Pediatric Urology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Director of the Division of Pediatric Urology of the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
• Professor of Urology at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

QUALIFICATIONS:
MD, FAAP, FACS

TRAINING AND PREVIOUS POSITION:
Prior to his arrival at Columbia University he served for more than 25 years as Director of Pediatric Urology at SUNY, Downstate where he also did his Urology training. Following residency he completed a pediatric urology fellowship in England at the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children and Alder Hey Children's Hospital with the world's two leading pediatric urologists of that era.

MEMBERSHIPS:
• New York Section, American Urological Association
• New York Pediatric Society
• Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island Urological Society
• American Urological Association
• Brooklyn Pediatric Society
• Society for Pediatric Urology
• American College of Surgeons
• New York Academy of Medicine
• Eastern Pediatric Urologic Society
• New York State Urological Society
• American Association of Clinical Urologists
• United States Section, Societe Internationale d'Urologie
• Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons
• European Society for Pediatric Urology
• National Kidney Foundation of New York and New Jersey
• Society for Fetal Urology
• Alumni Association, State University of NY Downstate Medical Center
• North American Task Force on Intersexuality

He previously headed the Nomenclature Committee of the Section on Urology of the American Academy of Pediatrics which was responsible for classifying many pediatric urology conditions.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The Division of Pediatric Urology's basic research lab is investigating the molecular biology of kidney and ureteral development in an attempt to determine the cause of various congenital anomalies.