Department of Urology | Faculty
Clinical Faculty
Shima Anwar, MD, PhD
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Urodynamics with needle urinary sphincter electromyography, management of voiding dysfunction and associated conditions
Stuart B. Bauer, MD
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Neurourology/neurogenic bladder, urodynamics, voiding dysfunction, urinary incontinence, spinal cord and central nervous system abnormalities
Research interests: Impact of clean intermittent catheterization on patients and families, prenatal closure of myelomeningocele, stress urinary incontinence in athletically active girls, botox effect on bladder function
Joseph G. Borer, MD
Co-Director, Bladder Exstrophy Program; Co-Director, Neurourology and Urodynamics; Chair, Reconstructive Urologic Surgery; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Complex genitourinary reconstruction, bladder exstrophy and epispadias, cloacal exstrophy , megaureter, posterior urethral valves, ureterocele, vesicoureteral reflux, hypospadias
Research interests: Surgical reconstruction and clinical outcomes for patients with bladder exstrophy, epispadias and cloacal exstrophy
Bartley G. Cilento Jr., MD, MPH
Vice Chair, Clinical Operations; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Hypospadias, Vesicoureteral reflux, urolithiasis (stones), minimally invasive surgery, undescended testes, varicocele
Academic interests: Fellow/resident education and training
Carlos R. Estrada, Jr., MD, MBA
Urologist-in-Chief; Alan B. Retik Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Spina bifida, neurourology/neurogenic bladder, urodynamics, complex genitourinary reconstruction, vesicoureteral reflux, posterior urethral valves, megaureter, hypospadias
Research and academic interests: Regenerative medicine/tissue engineering, telemedicine, advanced analytics, urodynamics, neurogenic bladder
Julia B. Finkelstein, MD, MPH
Director of Quality Improvement & Patient Safety; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School;
Clinical interests: General pediatric urology and robotic/minimally invasive surgery
Research and academic interests: Telemedicine, use of simulation, quality improvement and measurement
Christine T. FitzGerald, MD, PhD
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Nonsurgical care for children with common pediatric urology problems such a voiding dysfunction, recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), daytime accidents (enuresis) and bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis)
Research interests: Nocturnal enuresis, genetic causes of voiding dysfunction, and psychosocial processes affecting voiding dysfunction
Lillian C. Hayes, PhD, ABPP
Clinical Psychologist, Department of Urology and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Behavioral health treatment of pediatric bowel and bladder dysfunction, coping support and procedural preparation for surgery and invasive interventions, coping with chronic urologic conditions and related healthcare needs
Research interests: Psychiatric comorbidity in pediatric patients with bowel and bladder dysfunction, patient and family experience of clean intermittent catheterization, post-hospitalization adjustment, behavioral health care coordination in outpatient pediatric urology settings, improving access to behavioral health services in outpatient pediatric urology care centers
Mélise Keays, MD, MSc
Director, Clinical Informatics; Co-Director Complex Hypospadias Program; Chair, Society of Pediatric Urology Hypospadias Taskforce; Chair, EPIC Pediatric Urology Specialty Steering Committee; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Hypospadias and penile reconstruction, Differences of Sexual Development, reconstructive urology, anorectal malformations/cloacal deformities, adolescent outcomes of genitourinary reconstruction and general urology
Research interests: Patient oriented research, patient reported outcome measure development, electronic health record optimization for research, learning health systems
Michael P. Kurtz, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Kidney Stone Program; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Fetal urology, kidney stones, hydronephrosis, posterior urethral valves, varicocele, robotic and minimally invasive surgery
Research interests: Health services research, fetal urology, prenatal diagnostics, robotic and minimally invasive surgery, urolithiasis (stones), varicocele
Richard S. Lee, MD
Vice Chair, Research; Director, Urologic Oncology; Director, Transplant Urology; Co-Director, Bladder Exstrophy Program; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Interests: Complex genitourinary reconstruction, bladder exstrophy, colorectal and pelvic malformations, oncology, transplantation, robotic and minimally invasive surgery
Research Interests: Biomarker discovery, renal injury and obstruction, proteomics, glycomics, glycoproteomics, translational research
Ted Lee, MD, MSc
Assistant professor, Harvard Medical School; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health
Clinical interests: Exstrophy-epispadias complex and complex reconstruction
Research interests: Population genetics, genetics of exstrophy and voiding dysfunction, and UTI/VUR risk stratification
Erin McNamara, MD, MPH
Program Director; Director, Spina Bifida Center; Associate Director, Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center; Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Spina bifida, neurourology/neurogenic bladder, anorectal malformations/cloacal deformities, hypospadias
Research Interests: Health services research; health care transition and lifelong care of congenital genitourinary conditions; quality improvement and measurement of surgical outcomes
Caleb Nelson, MD, MPH
Director, Clinical Research; Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: General pediatric urology, vesicoureteral reflux/urinary tract infection, urolithiasis (stones), hydronephrosis/urinary tract dilation
Research Interests: Vesicoureteral reflux, stones, hydronephrosis, medical imaging and screening
Siam Oottamasathien, MD
Director of Innovation Technology Development, Department of Urology; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Complex hypospadiology and penile reconstruction, along with general pediatric urology
Research Interests: Basic/Fundamental Scientific Investigation, mechanisms involved in inflammatory cell biology and pain responses, therapeutic biomaterial development for enhanced and prolonged drug delivery
Deborah Stein, MD
Co-Director, Midaortic Syndrome and Renovascular Hypertension Center; Associate Program Director, Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program; Attending, Division of Nephrology; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Prenatal counseling for renal disease, Hypertension, Cystinosis, CAKUT and renal outcomes, Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
Research interests: Long-term outcomes for children with CKD
Hatim Thaker, MD
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Neurogenic bladder, genitourinary oncology, and robotic/laparoscopic surgery
Research interests: Botox and novel neurotoxins
Hsin-Hsiao Scott Wang, MD, MPH, MBAn
Director, Computational Healthcare Analytics Program (CHAP); Affiliated faculty, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP); Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Genitourinary reconstruction, robotic and minimally invasive surgery, spina bifida, neurourology/neurogenic bladder, urodynamics.
Research interests: Advanced analytics (machine learning, AI), predictive modeling, health services research, urodynamics (signal/software & hardware discovery), business operations analytics
Margaret Werner, MD
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Nonsurgical care for children with common pediatric urology problems such a voiding dysfunction, recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), daytime accidents (enuresis) and bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis)
Vivian Williams, MSN, RN, CPNP
Advanced Practice Registered Nursing (APRN) Director for Ambulatory General Surgery , International Health Services, IR, GPU, Gynecology, Orthopedics, ORL, Spina Bifida, & Urology
Advanced Practice Nurse III, Department of Urology
Clinical interests: APRN Practice, newborn circumcision, inpatient and emergency pediatric urologic care, bladder exstrophy, ERAS
Research interests: APRN Practice, newborn circumcision, opioid utilization in pediatric urology, judicious utilization of periprocedural antibiotics, pediatric testicular torsion, Quality Improvement in pediatric urology, ERAS protocols in pediatric urology
Rena Xu, MD, MBA
Advisor to Health Affairs, Boston Children’s Hospital; Affiliate Faculty, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP); Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: General pediatric urology, vesicoureteral reflux, genitourinary reconstruction
Research interests: Patient care navigation, health systems design, operations improvement
Richard N. Yu, MD, PhD
Director of the Palumbo Family Directorship in Minimally Invasive Surgery; Surgical Director, Behavioral Health, Endocrinology, Gynecology and Urology (BEING-U) Program; Director, Male Sexual Health Program; Lead Urologist, Center for Gender Health; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Clinical interests: Robotic and minimally invasive surgery, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, genitourinary reconstruction, hypospadias
Research interests: Robotic surgery, pediatric male sexual health and global health
Research Faculty
Rosalyn Adam, PhD
Director, Basic Science Research; David E. Retik Chair in Urology Research; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Research interests: Multi-omics analysis of bladder remodeling; novel mechanisms of smooth muscle contractility, preclinical exploration and treatment of neurogenic bladder
Min Dong, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Research interests: Molecular, structural, and cellular mechanisms of bacterial toxins, molecular mechanism of botulinum neurotoxin actions, translational research on developing novel therapeutic toxins, membrane trafficking pathways in neurons and epithelial cells
John Froehlich, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Research Interests: Urinary proteomics, glycomics, glycoproteomics, biomarker discovery, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, urinary tract infection, role of glycosylation in renal damage
Zohreh Izadifar, PhD
Faculty, Principal Investigator, Department of Urology; Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Research Affiliate, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Research Interests: In vitro tissue models, Organ-on-a-Chip, Biofabrication, Urogenital and reproductive health and disease modeling, Urogenital microbiome and infection diseases, 3D Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Non-invasive imaging and assessment
Tanya Logvinenko, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery; Senior Biostatistician, ICCTR
Research Interests: My research focuses on developing statistical methodology to address clinical questions, unified by the themes of high dimensionality and complex structures. In addition, my work concentrates on development of prognostic and diagnostic biologically meaningful models based on clinical or biomarker data.
Program Manager
Jill Harris Tucker
Program Manager
