Area of Expertise: Tissue Engineering
Area of Expertise: Pediatric Urology
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Anthony Atala, MD
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Professor and Chair of Urology
Atala directs the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where scientists work on developing healing cell therapies and engineering replacement tissues and organs in the lab. His team was the first in the world to engineer and successfully implant an engineered organ in the lab -- bladders. Institute scientists are currently working on therapies for more than 30 areas of the body, from heart valves and muscle tissue to livers and kidneys. Atala has received the Christopher Columbus Foundation Award, given to a living American who is currently working on a discovery that will significantly affect society. He is listed in Best Doctors in America.
Faculty Profile, Research and PublicationsArea of Expertise: Urology - Adult
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Gopal H. Badlani, MD
Professor of Urology and Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs
Badlani is a recognized expert in the field of urinary incontinence. He has been invited nationally and internationally as a visiting professor. He is the editor of several textbooks and has published more than 200 manuscripts and book chapters. He is secretary of the American Urologic Association. Badlani specializes in urinary incontinence in women and men and in minimally invasive treatments for pelvic organ prolapse and prostate obstruction. His lab has done basic research to determine the genetic basis for stress urinary incontinence. He is listed in Best Doctors in America.
Faculty Profile, Research and PublicationsArea of Expertise: Bed Wetting
Area of Expertise: Urinary Tract Infections
Area of Expertise: Pediatric Urology
Area of Expertise: Toilet Training
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Steve Hodges, MD
Associate Professor Surgical Sciences-Urology
Dr. Hodges is a pediatric urologist whose specialties include bed wetting, toilet training and chronic urinary tract infections. Other areas of expertise are hernia, blood in the urine, hypospadias and hydrocele. He has authored a book for consumers on toilet training and voiding dysfunction. His research interests include the prevention of luminal strictures and scar disease throughout the urinary tract and body and dysfunctional elimination. He is an associate editor of Scientific World Journal, and on editorial boards of the Indian Journal of Urology and BMC Urology. Multiple new treatments developed by Hodges have been licensed to startup companies, including drug-coated catheters and stents designed to prevent or treat urethral strictures, and a wipe to prevent urinary tract infections in young girls.
Faculty Profile, Research and PublicationsArea of Expertise: Incontinence
Area of Expertise: Men's Health
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Ryan Terlecki, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Urology
Terlecki specializes in urethral and urologic reconstruction, sexual dysfunction, and Peyronie’s disease. He is fellowship trained in urologic reconstruction, female urology and urodynamics, as well as in trauma and prosthetics. He is experienced managing cases of erectile dysfunction that don’t respond to medications and complex cases that have undergone multiple prior procedures. He earned his medical degree and completed his residency at Wayne State University. Terlecki was invited to perform a live surgery and lecture at the 2011 Annual Congress of the Venezuelan Urologic Society.