Dr. Howard B. Goldman is fellowship trained and board certified in the subspecialty of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery.  He is a Professor on the faculty of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and is also an expert on quality and patient safety and is the Institute Vice Chairman for Quality at the Glickman Urologic Institute. He has a joint appointment in the departments of urology and obstetrics and gynecology, is actively involved in the training of fellows and residents and is the past Fellowship director for Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Urology at the Cleveland Clinic. His interests are in the medical and surgical treatment of urinary incontinence and other types of voiding dysfunction, neuromodulation, prolapse repair, complex redo female urologic surgery, neurourology and fistula repair. He has authored over 250 articles and book chapters, is the editor of three textbooks, has been a visiting professor in the United States and abroad and given numerous invited lectures.  He is on the editorial board of a number of journals and is formerly an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Urology.  He has served on a number of standardization, guidelines and best practice statement panels for the AUA and international organizations.  He has also been involved in the development of innovative techniques for the treatment of urinary incontinence and prolapse and received a number of awards for his work