The Stanford Department of Urology is recognized nationally for pioneering research in prostate cancer diagnosis and pathogenesis, normal prostate anatomy and physiology, renovascular hypertension, urinary tract infections and obstruction, urinary incontinence, and genitourinary oncology. In addition to this strong research program, the department provides the highest quality urologic patient care. The department encompasses the urology sections at Stanford University Medical Center, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.

Linda. M. Dairiki Shortliffe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of Pediatric Urology at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. She received her AB cum laude in History and Science from Harvard College in 1971 and her MD degree from Stanford University in 1975. She completed her surgical and urological training at Stanford University Medical Center. She served as Chief of Urology at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center from 1981-1986 and was a staff pediatric urologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1986-1987. She has been Chief of Pediatric Urology at Stanford since 1988 and has limited her practice to pediatric urology since that time.  

She has had nationally funded research in the areas of prostatitis, urinary tract infections, hormonal effects on the urinary tract, and pediatric urinary tract imaging and physiology. Her current research interests include the pathophysiology of urinary tract hydronephrosis, effect of hormones on the urinary tract, and imaging of the dilated urinary tract. She has served as a member of the Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases Special Grants Chartered Review Committee of the NIH and is on the Editorial Boards of Urology, and Molecular Urology.

Dr. Shortliffe has published chapters and manuscripts on urinary tract infections in children, urinary tract physiology, and multiple other areas of pediatric urology. She has been listed in Naifeh and SmithsÕ the Best Doctors in America and The Best Doctors in America, Pacific Region.

Dr. Shortliffe is certified by the American Board of Urology and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Urology Section and the Society of Pediatric Urology. She has served on the American Board of Urology/American Urological Association Joint Examination Committee, as examiner for the American Board of Urology, American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Urinary Tract Infections, Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Urology, Deputy chair of the NIH Consensus Panel on Impotence, and subcommittee Co-Chair for the World Health Organization Conference on Health Care Associated Infections in Urology, and Residency Review Committee. She is a member of the Bladder Health Council of the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, AUA Committee on WomenÕs Issues in Urology. and Chair of the American Urological Association/European Association of Urology (AUA/EAU) Academic Fellowship Program Committee.

She is a Trustee of the American Board of Urology (2001-2007), and is chairing a study of the current state of bladder research for the National Institute of Health (NIH) in 2001.

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