Short Biography of James K. Bennett, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Graduate of Clark College (Summa Cum Laude) and Duke University School of Medicine

Successful Practice, Midtown Urology, in Atlanta for 18 years 

Clinical Associate Professor of Urology at Emory University School of Medicine 

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Morehouse School of Medicine 

Associate Medical Director and Past President of the Medical Staff at Crawford W. Long Hospital 

Co-Director of the Urology Department at Shepherd Spinal Center

Commissioner, State of GA Commission on Men's Health, Appointed by Governor Roy E. Barnes 

Member of the Board of Trustees at Clark Atlanta University 

1999 Practitioner of the Year, National Medical Association

Activist in the evaluation, treatment and public education of prostate cancer

  • First Georgia urologist to perform cryosurgical ablation of the prostat
  • Chairman for Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University
  • Co-chairman, Prostate Cancer Work Group, American Cancer Society, Georgia Division
  • Lecturer to physician and civic groups locally and nationally
  • Created an educational film that features former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis Sullivan, and noted Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, titled “Prostate Cancer in Black Men” that has been used nationwide and syndicated by the American Cancer Society
  • Created an educational film featuring Sidney Poitier in association with the American Cancer Society targeted to all American men

  Unique skills in reconstructive urologic surgery and neurourology

  • Extensive operative experience in bladder augmentation and continent urinary diversion
  • Co-director, Department of Urology, Shepherd Center
  • Author of multiple publications on these topics
  • Presenter of multiple presentations at scientific meetings on these topics

  Unique skills in laparoscopic surgery

  • Innovator of laparoscopic techniques in urologic surgery
  • Former Chairman of the Laparoscopic Endosurgery Committee, Crawford Long Hospital
  • Author of a chapter on laparoscopic surgery for a major endosurgical textbook