Diplomate-American Board of Urology

Specialties: General Surgery, Urology

Authority in Laser Induced Flow Enhancement (LIFE™) Laser Treatment

As a practicing physician for 22 years, Ronald Gilbert, M.D., F.A.C.S.  joined the Orange Coast Urology Group in 1993, where he specializes in general urology, sexual dysfunction, and related surgical techniques including vasectomies, bladder and prostate cancer.  He began practicing medicine in 1987.

Specializing in the treatment of stone disease and all prostate symptoms, Dr. Gilbert is a leader in laser photvaporization of the prostate including the fiber optic LIFE™ (Laser Induced Flow Enhancement) in-office treatments which vaporizes prostate tissue blocking the urinary tract, thereby offering patients a minimally invasive procedure.  This procedure offers enhanced patient benefits such as quick recovery, local anesthesia, and minimal post-treatment side effects or discomfort.   

Dr. Gilbert received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California (UCI) College of Medicine, Irvine, in June 1987.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with high honors in June 1983.

Beginning in July 1987 through June 1989, Dr. Gilbert completed his residency in general surgery at UCI.  His urology residency was also at UCI from July 1989 through June 1993.

Dr. Gilbert has received academic appointments as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCI, and is on staff at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, California.  Dr. Gilbert was certified as a Diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners in June 1988, as well as for the American Board of Urology in February, 1997.  He received a California Medical License in May 1989 through January 2011, as well as a Drug Enforcement Agency license.   In addition, Gilbert received a Physicians’ Recognition Award from the American Medical Association.

Gilbert is published in numerous medical journals including the Journal of Urology: 148:1262:992 – co-author: Topic: Adenocarcioma in a Mullerian Duct Cyst.

He was an invited presenter at the Western Section, American Urological Association, Kauai, Hawaii – October 1992: Topic: The importance of initial follow-up cystoscopy of the management of superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder.  

As an accomplished author, Dr. Gilbert is a co-author of: Bilateral ureteral obstruction secondary to Foley catheterization in a neonate.  He also authored Correlation between serum levels of and androstenedione and intraprostatic levels of diaydrotestosteronne in patients with metastatic prostate cancer.

Dr. Gilbert is married and has two children.
Medical Degree: 1987
Board Certified: 1993


GETTING TO KNOW DR. GILBERT BETTER:

Dr. Gilbert is a “people person” and enjoys helping people.  He says that he decided to be become a doctor mainly because his dad is also a doctor.  You may be surprised to know that he has been a stock broker and also a singer in a rock band in a previous life.

His passion is providing breakthrough treatment to patients and the LIFE procedure offers patients a non-anesthetic approach to surgery that is far less invasive and is much easier to recover from.  He says that the best special recognition he receives from the community or patients is when they say “Thanks for saving my life.”  Dr. Gilbert’s philosophy involves treating his patients as if they were members of his own family.