Our Providers

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Vanderbilt University

• Internship:  Vanderbilt University Affiliated Hospitals

• Junior Residency in General Surgery: The Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Program in Urology

• Residency in Urological Surgery: Harvard Program in Urology

• Fellowship in Pediatric Urology: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Memberships:

• American Urological Association

• American Urological Society, Southeastern Section

• North Carolina Pediatric Society

• American Academy of Pediatrics/NC Chapter

• American Academy of Pediatrics

Professional Interests:

• Robotic Surgery

• Cryptorchidism

• Testicular Injury/Torsion, Hypospadias

• Vesicoureteral Reflux

• Urinary Tract Infection

• Urinary Incontinence

Publications:

• Vesicoureteral reflux in children with urachal anomalies.

• Acute renal infarction due to fungal vascular invasion in disseminated candidiasis.

• Cystic dysplasia of testis associated with ectopic ureter causing chronic orchalgia.

• Male neonatal circumcision: indications, controversies and complications.

• Murine in vitro whole bladder model: a method for assessing phenotypic responses to pharmacologic stimuli and hypoxia.

• Murine in vitro whole bladder physiology.

• Magnetic resonance imaging of fetal urinoma.

• Subcapsular urinoma: an unusual form of page kidney in a high school wrestler.

• The use of vesicostomy as permanent urinary diversion in the child with myelomeningocele.

• The decompensated detrusor V: molecular correlates of bladder function after reversal of experimental outlet obstruction.

• The decompensated detrusor IV: experimental bladder outlet obstruction and its functional correlation to the expression of the ryanodine and voltage operated calcium channels.

• Multi-institutional experience with the gastrointestinal composite reservoir.

• Intravesical Jackson-Pratt drain for urinary diversion after augmentation cystoplasty.

• Idiopathic congenital dysmorphic megascrotum.

• The anatomical approach to inguinal orchiopexy.

• Long-term followup of endoscopic incision of ureteroceles: intravesical versus extravesical.

• The decompensated detrusor III: impact of bladder outlet obstruction on sarcoplasmic endoplasmic reticulum protein and gene expression.

• Appendicovesicostomy: the mitrofanoff procedure-a 15-year perspective.

• Ectopic and undescended testes: 2 variants of a single congenital anomaly?

• Self-induced high urinary flow rate in a patient with severe outlet obstruction.

• Torsion of intraabdominal testicular tumors. A case report.