Education Dr. Downs did his MD from University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1993. He did his Internship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard), Boston, MA, 1995. He is Clinical Nutrition Fellowship from Harvard, Boston, MA, 1999. He is Resident of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard), Boston, MA, 2001. He got Research Fellowship from University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2003. He got Urologic Oncology Fellowship from University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2003. Clinical Specialties Dr. Downs is certified by the American Board of Urology. He specializes in the surgical treatment of urologic cancers and treats all forms of urologic cancers including bladder cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, testis cancer and penile cancer. He has a special interest in the treatment of bladder cancer, where he performs robotic cystectomy (da Vinci robotic system), along with complex urinary reconstruction to make a new internalized bladder (orthotopic neobladder). Dr. Downs’ clinical care philosophy is to provide compassionate, cutting-edge urologic cancer care to his patients.

Dr. Downs has a joint appointment with the UW Carbone Cancer Center, and his clinical research emphasizes developing new therapies for genitourinary cancers.