The newly named Dianne and Irving Kipnes Urology Centre (formerly the Northern Alberta Urology Centre) - encompassing the CJ Woods Prostate Health Clinic - provides Albertans with state of the art, outpatient focused, urological care, under one roof. The site offers patients access to consolidated outpatient services, allowing visits to specialists, multidisciplinary healthcare teams and clinical services like lab and diagnostics imaging in one location.
At this centre, patients attend clinic appointments and receive procedures like cystoscopy, lithotripsy, and urodynamic testing.
A cornerstone of the centre is the C.J. Woods Prostate Health Clinic, which is designed to provide quicker and more comprehensive care to men needing tests or treatment for prostate cancer. Approximately 25,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer across Canada each year; one in seven Albertan men will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime.
The centre is named in honour of local philanthropists Dianne and Irving Kipnes, who made a $10-million donation to the University Hospital Foundation to advance research and patient care in northern Alberta.
Dr. Dianne Kipnes, a retired clinical psychologist, is a generous patron of the University of Alberta Hospital site and Cross Cancer Institute. She has had an especially significant impact in the areas of cancer, lymphedema and prostate health.
Irving Kipnes has dedicated years of his philanthropic life to advancing urological care and men’s health for patients in northern Alberta as co-chair for the Campaign for Prostate Health. That campaign brought together the University Hospital Foundation, the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation to raise $30 million to build what is now known as the Dianne and Irving Kipnes Urology Centre at Kaye Edmonton Clinic.
Their generosity and advocacy have helped advance care for all Albertans and through their donation we are able to provide the highest standard of urological care.
