) research group. He has served on the examination committee and as an examiner for the American Board of Urology. He has been a member of the American Association of Genito-urinary Surgeons since 2004. In November 2007 he was awarded the prestigious Canada Institute for Health Research Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Urologic Pain and Inflammation.