Dr. Matthew Bui Receives the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Matthew Bui was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1968. He and his family barely escaped during the surrender of Vietnam in 1975 and came to the US as refugees. Dr. Bui grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he attended Franklin and Marshall College. He majored in Physics and graduated as valedictorian with Summa Cum Laude. In 1998, Dr. Bui attended the Yale School of Medicine in the Medical Scientists Training Program and earned both the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. Subsequently, Dr. Bui did his urology residency at UCLA where he earned accolades for his scientific research in kidney cancer.
Dr. Bui’s ground breaking work on advanced kidney cancer earned him the first prize and second prize at the American Urological Association Western Section and national conference, respectively, along with best scientific poster at the Society of Urologic Oncology in 2002. After residency, Dr. Bui continued on with a fellowship at UCLA dedicated to laparoscopic, robotic and minimally invasive urology. Dr. Bui joined the faculty at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale in 2005 as an assistant professor of urology.