Medical School: Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY
Residency: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Residency: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Ruchika Talwar is a urologic oncologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Medical Director in the Episodes of Care Office, where she leads and operationalizes VUMC’s specialty value-based care programs, including Medicare models and the innovative MyHealth Bundles program. She is a residency graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, where she was affiliated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School. She completed a Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) fellowship and Masters of Management in Healthcare at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Talwar has served in several national leadership roles within organized medicine, including Chair of the American Urological Association's residents and fellows committee, the Health Policy, Young Urologic Oncologists, and Women in Urologic Oncology Committees of the SUO, and is currently the Fundraising Chair for the AUAPAC. She held the H. Logan Holtgrewe Legislative Fellowship in 2022, when she spent time working on Capitol Hill in the office of Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09). Dr. Talwar’s clinical practice includes both robotic and open approaches to urologic cancer surgery, with a focus on patient-centered care. Her academic work in health policy, value transformation, drug pricing, and costs of care has been published in several JAMA journals and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. She makes several trips a year to Washington, DC, meeting with Congressional representatives as a passionate advocate for improving the quality of care provided to patients in the US. 

Medical School: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Residency: San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Consortium, San Antonio, TX

Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Undergrad: Duke University
Medical School: Vanderbilt University
Favorite Case in Urology: Orchiectomy
Favorite OR Music: Country plus, funk and any band with a good horns section
Fun Fact: I hit my growth spurt in fifth grade, so I absolutely dominated middle school basketball.

Hometown: Spokane, Wash.
Undergrad: University of Washington
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Favorite Case in Urology: Urethroplasty
Favorite OR Music: Probably country, but I like everything!
Fun Fact: I have a pair of socks for almost every holiday

Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Undergrad: Haverford College
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Favorite Case in Urology: Buried penis repair
Favorite OR Music: Earth, Wind & Fire radio station
Fun Fact: I make a MEAN bacon, egg, and cheese (gouda) breakfast wrap crafted with garlic salt, parsley flakes, and jalapeño, everything bagel seasoning inside a pesto and Sriracha mayo-smeared tortilla.

Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Undergrad: Georgetown University
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Favorite Case in Urology: IPP Placement
Favorite OR Music: NOW That's What I Call Music! 4
Fun Fact: I once evacuated an airplane using the emergency slide

Undergrad: Cumberland University
Nursing School: Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Clinical Interests: Female Pelvic Medicine, Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery, Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery, Urinary Incontinence, Urodynamics

Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Fellowship: University of Michigan, Urologic Oncology and Translational Cancer Research
Clinical Interests: Elevated PSA, Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Testis Cancer

Dr. Tosoian specializes in the early diagnosis and management of urologic cancers. In addition to his role as a clinician and surgeon, he is a recognized leader in clinical and translational prostate cancer research. His early research demonstrated the safety of monitoring lower-risk prostate cancers on active surveillance, allowing appropriately selected patients to delay or avoid treatment altogether. His ongoing research has led to the development of new, non-invasive tools to guide cancer diagnosis and management. Dr. Tosoian leads the Prostate Cancer Risk Clinic, a clinical program for informed early screening in patients with a strong family history or known genetic mutation associated with prostate cancer. 

Medical School: University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Residency: New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center