ABOUT DR. ROBERT G. PUGACH
NAMED AS ONE OF AMERICA'S TOP PHYSICIAN

Congratulations to Dr. Pugach!

• Elected as Vice Chair of the American Medical Association's Organized Medical Staff Governing Council.  
  Elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Healthcare Quality for the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review

• Honored as an educator with a lifetime membership in the Harvard Men’s Health Forum

• Invited to join the to the SeekWellness.com Editorial Board 

Meet Dr. Robert Pugach, Medical Director of Pacific Coast Urology Medical Center.

Dr. Robert Pugach moved to California, where he became Department Head of Urology for CIGNA Health plan. In 1988, he opened his private practice in urology. In 2003, he founded Pacific Coast Urology Medical Center to focus on new, minimally invasive treatment options for urology patients. Pacific Coast Urology Medical Center has convenient Orange County and Los Angeles County offices in Los Alamitos, Huntington Beach, and Beverly Hills, CA.

In recent years, Dr. Robert Pugach has focused many of his efforts on minimally invasive treatment therapies for treating urologic conditions such as benign prostate enlargement, bladder control problems and prostate cancer. He was instrumental in bringing microwave thermotherapy to Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Dr. Robert Pugach has performed more minimally invasive treatment prostate procedures than any other urologist in California, and he is actively involved in teaching other physicians about microwave thermotherapy and other minimally invasive treatment techniques.  Dr. Pugach is in a group of less than 1% of US urologists certified to perform HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) for prostate cancer.

For six years Dr. Robert Pugach has been selected as one of America's Top Physicians. Since 2004, Dr. Robert Pugach has been honored with this prestigious award. Each year doctors are selected as Consumers' Research Council of America Top Physicians based on their continuing dedication and outstanding work they have accomplished throughout their career.

Pacific Coast Urology Medical Center continue to be one of the leading practices in the United States in procedures that minimize discomfort and allow you to achieve the same benefits as with more invasive procedures.  We are being recognized as a leader more and more and, in fact, Dr. Pugach recently had the honor of making a presentation in Orlando where the annual meeting of the American Urological Association was held.  

If you have a question about a service or procedure,

please email or call us: (888) 735-4336
 

Awards & Achievements...Did You Know?

• Dr. Pugach provided free prostate cancer screening at Los Alamitos Medical Center.  Dr. Pugach has been providing this community service for more than 20years.

• Dr. Pugach and Gladys invited to join the Editorial Board of Seek Wellness. 

• Dr. Pugach forms and serves as Medical Director of ACS's Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group.

• Dr. Pugach elected Vice Chair of the American Medical Association's Organized Medical Staff Governing Council.

• Dr. Pugach is active in many medical executive capacities, serving on numerous committees for the California Medical Association, the American Medical Association and area hospitals.

• Dr. Pugach is an active member of the American Association of Clinical Urologists (AACU).

• Dr. Pugach was awarded his certification for Continuing Medical Education by the Institute for Medical Quality, a subsidiary of the California Medical Association.

• Gladys is a member of the Society of Urological Nurses and has worked with Dr. Pugach for more than 9 years. Gladys is the Center's clinical specialist for bladder control biofeedback and urodynamics.  

• Dr. Pugach is the most experienced urologist in the western United States in thermotherapy for prostate growth.

• Dr. Pugach offers the two leading minimally invasive therapies for non-surgical treatment of prostate cancer in men.  One of these, cryoablation -freezes the prostate to kill cancer cells. Dr. Pugach has done more cryoablation procedures than any other urologist in southern California in 2008. 

• Dr. Pugach is in a group of less than 1% of US urologists certified to perform HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) for prostate cancer.

Dr. Pugach also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Hospital of Long Beach (www.chlb.org) and led the effort to re-open this valuable neighborhood hospital.