Richard J. Szabo, MD is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Urology at University of California, Irvine and is on staff at Kaiser Permanente Orange County and Riverside, California. He has written extensively about the new transperineal approach and has a special interest in teaching “free-hand” transperineal prostate biopsy under local anesthesia to his colleagues and informing the general public of the technique’s advantages over the transrectal approach.