Katie Willihnganz-Lawson MD

Clinic Locations:

• Children’s Hospital and Clinics – Minneapolis
• Children’s Hospital and Clinics – West
• Children’s Hospital and Clinics – St. Paul

Board Certification:

• Urology

Education & Training:

• Medical School: University of Minnesota School of Medicine
• Internship in General Surgery:  University of Minnesota
• Residency in Urology: University of Minnesota
• Fellowship in Pediatric Urology: University of Washington Seattle Children’s Hospital

Memberships:

• American Urological Association
• Society Pediatric Urology, Candidate member
• Minnesota Urologic Society, Resident member

Professional Interests:

• Genitourinary Reconstruction
• Sex Develpment
• Neurogenic Bladder
• Congenital Anomalies of the urinary tract

Publications:

• A critical appraisal of continence in bladder exstrophy: Long-term outcomes of the complete primary repair.
• Genitourinary and perineal vascular anomalies in children: A Seattle children’s experience.
• Successful pregnancy in patients with exstrophy-epispadias complex: A University of Washington experience.
• Robot-assisted laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation: a single surgeon comparison to open surgery.
• Society for fetal urology recommendations for postnatal evaluation of prenatal hydronephrosis–will fewer voiding cystourethrograms lead to more urinary tract infections?
• Secondary vaginoplasty for disorders for sexual differentiation: is there a right time? Challenges with compliance and follow-up at a multidisciplinary center.
• De Castro technique used to create neophallus: a case of aphallia.