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Michel Pontari, MD

Vice-Chairperson, Department of Urology

Associate Professor, Urology

Telephone:  215-707-3375

Fax:  215-707-4758

Email: michel.pontari@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Urology

Undergraduate degree:  Wake Forrest University

Winston-Salem, NC - 1982

 

Medical school:  Pennsylvania State University

Hershey, PA - 1986

 

Post graduate:  Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CT - 1988

 

Residency:  Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CT - 1991

 

Fellowship:  Boston University School of Medicine

Boston, MA - 1992

 

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Female urology

Pelvic pain

Neuro-urology

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

19570491. Bernal RM, Pontari MA, Evaluation of chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men: is it chronic prostatitis? Curr Urol Rep 10:4(295-301)2009 Jul

19467677. Pontari M, Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain: the disease. J Urol 182:1(19-20)2009 Jul

18519015. Pontari MA, Etiologic theories of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Curr Urol Rep 8:4(307-12)2007 Jul

18405756. Pontari MA, Ruggieri MR, Mechanisms in prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. J Urol 179:5 Suppl(S61-7)2008 May

18404072. Kunkle DA, Lebed BD, Mydlo JH, Pontari MA, Evaluation and management of gunshot wounds of the penis: 20-year experience at an urban trauma center. J Trauma 64:4(1038-42)2008 Apr

18061026. Pontari MA, Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Urol Clin North Am 35:1(81-9; vi)2008 Feb

17509285. Pontari MA, Joyce GF, Wise M, McNaughton-Collins M, Prostatitis. J Urol 177:6(2050-7)2007 Jun

16930505. Pontari MA, Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis: are they related? Curr Urol Rep 7:4(329-34)2006 Jul

16866625. Ruggieri MR, Braverman AS, D'Andrea L, Simpkiss B, Kozin SH, Pontari MA, Betz R, Barbe MF, Functional reinnervation of the canine bladder after spinal root transection and immediate end-on-end repair. J Neurotrauma 23:7(1125-36)2006 Jul

16217275. Ruggieri MR Sr, Braverman AS, Pontari MA, Combined use of alpha-adrenergic and muscarinic antagonists for the treatment of voiding dysfunction. J Urol 174:5(1743-8)2005 Nov

16104910. Pontari MA, McNaughton-Collins M, O'leary MP, Calhoun EA, Jang T, Kusek JW, Landis JR, Knauss J, Litwin MS, A case-control study of risk factors in men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome. BJU Int 96:4(559-65)2005 Sep

15310980. Pontari MA, Ruggieri MR, Mechanisms in prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. J Urol 172:3(839-45)2004 Sep

14751843. Pontari MA, Braverman AS, Ruggieri MR Sr, The M2 muscarinic receptor mediates in vitro bladder contractions from patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 286:5(R874-80)2004 May

14677006. Dandolu V, Mathai E, Chatwani A, Harmanli O, Pontari M, Hernandez E, Accuracy of cystoscopy in the diagnosis of ureteral injury in benign gynecologic surgery. Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct 14:6(427-31)2003 Dec

14651434. Pontari MA, Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in elderly men: toward better understanding and treatment. Drugs Aging 20:15(1111-25)2003

12149162. Karlovsky ME, Pontari MA, Theories of prostatitis etiology. Curr Urol Rep 3:4(307-12)2002 Aug

10411032. Pontari MA, Hanno PM, Ruggieri MR, Comparison of bladder blood flow in patients with and without interstitial cystitis. J Urol 162:2(330-4)1999 Aug

9950918. Pontari MA, Ruggieri MR, Sex differences and role of nitric oxide in blood flow of canine urinary bladder. Am J Physiol 276:2 Pt 2(R407-13)1999 Feb

9651883. Pontari MA, Luthin GR, Braverman AS, Ruggieri MR, Characterization of muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes in rat prostate. J Recept Signal Transduct Res 18:2-3(151-66)1998 Mar-May

9146013. Pontari MA, Hanno PM, Wein AJ, Logical and systematic approach to the evaluation and management of patients suspected of having interstitial cystitis. Urology 49:5A Suppl(114-20)1997 May

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Pontari: Office Urology: Temple Family Practice Review Course, Lancaster, PA Oct 1, 2004

Mydlo/Pontari: Transplantation Patients and Occurrence of Urologic Tumors: Presented to Glenn Whitman, MD and Transplantation Service, Dec 6, 2004

Pontari: Prostatitis and Well Being: Grand Rounds, Mt. Sinai, Baltimore, MD, Feb, 2005

Pontari: Kidney Stones: Temple Family Practice Review Course, Lancaster, PA, Mar. 18, 2005

Viterbo R, Chang D, Beltramo D, Pontari MA, Mydlo, JH: The Incidence of Genito-Urinary Malignancies in Post-Cardiac Transplant Recipients.
Podium presentation at the Philadelphia Urological Society Meeting, April 25, 2005, Philadelphia, PA

Braverman, A.S., Pontari, M.A. and Ruggieri, M.R. Spinal injury induced plasticity of human urinary bladder muscarinic receptor subtypes. The II International Congress on Neuroregeneration, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 19-24, 2004.

Chintakunta, R.N., Delalic, Z.J., Ruggieri, M.R. and Pontari, M.A. Electronic Nerve Stimulator Implant For Improving & Synchronizing Bladder Functions Biomedical Engineering Society, Philadelphia, October 16, 2004.

Ruggieri, M.R., Barbe, M., Braverman, A.S., D'Andrea, L., Kozin, S.H, Pontari, M.A., and Betz, R.R. Reinnervation of the canine urinary bladder by somatic nerve transfer. Program No. 310.11. 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Online.

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• Named Lead Investigator for NIH-sponsored CPPS trial of placebo vs. medical therapy for prostatitis
• Named Co-Chair of NIH-sponsored Chronic Prostatitis Workshop, Baltimore, MD - October 19-21, 2005
• Reviewer for the Journal of Urology, Urology and BJU International

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