Leadership
All Faculty
Lay Teng Ang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Area: The mechanisms through which stem cells differentiate into progressively specialized cell types and to harness this knowledge to artificially generate pure populations of desired cell types from stem cells.
Research Area:Â The role of Hedgehog and other signaling pathways in normal and pathologic function of stem cells in adult organs, including bladder and prostate. Molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signal transduction.
Clinical Specialty: General Urology
Research Area: Operational planning, improvement work and clinical research with a particular interest focused on clinical trials.
Clinical Specialty:Â Urology Oncology
Research Area:Â Discovery of biomarkers of Prostate Cancer risk and progression, understanding of the genetic and epigenetic regulators of Prostate Cancer
Timothy Chang, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical Specialty: Endourology
Research Area: Development of technological medical advancements.
Tony Chen, MD
Clinical Assistant ProfessorÂ
Clinical Specialty: Male Reproductive Medicine
Research Area: Using various animal models of Bladder Outlet Obstruction as a representation of Human Prostatic Disease, investigating how intervening with pharmacotherapy, neuromodulation, and other novel therapies may help to reverse the adverse changes in the bladder due to the obstruction.
Clinical Specialty: Urology Oncology
Research Area: Epidemiology of urologic cancer, specifically kidney cancer, to broaden the understanding of what causes kidney cancer. Improving outcomes of surgical management of urologic cancers and in better understanding the causative factors in the formation of these malignancies to allow for future preventative action.
Craig Comiter, MD
Professor
Clinical Specialty: Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery
Research Area: Using various animal models of Bladder Outlet Obstruction as a representation of Human Prostatic Disease, investigating how intervening with pharmacotherapy, neuromodulation, and other novel therapies may help to reverse the adverse changes in the bladder due to the obstruction.
Clinical Specialty: Endourology
Research Area: Population health sciences research in Urinary Stone Disease. Medical and surgical education research.
Clinical Specialty:Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery
Research Area: Basic science, clinical and translational research in overactive / underactive bladder and radiation cystitis. Urine biomarkers of compensated and decompensated detrusor dysfunction. Animal models of voiding and pelvic floor dysfunction. Pharmacologic modulation of lower urinary tract function and fibrosis.
Clinical Specialty: Male Reproductive Medicine
Research Area: Research efforts include surgical innovation, epidemiologic studies, and basic science discoveries to improve the treatments, outcomes, and lives of infertile men.
Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH
Associate ProfessorÂ
Clinical Specialty: Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery
Research Area: Refractory overactive bladder in elderly and frail patient populations, detrusor underactivity, quality of life, patient outcomes, quality improvement, patient satisfaction, and shared decision making.
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: His research relates to the development of clinically driven biomedical instrumentation and medical devices. His primary work is currently focused on image guided detection and treatment of prostate cancer, including MR-US fusion, focal therapies, embedded systems and robotics.
Erin Grantham, MD
Clinical Assistant ProfessorÂ
Clinical Specialty: Pediatric Urology
Vanessa Gulla, MD
Clinical Assistant ProfessorÂ
Clinical Specialty: General Urology
Daniel Han, MD
Assistant Professor
Clinical Specialty: Pediatric Urology
Research Area: Basic science, clinical, and translational research in congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract. Animal models of congenital urinary obstruction. Stem cell therapies and biomaterials for the treatment of congenital renal anomalies.
Clinical Specialty: Pediatric Urology
Research Area: Her current research is focused on understanding why health elementary schoolchildren develop new bladder and bowel problems.
William Kennedy, MD
Professor
Clinical Specialty: Pediatric Urology
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: The Leppert Lab is working to identify novel biomarkers of Urologic Cancers, as well as studying the comparative effectiveness and epidemiology of Kidney, Prostate, and Bladder Cancers.
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: Translational research to develop new in vitro and in vivo diagnostic tools for diseases of the urinary tract based on micro- and nanotechnology. Developing an integrated biosensor platform optimized for point-of-care urinary diagnostics, particularly for Urinary Tract Infections and Bladder Cancer.
Research Area: Her research is focused on developing and integrating cutting-edge technologies in biomedical imaging, artificial intelligence, and spatial omics to decipher and predict how cells and tissues are spatially organized and orchestrated in their native tissue microenvironment and how this organization regulates biological function, disease progression, and response to therapy.
Kris Prado, MD
Assistant Professor
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: Basic, translational, and clinical research in bladder cancer, urothelial cell development and differentiation, direct conversion of fibroblasts to bladder urothelial progenitor cells for regeneration or replacement of the bladder urothelium for benign and malignant disorders of the urothelium.
Clinical Specialty: Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery
Research Area: Improving patient reported outcomes following surgery for pelvic organ prolapse, and innovations in the medical and surgical management of neurogenic bladder and complex voiding dysfunction.
Jay Shah, MD
Associate ProfessorÂ
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Eugene Shkolyar, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Associate Residency Program Director
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: Translational and clinical research in bladder cancer. Biomarker development and design of artificial intelligence systems for improved bladder cancer detection and management.
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Geoffrey Sonn, MD
Associate ProfessorÂ
Cortlandt T. Hill Memorial Scholar
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: Cost-effectiveness analysis, Healthcare informatics for quality improvement, Patient-reported outcomes.
Ryan Sun, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical Specialty: Endourology
Research Area: Paraneoplastic predictors of oncologic outcomes, prostate MRI in men with previous negative biopsies, knowledge deficiencies in sexual health among students, effectiveness of sling-incision slings.
Alan Thong, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Specialty: Urologic Oncology
Research Area: Cost-effectiveness analysis, Healthcare informatics for quality improvement, Patient-reported outcomes.
Serena Yang-Loudin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical Specialty: General Urology
