Core Curriculum Committee Members

 

Alan W. Shindel, MD, MS  
Chair  

Alan W. Shindel, MS MAS, is a Professor of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He graduated from the school of medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2002. He completed his residency training in urology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2007. After completion of his residency he started a 3-year research and clinical fellowship in andrology (men’s reproductive and sexual health) at UCSF under the direction of Drs. Tom Lue and Ira Sharlip. He joined the faculty of urology at the University of California Davis (UC Davis) in 2010 as an assistant professor of urology; he was promoted to associate professor of urology in 2014. His clinical practice at that time was devoted towards care of patients with sexual concerns, urinary tract symptoms, and chronic pain syndromes. During his time at UC Davis he served in numerous capacities on the medical school admissions committee and was director of the medical student rotations in urology. He was the Inaugural Editor in Chief for Sexual Medicine, an open access journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine from 2012 to 2015 and served on the board of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 he left UC Davis to serve as a Medical Director at Genomic Health Inc, a manufacturer of genomic based tests for prostate cancer. After two years at Genomic Health Inc. Dr. Shindel returned to UCSF in 2017.

  
  
Jodi Antonelli, MD  
Senior Consultant: Calculus, Lap/Robotics, Upper Tract Obstruction  
Jodi Antonelli, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in the medical and surgical management of kidney stone disease. Dr. Antonelli earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She completed a general surgery internship and a urology residency at Duke University Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in endourology and stone disease in the Department of Urology at UT Southwestern. Her research interests include evaluation of dietary and medical therapies for kidney stone prevention, assessment of outcomes for minimally invasive surgical treatments, and development and assessment of surgical innovation. She was the recipient of the 2014 Elisabeth Pickett Research Award for the Society of Women in Urology. Dr. Antonelli is a member of the American Urological Association, the Endourological Society, and ROCK Society.  
  
Aaron Lay, MD  
Senior Editor: Calculus, Lap/Robotics, Upper Tract Obstruction  

Dr. Aaron Lay is an Assistant Professor at Emory University and is the Chief of Urology at Grady Memorial Hospital. He received his MD degree from Washington University in St Louis. He completed his general surgery internship and urology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and did his endourology and minimally invasive surgery fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He has expertise in robotic surgery and kidney stone disease.

  
  
Michael Liss, MD  
Senior Consultant: Core/General, Consults & Emergencies, Trauma  
Dr. Michael A. Liss MD, MAS is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio specializing in Urologic Oncology. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Biology from Benedictine University in Illinois, received his medical degree with honors in research from the Medical College of Wisconsin, and completed his residency at UC Irvine. He then obtained a Masters of Applied Science (M.A.S.) in Clinical Research during his Society of Urologic Oncology approved urologic oncology fellowship at the University of California San Diego. His primary research interests include incorporating imaging and biomarker translational research into interventional clinical trials, surgical education and training, and infection prevention with antibiotic stewardship.  
  
Sarah Faris, MD  
Senior Editor: Core/General, Consults & Emergencies, Trauma  
Sarah Faris, MD is an associate professor of Urology at the University of Chicago.  She completed her undergraduate at Princeton University, received her medical degree from the University of Michigan followed by urology residency at Vanderbilt University.   Dr. Faris completed a GURS fellowship at the University of Iowa.   Her practice focuses on male and female voiding dysfunction and reconstructive urology.  Research interests include an ongoing RCT looking at the role of antibiotics in prosthetics, urologic trauma and reconstructive surgery outcomes.  She is dedicated to resident education and is the urology Residency Program Director where she has developed a new didactic curriculum and implemented a new wellness curriculum.   She is committed to diversity and inclusion and has founded an interdepartmental Women Surgeons Committee focusing on career development, mentorship and promoting the careers of women surgeons.  Her efforts were recognized as winner of the 2022 University of Chicago Faculty Distinguished Leader in Diversity and Inclusion Award.  She is committed to improving patient care and outcomes and serves as the Ambulatory Medical Director for Urology and Surgical Director of the DCAM Operating Room.  
  
Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD  
Senior Consultant: Interventional Radiology, Infections, Transplant, Renovascular Diseases  
Dr. Soroush Rais-Bahrami is an Assistant Professor of Urology and Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as well as being a co-founder of the UAB Program for Personalized Prostate Cancer Care.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Maryland. He later received his Medical Degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and then completed residency training in urologic surgery at the Arthur Smith Institute for Urology at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in New York. Following residency he further specialized in urologic oncology as a fellow at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Rais-Bahrami has a strong interest in the development and implementation of imaging for the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of urologic cancers as well as developing, improving, and employing robotic and minimally-invasive techniques for the treatment of urologic malignancies. 		  
  
Jessica Hannick, MD  
Senior Editor: Interventional Radiology, Infections, Transplant, Renovascular Diseases  

 

  
  
Charles Welliver, MD  
Senior Consultant: Sexual Medicine and Andrology  
Charles Welliver, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Urology at Albany Medical College. He is fellowship trained in Andrology with a practice solely focusing on men's health. Dr. Welliver has received awards both regionally and nationally for his research. He has a special interest in erectile dysfunction, Peyronie's disease, optimization of penile prosthetics, factors affecting male fertility and voiding dysfunction in men. He is involved in the American Urologic Association as a member of the Public Media Committee and is a reviewer for multiple journals including the Journal of Urology. He was named Best Reviewer in 2016 for the Journal of Urology for reviews on BPH/Sexual Function/Infertility. He has been a member of the AUA since 2009.  
  
Martin Gross, MD  
Senior Editor: Sexual Medicine and Andrology  
Martin Gross, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He is the Men’s Health specialist for the Dartmouth Health system. He graduated from UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School and completed his Urology residency at Boston University Medical Center. He subsequently completed a Men’s Health Fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He has coauthored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, videos and book chapters. His research publications have garnered multiple awards. He serves on a number of journal and specialty society boards, including the Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons and the Editorial Board of The Journal of Urology. He is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Sexual Medicine. He teaches about Men’s Health and provides penile prosthetic surgical training both domestically and internationally. His clinical interests include complex penile prosthesis surgery, penile prosthesis infection prevention, and the treatment of Peyronie’s disease, male stress urinary incontinence, chronic orchialgia and hypogonadism.  
  
Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MS  
Senior Consultant: Oncology, Urinary Diversion, Adrenal  

Sarah Psutka MD, MSc is a urologic oncologist and Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Washington. She received her AB in Biology from Harvard College in 2003 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2007. She then completed an internship in General Surgery and Residency in Urology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2013. During this time, she completed the Clinical Effectiveness Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. She subsequently completed a Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the Mayo Clinic, and concurrently obtained her Masters in Clinical and Translational Science from the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in 2015. Following completion of her training, she joined the staff of the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago where she served as the Director of Urologic Oncology. During this time, Dr. Psutka also was named Assistant Professor of Urology at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine where she conducted clinical research in Bladder Cancer and taught resident trainees. In 2018, she was recruited to join the faculty of the University of Washington, where she now practices as a Urologic Oncologist. Her clinical practice is focused on the treatment of bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and testis cancer. From a research standpoint, her main area of interest is in the study and development of personalized, comprehensive risk stratification measures in patients with urologic malignancies, particularly bladder cancer. She is focused on developing and validating risk stratification programs that will help patients better choose the optimal therapy for them, with the goal of not only improving personalized oncologic outcomes, but also patient reported outcomes such as quality of life. Specifically, she has expertise in the study of precise measurements of frailty and body composition with a focus on sarcopenia. 

  
  
William Parker, MD  
Senior Editor: Oncology, Urinary Diversion, Adrenal  
William Parker MD is a urologic oncologist and Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Kansas Health System. He completed a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia in 2006 and received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia.  He finished his Urology residency at The University of Kansas Health System and completed a Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the Mayo Clinic.  Upon completing fellowship, he joined the faculty of the University of Kansas Health System Department of Urology.  He is currently the director of the prostate cancer program, and his clinical practice focuses on the comprehensive care of prostate cancer.    
  
Bruce J. Schlomer, MD  
Senior Consultant: Pediatrics  

Bruce J. Schlomer, M.D., is a pediatric urologist at Children’s Health℠ and an assistant professor of urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
 

Dr. Schlomer earned his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed his urology residency at UT Southwestern in Dallas. He then completed his fellowship training in pediatric urology at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Schlomer is active in medical education and directs the resident pediatric urology education program at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He also teaches the American Urological Association (AUA) Board Review Course and has served on the AUA Core Curriculum writing committee.

  
  
Micah Jacobs, MD  
Senior Editor: Pediatrics  

 

  
  
Gregory Murphy, MD  
Senior Consultant: Voiding, Female, BPH  
Dr. Murphy went to medical school at the University of Massachusetts. His residency training was at the University of Connecticut followed by a fellowship in GU trauma and reconstruction at UCSF.  Dr. Murphy is currently on faculty at Washington University School of Medicine.   
  
Steven Weissbart, MD  
Senior Editor: Voiding, Female, BPH