Uzoma A. Anele earned an undergraduate degree in biological sciences with a minor in psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County followed by a medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed an NIH/NIDDK funded, 2-year postdoctoral research training fellowship at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation: Science of Clinical Investigation Training Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He then completed residency training in urologic surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University and subsequently a clinical fellowship in male genitourinary reconstruction and prosthetic surgery at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has authored over 40 published manuscripts and book chapters. He is currently the Director of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Louisville.