Skills:
I just graduated residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. My program was based in the inner city of Philadelphia, PA and the diversity of my patient population has prepared me to manage a broad variety of urologic diseases. While boasting fellowship-trained urologists in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, as well genitourinary trauma and reconstruction, the skills I obtained in these subspecialties will greatly influence my general urology practice. After spending several months at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, I was able to work with some of the worlds top urologic oncologists and pediatric urologists and learn from their research and experience. My training has endowed me excellent clinical management skills of a wide array of urologic pathologic processes including interstitial cystitis, infection, oncology, stone disease, voiding dysfunction and urodynamics, erectile dysfunction, andrology and reproductive health, and renal transplantation. I have also received excellent surgical training in the following urologic genres: minimally invasive techniques including robotic and laparoscopic surgery, female urology, trauma and reconstruction, urethral reconstruction, erectile dysfunction and prosthetics, and extensive endoscopic management of cancer, BPH, strictures, and stone disease. In all of these experiences, my colleagues and instructors have found me to be technically skilled, conscientious, knowledgeable and reliable in my approach to practicing urology. From July 2014 to June 2015 I will be training as a fellow and Junior Attending in San Antonio, TX with the group Urology San Antonio. My training emphasis will be in the following areas of minimally invasive urologic surgery: Robotic and laparoscopic kidney, adrenal, bladder and prostate surgery. While Urology San Antonio possesses many accomplished minimally invasive urologic surgeons, the practice also has fellowship-trained urologists in nearly every subspecialty niche of urology including female, reconstruction, infertility, oncology (open and minimally invasive), sexual medicine and prosthetics, and kidney stones. I will be treating my own patients in a weekly clinic and will be taking attending call as well. This fellowship offers me the opportunity to hone my surgical skills and manage disease processes in a wide variety of urologic disciplines with the prospect of becoming an expert in laparoscopic and robotic urologic surgery.