Dr. Alaina Garbens, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Biography

Dr. Alaina Garbens is a urologist at Mackenzie Health and Part-Time Faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She earned her medical degree, completed her urology residency, and obtained a PhD in surgical education at the University of Toronto. She later completed a two-year fellowship in minimally invasive robotic surgery and complex stone surgery at UT Southwestern. Her evidence-based practice focuses on minimally invasive urology, including endourology, BPH therapies, female urology, and prostate and bladder conditions. She founded Maple Urology and is a Founding Member of the North Toronto Prostate Center, specializing in focal prostate cancer therapy. Dr. Garbens also founded Élevé to deliver truly comprehensive care, integrating regenerative therapies into a multidisciplinary model to proactively restore patient function and confidence. Committed to lifelong learning, she continuously expands her expertise through advanced training and research.

Disclosure

1. I have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose. - Direct financial payments including receipt of honoraria: Lupin - Honoraria for Educational Speaking - Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureaus: Lupin Advisory Board Previously - Funded grants or clinical trials: Canadian Urological Association Grant awarded 2025/2026 - All other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity: I own a clinic named Élevé which provides services and treatment for pelvic floor disorders. 2. I intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication). 3. I used generative AI to assist with any or all of the following: summarizing literature / drafting learning objectives / creating diagrams. All outputs were reviewed, fact-checked, and modified by me, and responsibility for the content remains my own.