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George D. Webster

George D. Webster

🇺🇸 United States🏥 Duke University Medical CenterProfessor Emeritus of Urology
Biography ↗
Mentored by
Richard Turner-Warwick
Role
Founder, Webster School (Duke)
Trainees (3)
🇺🇸 Brian J. Flynn · 2002🇺🇸 Andrew C. Peterson · 2008🇮🇹 Guido Barbagli · 1983

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor emeritus of surgery, Duke University, urology1
  • Residency Internship and surgical residency at the Godfrey Huggins teaching hospital, through 19732
  • Other training Institute of Urology, London; fellowship with James F. Glenn, Duke2
  • Leadership Founder, Duke Section of Reconstructive Urology, Female Urology and Urodynamics and its fellowship, 19822
  • Honors St. Paul’s Medal, British Association of Urological Surgeons; Zimskind Award, Society of Urodynamics and Female Urology3

Key Publications​

Webster and Juan Ramón reported a sequential elaborated perineal repair in 74 patients with posterior urethral distraction defects after pelvic fracture.4 The reported maneuvers were distal urethral mobilization, corporal separation, inferior pubectomy, and supracrural urethral rerouting.4 At Duke, Webster developed video urodynamic work and bladder reconstruction strategies for neurogenic bladder.2 He described the transcorporal approach to artificial urinary sphincter implantation in the 1990s.2

  1. Webster GD, Ramon J. "Repair of Pelvic Fracture Posterior Urethral Defects Using an Elaborated Perineal Approach: Experience with 74 Cases." Journal of Urology. 1991;145(4):744–748. doi

    Progressive perineal repair of pelvic-fracture urethral defects (1991). Developed a sequential perineal approach using additional maneuvers as needed to achieve tension-free urethral anastomosis.

    Cited on: Combined Abdominoperineal Reconstruction · Pelvic Fracture Urethral Injury (PFUI) · History of Urethral Surgery
  2. Khoury JM, Webster GD. "EVALUATION OF AUGMENTATION CYSTOPLASTY FOR SEVERE NEUROPATHIC BLADDER USING THE HOSTILITY SCORE." Develop Med Child Neuro. 1992;34(5):441–447. doi

    Neurogenic-bladder Hostility Score (1992). Co-developed a urodynamic score used to assess upper-tract risk and outcomes after augmentation in children with myelodysplasia.

Professional Work​

  • Transcorporal artificial urinary sphincter cuff placement (2002). Developed a transcorporal cuff approach for artificial urinary sphincter implantation in complex revision cases.5 Cited on WARWIKI: Artificial Urinary Sphincter (Procedure).

The Duke Fellowship​

Webster started the Duke fellowship in 1982 and reported training 32 fellows in consecutive years.2 Andrew C. Peterson, a 2003 Duke reconstructive fellow, later directed the Duke Reconstructive Urology and Genitourinary Cancer Survivorship Fellowship.6

Other Publications Cited on WARWIKI

25 additional publications with George D. Webster as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Carr LK, MacDiarmid SA, Webster GD. Treatment of complex anterior urethral stricture disease with mesh graft urethroplasty. J Urol. 1997;157(1):104-8. doi
    Cited on: Pedicled Preputial Tube Urethroplasty · Turner-Warwick Two-Stage Scrotal Inlay Urethroplasty · Cecil-Culp Procedure
  2. Patel DN, Fok CS, Webster GD, Anger JT. "Female Urethral Injuries Associated With Pelvic Fracture: A Systematic Review of the Literature." BJU Int. 2017;120(6):766–73. doi
    Cited on: Primary End-to-End Anastomosis (Female) · Pelvic Fracture Urethral Injury (PFUI)
  3. Webster GD, Peterson AC. "Simple perineal and elaborated perineal posterior urethroplasty." Arab J Urol. 2015;13(1):17-23. doi
    Cited on: Osteotome and Mallet · Rongeur
  4. Guralnick ML, Webster GD. The augmented anastomotic urethroplasty: indications and outcome in 29 patients. J Urol. 2001;165(5):1496-501. doi
    Cited on: ANTA Urethroplasty (Augmented Non-Transected Anastomotic) · Augmented Anastomotic Urethroplasty
  5. Iselin CE, Webster GD. Dorsal onlay graft urethroplasty for repair of bulbar urethral stricture. J Urol. 1999;161(3):815-8. doi
    Cited on: Orandi Flap (Longitudinal Ventral Penile Skin Flap) · Quartey Flap (Transverse Preputial / Distal Penile Cutaneous Island Flap)
  6. Carr LK, Webster GD. "Full-thickness cutaneous Martius flaps: a useful technique in female reconstructive urology." Urology. 1996;48(3):461–463. doi
    Cited on: Labia Majora Fasciocutaneous Flap · Martius Labial Fat-Pad Flap for Vesicovaginal Fistula
  7. Ramon J, Mekras J, Webster GD. "Transvaginal needle suspension procedures for recurrent stress incontinence." Urology. 1991;38(6):519–22. doi
    Cited on: Raz-Pereyra Trocar · Stamey Needle
  8. Goldwasser B, Barrett DM, Webster GD, Kramer SA. Cystometric properties of ileum and right colon after bladder augmentation, substitution or replacement. J Urol. 1987;138(4 Pt 2):1007-1008. doi
    Cited on: Principles of Bladder Augmentation · Ileocecal Cystoplasty (Ileocecocystoplasty)
  9. Robertson CN, Riefkohl R, Webster GD. "Use of the rectus abdominis muscle flap in urological reconstructive procedures." J Urol. 1986;135(5):963–965. doi
    Cited on: Organ-Sparing USF Repair with Interposition Flap · Bladder-Sparing Approaches for Urosymphyseal / Puboprostatic Fistula
  10. Webster GD, Bertram RA. "Continent Catheterizable Urinary Diversion Using the Ileocecal Segment With Stapled Intussusception of the Ileocecal Valve." The Journal of Urology. 1986;135(3):465-9. doi
    Cited on: Ileocecal Cystoplasty (Ileocecocystoplasty) · Penn Pouch
  11. Granieri MA, Webster GD, Peterson AC. "Critical analysis of patient-reported complaints and complications after urethroplasty for bulbar urethral stricture disease." Urology. 2015;85(6):1489–1493. doi
    Cited on: Urethroperineal Fistula
  12. McNamara ER, Webster GD, Peterson AC. "The UroLume stent revisited: the Duke experience." Urology. 2013;82(4):933–936. doi
    Cited on: History of Urethral Surgery

Footnotes​

  1. George David Webster | Scholars@Duke profile: Academic Experience. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. CJU - Legends in Urology. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. urology.duke.edu. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. Scholars@Duke publication: Repair of pelvic fracture posterior urethral defects using an elaborated perineal approach: e. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  5. canjurol.com. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  6. Andrew Charles Peterson | Scholars@Duke profile. Accessed October 2026. ↩