Robert Qi, MD
Dominic Grimberg, MD
Rohit Tejwani, MD
Brent Nose’, MD
Gregory Barton, MD
Kohldon Boydston, MD
Bradley Potts, MD
Evan Carlos, MD
Andrew Chang, MD
Patrick Leidig, MD
Ashley Johnston, MD
Steven Brousell, MD
Brian Inouye, MD
Ruiyang Jiang, MD
Stephanie Sexton, MD
Name: Ghalib Jibara MD, MPH
Year of Graduation: 2019
Fellowship (if applicable): SUO
Location: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Accolades/Awards/Grants:
- 2016 NC Urology Association Resident Debate Contest, First place winner
- 2015 NY Annual Urology Resident Essay (Valentine) Contest, 2nd Place winner
- 2009 Fulbright Scholarship awardee , US Department of State
Name: Eugene Cone
Year of Graduation: 2019
Fellowship (if applicable): 2019-2021
Location: Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital
Subspecialty: Urologic Oncology (SUO)
Accolades/Awards/Grants:
- 2020 - AUA Best Poster Award
- 2020 - Merit Award, Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (GU ASCO)
- 2017, 2018 - Two-time 2nd Place, Montague L. Boyd Essay Contest (SESAUA)
- 2016 - SESAUA Young Health Policy Investigator Award
- 2016 - Presidential Poster, 2016 Meeting of the American Geriatric Society
- 2014 - Appleseed Resident Teaching Award
- 2013 - Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society
Name: Brian Young
Year of Graduation: 2019
Current Practice:
Location: Fort Hood, Texas
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Military
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Graduate Medical Education Urology Clerkship Director
Name: Divya Ajay
Year of Graduation: 2018
Fellowship (if applicable): Urinary tract and pelvic reconstruction
Location: University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Subspecialty: Reconstruction
Current Practice:
Location: Rochester, NY
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: University of Rochester
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Asst. Prof Urology
Name: Major Joseph Fantony Unites States Army Medical Corps
Year of Graduation: 2018
Current Practice: Womack Army Medical Center
Location: Fort Bragg, NC
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Military treatment facility and Veterans Affairs Hospital
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Womack Army Medical Center and Fayetteville VA Medical Center
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Acting chief of urology, clinical instructor for the Womack family medicine residency and Interservice PA Program (IPAP)
Accolades/Awards/Grants: Principal Investigator studying the relationship between burn-pit exposure and urologic malignancy
Name: Melissa Mendez
Year of Graduation: 2018
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: University of South Florida with Dr. Rafael Carrion MD
Subspecialty: Sexual medicine, genital reconstruction, and male infertility
Current Practice: Chesapeake Urology
Location: Silver Spring
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Large group private practice
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Medstar Montgomery Medical Center
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Associate Urologist
Name: Matvey Tsivian
Year of Graduation: 2018
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: Mayo Clinic
Subspecialty: Urologic Oncology
Current Practice:
Location: Winston-Salem
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Wake Forest
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Assistant Professor
Name: Hsin-Hsiao Scott Wang
Year of Graduation: 2017
Fellowship (if applicable): Pediatric urology
Location: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program
Subspecialty: Pediatric urology
Current Practice:
Location: Boston
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Assistant professor
Accolades/Awards/Grants: Harvard-wide pediatric health service research fellowship (NIH T32)
Name: Richard Shin
Year of Graduation: 2017
Current Practice:
Location: Winston Salem, NC
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Hospital based
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Novant Health
Name: Tara K. Ortiz
Year of Graduation: 2017
Current Practice:
Location: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Military
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: US Army
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Chief of Urology CRDAMC; Adjunct Assistant Professor Texas A&M School of Medicine
Accolades/Awards/Grants: CRDAMC NSQIP Surgeon Champion
Name: Michael Granieri
Year of Graduation: 2017
Fellowship:
Location: NYU
Subspeciatly: Male Reconstructive and Reproductive Surgery
Current Practice: Conrad Pearson Clinic, Memphis, TN
Type: Private Practice
Awards: Best Video at AUA 2018 for Reconstructive Surgery
Name: Jessica Lloyd
Year of Graduation: 2016
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: Cleveland Clinic
Subspecialty: Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
Current Practice:
Location: Eugene, Oregon
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Private practice in LUGPA group
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: PeaceHealth Network, McKenzie-Willamette Hospital
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Partner at Oregon Urology Institute
Name: Ramiro J. Madden-Fuentes
Year of Graduation: 2016
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: Duke University Medical Center
Subspecialty: Reconstructive Urology and Cancer Survivorship
Current Practice: Concord Hospital
Location: Concord, New Hampshire
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Mixed
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Concord Hospital - Director of Men’s Health and Reconstructive Urology; Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center - Clinical Assistant Professor
Name: Nicholas J. Kuntz
Year of Graduation: 2016
Current Practice: Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Location: Landstuhl, Germany
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Military Hospital
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: US Army
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Chief of Urology
Name: Zach Goldsmith
Year of Graduation: 2015
Current Practice: St. Luke’s Center for Urology
Location: Bethlehem, PA
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Hospital Employed
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: St. Luke’s University Health Network
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Chief of Surgery, St. Luke’s Anderson Hospital, Medical Director, Ambulatory Surgery Center
Accolades/Awards/Grants:
- Leader of the Robotic Surgery program at 1 of our hospitals
- UroLift Center of Excellence Physician (NeoTract)
- Authored of our Network’s Prostate Cancer Screening Guideline, and developed our Prostate Imaging program
Name: Abhay Singh
Year of Graduation: 2015
Fellowship (if applicable): July 2020-june 2021
Location: Thomas Jefferson University
Subspecialty: Endourology
Current Practice: US Army Fort Belvoir Community Hospital
Location: Ft. Belvoir, Virginia
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): government
Hospital/Health System Affiliations:
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Chief of Urology, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Chair of patient safety committee
Accolades/Awards/Grants: JOES Best of the Best 4th quarter of 2018
Name: Rajeev Chaudhry
Year of Graduation: 2015
Fellowship (if applicable): pediatric urology
Location: UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Subspecialty: Pediatric Urology
Current Practice:
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: UPMC
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Assistant Professor
Name: Zarine Balsara
Year of Graduation: 2014
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: Boston Children's Hospital
Subspecialty: Pediatric Urology
Current Practice: Urology For Children
Location: Philadelphia/South Jersey
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Private
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Abington Hospital-Jefferson, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Virtua Voorhees Hospital
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Physician Associate at Urology for Children, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rowan University School of Medicine
Name: David Chu
Year of Graduation: 2014
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2014-2017) - also got Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) degree through Univ of Penn
Subspecialty: Pediatric Urology
Current Practice:
Location: Chicago
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Assistant Professor
Accolades/Awards/Grants:
- Pilot Grant Award, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (2016) - "Prospective Detection of Early Chronic Kidney Disease Among Wilms Tumor Survivors"
- Top Reviewer, Journal of Pediatric Urology (2016)
- Finalist, Clinical Science Prize, Societies for Pediatric Urology Fall Congress (2017)
- Top Reviewer, Journal of Pediatric Urology (2017)
- Research Grant Award, Societies for Pediatric Urology (2018) - "Reliability of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rates in Children with Spina Bifida"
- Selected for Early Career Investigators Workshop, American Urological Association (2018)
- Top Reviewer, Journal of Pediatric Urology (2018)
- Winner, Clinical Science Prize, Pediatrics Poster Session at North Central Section of the AUA (2018)
- Winner, Best Trainee Abstract (with Soojin Kim, MD), American College of Surgeons Quality and Safety Conference (2019)
- Winner, Clinical Science Prize, Societies for Pediatric Urology Fall Congress (2019)
- Co-Investigator, PCORI Grant (CER-2018C3-14778) - "Comparative Effectiveness of Pediatric Stone Surgery" (PI: Gregory Tasian)
- Principal Investigator, NIDDK/NIH K23 Career Development Grant Award (2020) - "Improving Kidney Health Assessment in Young Patients with Spina Bifida"
Name: Suzanne Merrill
Year of Graduation: 2013
Fellowship (if applicable): yes
Location: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Subspecialty: Urologic Oncology
Current Practice: Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center
Location: Hershey, PA
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Penn State Health
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Associate Professor of Surgery; Program Director
Accolades/Awards/Grants: 2020 AUA Young Urologist of the Year-MAAUA section awardee; 2020 AUA Leadership Program awardee; 2020 Penn State Urology Best Clinical Mentor; 2020 Penn State Junior Faculty Teaching Award Finalist; 2018 Penn State Department of Surgery Humanism and Professionalism in Surgery Awardee
Name: John Mancini
Year of Graduation: 2013
Current Practice: Colorado Spring Urology Associates (CSUA) -- Pikes Peak Urology office. Also do outreach clinic in Salida, CO at Heart of the Rockies Regional medical center (2 days / month)
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Private
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Memorial Hospital System (part of Univ. of Colorado Health), Centura hospital system, Heart of the Rockies Regional medical center, Valley View Hospital
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Was Chief of Urology at Evans Army Hospital at Ft. Carson, CO before leaving the Army in 2018 to join private practice group
Name: Erin Rebekah McNamara
Year of Graduation: 2012
Fellowship (if applicable): Cancer Survivorship
Location: Duke
Fellowship (if applicable): Pediatric Urology
Location: Boston Children's Hospital
Subspecialty: Pediatric Urology
Current Practice:
Location: Boston Children's Hospital
Type: academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Harvard
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Instructor in Surgery, Associate Program Director, Associate Director of Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center
Name: Jodi Antonelli
Year of Graduation: 2012
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: UTSW
Subspecialty: Endourology
Current Practice:
Location: UTSW
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): academic
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Associate professor
Name: Danielle A. Stackhouse
Year of Graduation: 2012
Fellowship (if applicable): Reconstructive Urology
Location: Duke University
Subspecialty: Male & Female Reconstructive Urology
Current Practice:
Location: San Antonio, TX
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Military
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Brooke Army Medical Center
Name: Florian R. Schroeck, MD, MS
Year of Graduation: 2011
Fellowship (if applicable):
Location: University of Michigan
Subspecialty: Oncology and Health Services Research
Current Practice:
Location: White River Junction, VT
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): academic / VA Hospital/Health System Affiliations: White River Junction VA Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..): Section Chief of Urology at the White River Junction VA Medical Center; Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology) and of The Dartmouth Institute, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College; Core Research Faculty, VA Outcomes Group; Investigator, Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, Cancer Population Science Research Program
Accolades/Awards/Grants:
- 2012-2013: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship PF-12-118-01-CPPB; Schroeck (PI) ($48,000 in direct funds), “Impact of Technology on the Quantity and Quality of Prostate Cancer Care”
- December ’14: Dow Career Development Award in Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- May 2015: Conquer Cancer Foundation / American Society of Clinical Oncology Career Development Award
- July 2015: Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 1 Career Development Award
- May 2018: Third prize at the national “Early Career Investigator Showcase” at the 113th American Urological Association Annual Meeting, representing the New England Section of the American Urological Association
- 2019–2023: VA HSR&D Merit Grant – IIR 18-215; I01HX002780-01; Schroeck (PI) (~$1,100,000 in direct funds), “Implementing Risk-Aligned Bladder Cancer Surveillance”
Name: Charles (Chuck) D. Scales Jr, MD MSHS, FACS
Year of Graduation: 2011
Fellowship (if applicable): Robert Wood Johnson/VA Clinical Scholars Program
Location: UCLA Urology/Greater Los Angeles VA
Subspecialty: Urologic Health Services Research
Current Practice:
Location: Duke Urology
Type (private/academic/mixed/ etc…): Academic
Hospital/Health System Affiliations: Duke University Health System
Positions/Title (Prof/Chief etc..):
- Associate Professor Urologic Surgery and Population Health Science
- Director, Duke Surgical Center for Outcomes Research
- Vice Chief, Quality and Safety, Duke Urology
- Associate Program Director, Duke National Clinician Scholars Program
- Associate Program Director, Duke Urology Residency
- Member, Department of Surgery Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Facilitator, Unconscious Bias Dialogues, Department of Surgery
Accolades/Awards/Grants:
- 2015: First Prize, Quality and Safety Culture, Duke University Health System 10th Annual Patient Safety and Quality Conference. “Improving OR to SICU Patient Handoffs”
- 2015: Tutor (Faculty), Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Teachers and Champions of Evidence-Based Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, April 7-11, 2015
- 2016: First Prize, Patient Centered Care, Duke University Health System 11th Annual Patient Safety and Quality Conference. “The Patient Voice Approach: Informing Care Redesign through Patient and Caregiver Perspectives”
- 2016: Rebecca Kirkland Award (best overall project), Duke University Health System 11th Annual Patient Safety and Quality Conference. “The Patient Voice Approach: Informing Care Redesign through Patient and Caregiver Perspectives”
- 2016: Tutor (Faculty), Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Teachers and Champions of Evidence-Based Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, April 12-15, 2016
- 2017: Southeast Section American Urological Association, Montague L. Boyd Essay Competition, 2nd prize (Mentor)
- 2018: Southeast Section American Urological Association, Montague L. Boyd Essay Competition, 2nd prize (Mentor)
- 2018: World Congress of Endourology, Best Clinical Poster (Mentor)
07/1/2014 – 12/31/2016
Society of Urologic Chairpersons and Program Directors
Serious Games: Competition vs Incentives to Engage Residents in Quality-Improvement Education
The purpose of this grant is to develop and test a mobile-device-compatible, online educational program about quality improvement for urology residents in graduate medical education programs in the United States.
Role: Principal Investigator
9/1/2014 – 5/30/2017
National Institute of Aging (1R03AG048130-01)
Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)
Urinary Dysfunction in the Elderly: Informing Accountable Urologic Care
The purpose of this grant is to develop an understanding of patterns of pharmacologic care and referral for older adults with overactive bladder. In particular, the research will focus on referral patterns and medication adherence/switching in Medicare beneficiaries treated with anticholinergic medications for overactive bladder.
Role: Principal Investigator
9/1/2014– 10/31/2016
American Geriatrics Society Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Award
Urinary Dysfunction in the Elderly: Informing Accountable Urologic Care
The purpose of this grant is to support professional and career development activities in association with the GEMSSTAR R03 research.
Role: Principal Investigator
7/1/2014 – 6/30/2016
National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network (NCCN)/Pfizer Community Oncologist Education and Support System
Novel educational interventions for community oncologists and patients: Optimizing Renal Cell Carcinoma Outcomes through Engagement
The purpose of this grant is to develop, deploy and assess outcomes for a novel educational platform targeted towards community oncologists treating patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Role: Co-investigator
7/1/15-6/30/17
National Institute of Aging (1 L30 AG051255-01)
Clinical Loan Repayment Program
The purpose of this grant is to repay debt incurred during medical training, in order to support research on the patterns of pharmacologic care and referral for older adults with overactive bladder.
Role: Principal Investigator
9/1/16 – 8/30/21
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (1 U01 DK110988)
Urinary Stone Disease Research Network: Scientific Data Research Center
The purpose of this grant is to establish and support the Scientific Data Research Center for the new NIDDK Urinary Stone Disease Research Network. The Scientific Data Research Center is responsible for protocol development, oversight of clinical sites, data management and analysis, and coordinating all network operations. The scientific aims of the network are to identify methods to increase adherence to fluid intake for secondary prevention of stones, test interventions to mitigate patient symptoms from ureteral stents, and establish a biorepository and data warehouse for future research.
Role: Principal Investigator
10/1/2016 – 12/31/2017
Astra Zeneca
Longitudinal Analysis of Advanced Urothelial Cell Carcinoma in Older Adults: Treatment and Outcomes
The purpose of this grant is to analyze treatments and outcomes among older adults with advanced/metastatic urothelial cell carcinoma, with a specific focus on utilization of first line and subsequent therapies, clinical trials and hospice utilization.
Role: Principal Investigator
9/1/18 – 8/30/21
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U01 DK110988 S1)
Urinary Stone Disease Research Network: Scientific Data Research Center Admin Supplement
The purpose of this grant is to expand the recruiting sites for the USDRN Prevention of Urinary Stones with Hydration (PUSH) randomized controlled trial of an adaptive program of behavioral interventions to increase adherence to fluid intake, and thereby prevent recurrence of symptomatic urinary stones.
Role: Principal Investigator
7/1/2018 – 6/30/2019
The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund
Our Bedside Story: Reducing Depersonalization with Narrative Medicine
The purpose of this grant is to develop a program to engage surgical residents (including urology residents) in a program of narrative medicine, which is anticipated to reduce depersonalization among participants. Depersonalization is a major driver of physician burnout and thus highly relevant to urology.
Role: Principal Investigator
9/1/2018-8/31/2023
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K12 DK100024)
Duke KURE K12 Program
The purpose of this grant is to provide broad interdisciplinary training in benign urologic disease research for doctorally-prepared (MD or PhD) researchers. My role in the grant is as a mentor for health services research and behavioral economics.
Role: Mentor (Amundsen PI)
8/1/2018-7/31/2023
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (K08 HS025701) Schoenfeld (PI)
Shared Decision-Making for the Promotion of Patient-Centered Imaging in the Emergency Department: Suspected Kidney Stones
The purpose of this grant is to use a stakeholder engagement approach to develop and pilot test a decision aid to assist in shared decision-making for patients presenting to the emergency department with a suspected kidney stone. My role in the project is to provide urologic clinical perspective, health services research expertise, and research mentorship for the investigator team led by Dr. Schoenfeld.
Role: Mentor/Expert
1/1/2019-12/31/2023
National Cancer Institute (R01 CA226842) Dinan (PI)
Disparities in the Use of Oral Anticancer Agents in Kidney Cancer
The purpose of this grant is to (1) assess and describe the current state of oral anticancer medication utilization, delivery, and adherence; (2) identify patient, provider, and systemic barriers to adherence and disparities in outcomes; and, (3) develop strategies to address these barriers to improve access to these agents in order to achieve optimal clinical outcomes. My role in the project is to provide clinical urological expertise as well as expertise in analysis of complex claims-based data.
Role: Co-investigator
1/4/2019–6/30/2020
The Duke Endowment/Duke University (internal Duke sub-award)
An Opioid Prescribing Nudge: Leveraging behavioral economics to reduce opioid harm within health systems
The purpose of this grant is to develop and test an intervention to reduce opioid prescribing for acute pain management among clinicians in the Duke Health System. The proposed project will leverage insights from behavioral economics to design informational and social incentives to reduce variation in prescribing practices and reduce opioid harm.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
4/19/2019–3/31/2024
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R25 HD094667)
Urogyn Clinical Research Education Scientist Training
The purpose of this grant is to deliver an educational program around clinical and health services research to junior faculty urogynecologists in partnership with the Association of Urogynecologic Surgeons dedicated to treating female pelvic floor disorders.
Role: Program Faculty/Mentor