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department of urology

Residency Program

 

Major Core Faculty

 

Jack H. Mydlo, MD, Professor, Chair and Program Director. Dr. Mydlo is responsible for organizing weekly grand rounds, visiting professors, and outlining mandatory research and clinical projects which are submitted for presentations and publications, supervision policies and duty hours. He is also responsible for increasing resident exposure to technological advances in urology, such as laparoscopic and robotic surgery, etc. As Program Director, he is directly responsible for the residency program and outlying rotations. His expertise is in urological trauma/emergencies, oncology, and erectile dysfunction. He has been the Chairperson for over 5 years.

 

Michel A. Pontari, MD, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department. Dr. Pontari has extensive experience with female urology, neuro-urology, and general urology. He has several ongoing projects in the clinical and basic research arenas, and has obtained generous funding from the NIH. He is instrumental in the daily clinical activities of the department, as well as in the teaching of residents and medical students. As Vice-Chairperson, he also assists in the administrative duties of running the department. He has been at Temple for over 13 years.

 

William Jaffe, MD. Dr. Jaffe trained at University of Pennsylvania and then did a fellowship in female urology and bladder dysfunction at Columbia in NY. He is the latest addition to our Temple full time faculty and already has made a tremendous impact on our resident education and training. He has also increased the number of research projects that the residents have worked on, and has stimulated much discussion on various topics during our urologic conferences. His expertise is female urology.

 

Michael Ruggieri, PhD. As Director of the Urologic Research Laboratories, Dr. Ruggieri has been instrumental in residency training in basic research and has had a PGY-4 resident in his lab every year (now the lab resident alternates his rotation with Fox Chase Cancer Center.) The laboratories are well equipped for biochemical and molecular biological investigations. Dr. Ruggieri is well funded through NIH grants. He has been with our department for over a decade. His expertise is bladder pharmacology.

 

Robert Charles, MD. Dr. Charles is the newly appointed Chief of Urology at Abington Memorial Hospital. He is responsible for the junior and chief resident rotations at Abington. He coordinates conferences within the institution as well as staff activities by the eight urologists on staff. He and his five partners have an extremely diversified urologic practice which encompasses virtually all aspects of urology. He also runs an excellent monthly urology conference at his institution which includes the Chair of Radiology, Jack Breckinridge, at Abington Hospital, as well as a pathologist, Robert Peterson, who comes from Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Charles has expertise in laser therapy of the prostate.

 

Richard E. Greenberg, MD. Dr. Greenberg is a urologic cancer surgeon and has presented and published numerous articles in the field. He is the Director of the Division of Urologic Oncology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center and plays a leadership role in teaching our residents about these operations. He also holds monthly teaching conferences at his home reviewing the AUA updates. His tremendous fund of knowledge and experience makes him a tremendous asset to our program. He has been with our program for over 20 years. His expertise is urologic oncology.

 

Gregory Dean, MD. As Director of the pediatric urology resident rotation at Temple Children’s Medical Center, Dr. Dean is responsible for student and residency education. He is in charge of the urology clinic at Temple Children's Medical Center and the urologic aspects of the myelomeningocele clinic at Shriner's Hospital for Children. He specializes in the urologic care of pediatric patients from newborn to the age of 18. Dr. Dean has been with Temple for over 7 years.

 

Robert Uzzo, MD. Dr. Uzzo works at the Fox Chase Cancer Center and is experienced in laparoscopic surgery. He and his colleague, Dr. David Chen, provide much of the laparoscopic experience for the residency program. In addition, Dr. Uzzo has his own laboratory under the direction of Vladimir Kolenko, MD, PhD, and has presented and published many articles with our Temple residents. He has been an important part of our program since he came to Fox Chase five years ago. His expertise is renal surgery.