Inder Perkash, MD, a spinal cord specialist at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine, has died at 91, according to an obituary published by the health system.
Dr. Perkash was an emeritus professor of urology at Stanford, where he specialized in treating disabled veterans.
He joined the system in 1972 and became head of the spinal cord injury program at the VA Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif. He was also named an endowed chair of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at Stanford.
He specialized in researching and treating neurogenic bladder management, alongside treating spinal cord injury patients. Dr. Perkash was the first to develop new guidelines for neurogenic bladder, establishing protocols to diagnose, treat and care for the disease in patients long term.
He also became the first surgeon to debut a surgical procedure that cut the sphincter muscles in the bladder to manage the condition in spinal cord injury patients.
Dr. Perkash retired in 2013 but remained active in clinical care until 2023. He died Feb. 28.
