Urology PSTP Scholars
Current Scholars
Channa Amarasekera
Education
Undergraduate: University of Maryland
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Subspecialty Interests: Health outcomes and Laparoscopic prostatectomies
Jason Cohen
Education
Undergraduate: Colgate University
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research Interests:
Bladder cancer, Prostate cancer, BPH, Stone disease
Lauren Cooley
Education
Undergraduate: University of Richmond
Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
John Oliver DeLancey
Education
Undergraduate: University of Michigan
Medical School: Emory University, University of Michigan Medical School
Research Interests:
Bladder cancer, pelvic organ prolapse, racial/socioeconomic disparities in urologic malignancies
Anuj Desai
Education
Undergraduate: Case Western Reserve University
Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine
Matthew Hudnall
Education
Undergraduate: Princeton University
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Dylan Isaacson
Education
Undergraduate: Columbia University, BA Neuroscience and Behavior
Graduate School: University of California, Berkeley, MPH in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Brian Jordan
Education
Undergraduate: Claremont McKenna College
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Oliver Ko
Education
Undergraduate: University of Arizona
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Research Interests:
Urologic oncology, endourology, medical education
Jeremy Lai
Education
Undergraduate: Washington University
Graduate School: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Medical School: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Adarsh Manjunath
Education
Undergraduate: Northwestern University
Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Neil Mistry
Education
Undergraduate: Virginia Commonwealth University, BA in International Studies
Graduate School: St. Louis University, MPH in Public Health Practice
Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Christopher Morrison
Education
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Oluwarotimi (Rotimi) Nettey
Education
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
Research Interests:
Health Infrastructure and Development and Surgical Education in Low Resourced Settings related to Urologic Disease Burdens
Mehul Patel
Education
Undergraduate: University of Virginia
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Minh Pham
Education
Undergraduate: Duke University
Medical School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicinehool of Medicine
Rashid Siddiqui
Education
Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley, BA in Molecular Cell Biology
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Aisha Siebert
Education
Undergraduate: Dartmouth College, BA in English Literature
Graduate School: Columbia University, MPH in Toxicology, Molecular Epidemiology
Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Ashima Singal
Education
Undergraduate: Northwestern University
Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Research Interests:
Robotics with focus on quality and surgical outcomes
Amanda Vo
Education
Undergraduate: University of Michigan
Medical School: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Adam Weiner
Education
Undergraduate: Yale University
Medical School: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Research Interests:
Prostate Cancer, Testicular Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Healthcare Disparities, Health Services Research, Epidemiology
Emily (Emmy) Yura
Education
Undergraduate: University of Michigan
Medical School: Rush University Medical School
Past Scholars
Diana Bowen
Education
BS: Harvard University (2004)
MD: University of Michigan Medical School (2010)
Subspecialty interest: Pediatric Urology
Research Interests:
In medical school, I worked with Dr. David Bloom and Dr. John Park on clinical outcomes of high-risk myelomeningocele patients, specifically focusing on their bladder pressures and potential interventions to delay the need for major reconstructive surgery to protect kidney function. I am now in my urology residency and have joined the laboratory of Dr. Edward M. Gong to focus on bladder dysfunction from obstruction, the cause of kidney failure in many pediatric patients. To this end, I am using a mouse model of obstruction to determine the mechanisms behind pathologic bladder degeneration and the role of androgens in this process, with the goal of developing therapeutic agents to prevent loss of bladder function and promote regeneration of healthy bladder tissue in children affected by posterior urethral valves or neurogenic bladder.
Amanda C. Chi
Education
AB: Princeton University, Chemistry (2006)
MD: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2010)
Subspecialty interest: Reconstructive Urology
Research Interests:
My primary interest during my research year is to learn the skills to be able to identify unmet medical needs, invent, design and commercialize medical devices. As an Innovation Fellow at Center for Device Development at Northwestern University, we are using curriculum developed by Dr. Dan McCarthy (another PSTP scholar) and Dr. David Mahvi. This year, with a group of engineers and clinicians from different specialties, we are working toward a new device in dermatology. In urologic research, I am working on understanding the risk factors for infectious complications of patients who present with symptomatic ureteral stones and undergo primary stone treatments.
Daniel J. Mazur
Education
BS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Molecular and Cellular Biology (2007)
MD: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine (2011)
Subspecialty interest: Urology
Research Interests:
As an undergraduate, I worked with Dr. Richard Tapping studying the sensing of microbial cell wall components by Toll-like receptors. This resulted in a senior thesis that won the best undergraduate thesis in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. My interests shifted toward genitourinary disease during medical school, and I matched at the Urology residency program at Northwestern. I am currently interested in examining the importance of prostatic fibrosis for the development of lower urinary tract symptoms seen in both benign prostatic hyperplasia and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome with Dr. Praveen Thumbikat. We are currently examining this in a mouse model. Additionally, I am interested in assessing the ability of ultrasound elastography to assist in the diagnosis and management of urinary tract obstruction and erectile dysfunction.
Matthias Hofer
Education
MD/PhD: University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany (2002)
Post-doctoral research fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Residency in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research Interests:
After graduating from medical school in 2002 I started my residency in Urology at the University Hospital of Ulm in Ulm, Germany, and transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School for a post-doctoral fellowship focused on biomarkers of aggressive prostate cancer. Combining tissue-based and patient cohort-based approaches, I was working on finding biomarkers at the DNA and protein level to identify those patients that were at risk of rapid progression. After 4 years of fellowship I joined the Department of Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital for my residency in Anatomic Pathology from which I graduated in 2009. Wanting to return to my original field, Urology, I started my Urology residency at Northwestern University in 2009. My research interests remain in biomarkers of prostate cancer progression, technological and research advancement over the past decade and further insights in the heterogeneity of prostate cancer making research in this field ever more challenging.