Dr.Hendricks Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

A son of a physician, Dr. Hendricks grew up in the Fresno-Clovis area of central California with two older brothers and one older sister.
From grade school through high school, his family lived on a five acre "farm" where he and his siblings took care of cows, chickens, and an orchard with multiple types of fruits and vegetables.  Dr. Hendricks spent the majority of his time in school sports (football and track), schoolwork, and working on the "farm".  A fair amount of his free time was spent sailing, where he and his family were active members of the Fresno Yacht Club.  They competed both locally and regionally, winning a number of regattas.

After high school, Dr. Hendricks went to Occidental College in Los Angeles.  Occidental had and still has an outstanding pre-medical program.  There he gained more enthusiam for the medical field.  When applying to medical schools, he became enamoured with Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.  While visiting Columbia, Dr. Hendicks was amazed at the diversity of the student body, how active they all were in other endeavors, how enthusiastic the students were, and how superb the clinical training appeared to be.  No other medical school appeared to have such outstanding physicians that really cared and concentrated on teaching medical students.  Dr. Hendricks was thrilled to be accepted into this prestigious medical school. 

Dr. Hendricks found Columbia to be everything he expected and more.  He was fascinated by just about every field of medicine.  During his clinical years, he found that Urology was the field he was most interested in.  The combination of medical and surgical treatments, the wide variety of patients seen by Urology, and the complexities of intricate urological surgery fascinated him.  He could also see that urologists really do help patients get better and that it is a very rewarding field.

When applying to residency programs, Dr. Hendricks interviewed at most of the top programs in the country.  While flying around the country to visit these programs, he realized how strong Columbia's program was and decided he wanted to stay there for residency.  He was incredibly excited and grateful that he was accepted.

Dr. Hendricks spent six years in surgical and urological residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medial Center.  During his training he gained tremendous experience with world-leaders in all sub-specialties in Urology including urological oncology, endourology and stone disease, female urology, erectile dysfunction, infertility, and pediatric urology.  Columbia is a high-volume program, meaning Dr. Hendricks did more procedures during his training than most urologists do out of other programs.  The urological oncology volume was particularly great, so that he performed a large number of radical prostatectomies (removal of prostate for cancer), radical nephrectomies (removal of kidney for kidney cancer), radical cystectomies and continent diversions (removal of bladder for bladder cancer and making new bladder or pouch to hold the urine), as well as many other cancer procedures.  Columbia was also starting a new cryotherapy program while Dr. Hendricks was there, and he was able to participate in over a dozen prostate cryoablations during the time that the new generation cryoprobes began being used.

After his training, Dr. Hendricks spent four years as a urologist for the United States Navy.   He spent two years as the department head of urology at the US Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan.  He then spent two years at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California as a staff urologist training urological residents.  While in San Diego, Dr. Hendricks acquired further training in laparoscopy and began doing advanced laparoscopic procedures such as laparoscopic prostatectomy and nephrectomy (removal of prostate or kidney for cancer).  He now has over eight years of experience in these complex procedures.
                                                                                                                        
Once Dr. Hendricks was honorably discharged from the Navy, he relocated to the Bay Area and spent three years practicing in the East Bay.  During that time he began performing robotic prostatectomies with the Da Vinci robotic system, a procedure that was relatively easy to learn with his previous laparoscopic experience.   He now has been doing that procedure for over five years with outstanding results.  He also serves as a surgical proctor, teaching other urologists in the region how do perform da Vinci robotic prostatectomy.

Dr. Hendricks has also gained further experience with prostate and renal cryoablation, becoming an area leader in that field.  He serves as a surgical proctor for these procedures as well, training other urologists on the technique of cryoablation of prostate and kidney tumors.  Dr. Hendricks is one of the busiest prostate cryotherapists in the state, and he currently is doing more kidney cryoablation than any other urologist in California.

Dr. Hendricks has also gained further training in female urological procedures, most notably minimally invasive procedures for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic prolapse.  He has seen tremendous results with these procedures, so much so that he now has one of the largest experiences in the country and he serves as a proctor for other physicians learning these techniques.
                             
Another area that Dr. Hendricks has gained expertise is minimally invasive procedures for benign prostatic hyperplasia.  He has been performing green light laser prostatectomy for over five years and has done hundreds of those procedures.  He also provides microwave thermotherapy in the office for those patients that are candidates for that procedure. He currently is now also performing laser prostatectomy in the office using the exciting new Biolitec diode laser, with outstanding results to date.
                           
After three years practicing in the East Bay, Dr. Hendricks relocated to Napa.  There he has joined with Dr. Thomas Hildreth of Napa Valley Urology Associates, a highly-regarded practice that has been providing quality urology services for over 25 years.  Together they work in an outstanding medical community with state-of-the-art facilities.  The Queen of the Valley Hospital provides comprehensive, caring care to its' community while providing all of the latest technology, including the Da Vinci Robotic system.  It is with great pride that Dr. Hendricks is joining such an outstanding community.  Together, they can provide the best quality care to patients both from their community and from other areas.

Of note, Dr. Hendricks has acquired post-graduate training in the field of bariatric medicine (the medical weight-loss field).  He was trained by his father, Dr. Ed Hendricks, at Medical Weight Control in Roseville and Sacramento.  Dr. Ed Hendricks is one of the innovative leaders of that specialty and is the Secretary of the American Board of Bariatric Medicine.  Dr. James Hendricks counsels patients at his father's office and regularly supervises physician assistants and nurse practitioners.  While he does not practice bariatric medicine in his own office, he plans to do so in the near future.

Dr. Hendricks is a member of the American Medical Association, the California Medical Association, the Napa County Medical Society, the American Urological Association, the Western Section of the American Urological Association, the California Urological Association, the Society of Government Urologists, and the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons.  He has clinical priviliges at the Queen of the Valley Hospital, Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo, and Summitt Medical Center in Oakland.

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