Education: Residency: Our Residents

Our Residents

Class of 2026

  • Will Furuyama, MD

    Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
    Undergrad: Brown University
    Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: Urethroplasty with buccal mucosa graft and gracilis flap
    Favorite OR Music: Anything, but especially pop divas (of any decade)
    Fun Fact: In elementary school, my dream was to train sea otters.

    Trainee Spotlight Interview March 2022

  • Lani Galloway, MD

    Hometown: McLean, VA
    Undergrad: University of Virginia
    Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: Radical cystectomy with neobladder
    Favorite OR Music: Anything that you can sing along to! But if I had to choose one thing, I'd say Motown, especially Stevie Wonder
    Fun Fact: My high school mascot was a snail- go go escargot!

    Trainee Spotlight Interview October 2021

  • Kate Hanson, MD

    Hometown: Rochester, MN
    Undergrad: University of St. Thomas
    Medical School: University of Minnesota
    Favorite Case in Urology: Bladder augment and Mitrofanoff
    Favorite OR Music: 90s throwbacks!
    Fun Fact: I have an exceptional talent for the wiffle ball toss at the Minnesota State Fair

    Trainee Spotlight Interview January 2022

  • Bryn Launer, MD

    Hometown: Boise, Idaho
    Undergrad: Pomona College
    Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: Robotic Partial Nephrectomy
    Favorite OR Music: Kygo Radio or 2000's Pop
    Fun Fact: I love jigsaw puzzles - I can do a 1000 piece puzzle without looking at the box in a day

    Trainee Spotlight Interview February 2022

Class of 2027

  • Levi Bowers, MD

    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

    Trainee Spotlight Interview December 2022

  • Veerain Gupta, MD

    Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, FL
    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 5th grade so I absolutely dominated middle school basketball

    Trainee Spotlight Interview October 2022

  • Neil Menon, MD

    Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
    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

    Trainee Spotlight Interview November 2022

  • Delaney Orcutt, MD

    Hometown: Spokane, WA
    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

    Trainee Spotlight Interview September 2022

Class of 2028

  • Charlie Ferreri, MD

    Hometown: Goodrich
    Undergrad: University of Michigan
    Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School
    Favorite Case in Urology: Orchiopexy
    Favorite OR Music: Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer
    Fun Fact: I love to bake and can make a mean cheesecake!

    Trainee Spotlight Interview October 2023

  • Alyssa Hardin, MD

    Hometown: Bend, Oregon
    Undergrad: University of Oregon
    Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School
    Favorite Case in Urology: Robotic pyeloplasty
    Favorite OR Music: Leon Bridges or Summer Hits of the 2000s
    Fun Fact: I graduated high school in China but I regrettably have no Mandarin skills to show for it

    Trainee Spotlight Interview September 2023

  • Justin Mehr, MD

    Hometown: Mission Viejo, CA
    Undergrad: University of California, Irvine
    Medical School: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth - Houston
    Favorite Case in Urology: Inflatable penile prosthesis placement
    Favorite OR Music: late 90's/early 2000's (*NSync Radio on Spotify... perfection)
    Fun Fact: I won the 2005 Orange County Spelling Bee (crumbled under pressure in regionals on "vernacular")

    Trainee Spotlight Interview August 2023

Class of 2029

  • Brian Cortese, MD

    Hometown:  Kennett Square, PA
    Undergrad: Northeastern University
    Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
    Favorite Case in Urology: Radical orchiectomy
    Favorite OR Music: Indie/Modern Folk (Noah Kahan, Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver)
    Fun Fact: My hometown is the Mushroom Capital of the World!

    Trainee Spotlight Interview: October 2024

  • Ashley Pittman, MD

    Hometown:  Waukegan, IL
    Undergrad: University of Kentucky
    Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
    Favorite Case in Urology: Varicocelectomy
    Favorite OR Music: Drake or 90s-2000s R&B
    Fun Fact: I am currently teaching myself to DJ via Youtube.

    Trainee Spotlight Interview August 2024

Class of 2030

  • Rachel Gross, MD

    Hometown: Schererville, Ind.
    Undergrad: Vanderbilt University
    Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: RALP
    Favorite OR Music: Lightning 100, Nashville's best radio station!
    Fun Fact: I worked on a farm before medical school.

  • Ian McElree, MD

    Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Undergrad: University of Iowa
    Medical School: University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: TURBT
    Favorite OR Music: House, hip hop, 60s protest
    Fun Fact: I ended up in a case report as a kid after a glued head wound didn't heal properly.

  • Whitney Richardson, MD

    Hometown: Crossville, Tenn.
    Undergrad: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: Hydrocelectomy
    Favorite OR Music: 50s and 60s (e.g. Sinatra, Elvis) or country 
    Fun Fact: I have danced with the Radio City Rockettes!

  • Jennifer Zack, MD

    Hometown: Newtown Square, Penn.
    Undergrad: Georgetown University
    Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: Bladder augment
    Favorite OR Music: ABBA radio
    Fun Fact: I hiked (and slept overnight!) on an active volcano in Guatemala. It erupts every 15 minutes and is appropriately named "Fuego."

  • Derick Zhang, MD

    Hometown: Boca Raton, Fla.
    Undergrad: Case Western Reserve University
    Medical School: Vanderbilt School of Medicine
    Favorite Case in Urology: IVC thrombectomy, ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy
    Favorite OR Music: 2000s throwbacks: Lady Gaga, Rihanna and most EDM
    Fun Fact: I come from a long lineage of opera singers, but I am extremely tone deaf. I still love to sing karaoke with friends. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" is my song.

Former Residents

2024-2025 Class

Tiwa Akinsola
Leah Chisholm
Taryn Ellis
Natalie Pace

2023-2024 Class

Jackson Cabo - Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship - Mayo Clinic
Craig Hill - Private Practice, Manchester Urology Associates
Ali Jardaneh - Private Practice, Maine General Urology
Christy Peterson - Private Practice, University of Kansas Saint Francis

2022-2023 Class

Bola Ayangbesan - Texas Urology Specialists, The Woodlands & Houston Willbrook
Rohan Bhalla - GURS Fellowship - University of Colorado
George Koch - GURS Fellowship - University of Washington
Jacob Tallman - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2021-2022 Class

Marybeth Hall - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Carolinas Medical Center Atrium Health
Ben Stone - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Massachusetts General Hospital
Wilson Sui - Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship - University of California, San Francisco
Alice Wang - Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Urology Fellow - Medical University of South Carolina

2020-2021 Class

Josh Calvert - Urology Associates - Nashville, TN
Joel Hancock - Maggie Valley Urology - Twin Falls, ID
Heather Huelster - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Moffitt Cancer Center
Daniel Joyce - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Mayo Clinic

2019-2020 Class

Benjamin Dropkin - Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship - UT Southwestern
Elizabeth Green - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Moffitt Cancer Center
Caroline Kang - Male Repoductive Medicine and Surgery Fellowship - Weill Cornel Medical Center
Peter Reisz - Urologic Oncology Fellowship - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2018 – 2019 Class

Cyrus Adams – Pediatric Urology Fellowship – Indiana University
Svetlana Avulova – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – Mayo Rochester
Anne Darves-Bornoz – Andrology – University of Chicago
Rachel Sosland – Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery – University of Texan Southwestern

2017 – 2018 Class

Gabriel Fiscus – Private Practice – South Carolina
Lara Matheson – Private Practice – Texas
David Moore – Private Practice – Indiana

2016 – 2017 Class

Jacob Ark – Private Practice – Missouri 
Justin Gregg – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – MD Anderson
Niels Johnson – MGURS & Trauma Fellowship – University of Washington
Stephen Kappa – Private Practice – Ohio

2015 – 2016 Class

Deborah Jacobson – Pediatric Urology Fellowship – University of Chicago
Zachary Reardon – Private Practice – Alabama
Shreyas Joshi – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – Fox Chase Philadelphia
Dominic Tang – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – Moffitt Cancer Center

2014 – 2015 Class

Catherine Harris – FPMRS Fellowship – University of Texas Southwester
Trisha Kammann – Private Practice – New Hampshire
C.J. Stimson – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – Johns Hopkins
Harras Zaid – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – Mayo Rochester

2013 – 2014 Class

Sara Faris Fraumann – GURS Fellowship – University of Iowa
Samuel Kaffenberger – Urologic Oncology Fellowship – Memorial Sloan-Kettering
James Raybourn – Private Practice – Indiana
Anne Scott – Private Practice - Alabama

2012 – 2013 Class

Christopher Anderson    
Judson Davies    
Ekene Enemchukwu    
Sanjay Patel    

2011 – 2012 Class

Gregory Broughton        
Kelly Stratton    
Ian Thompson III

2010 – 2011 Class

Robert Mitchell II        
James Thomasch
Benjamin Whittam

2009 – 2010 Class

Kelly Boudreaux        
Dena Strube Engel
Michelle Koski

2008 – 2009 Class

Benjamin Coons        
John Duffy III
Andrew Stec

2007 – 2008 Class

William Lowrance        
Jon Rumohr
Sergei Tikhonenkov

2006 – 2007 Class

Christopher Girasole        
Charlie Jung
Melissa Kaufman

2005 – 2006 Class

Scott Farnham
J. Matthew Hassan        
Bradford Nelson

2004 – 2005 Class

Matthew Shuford        
Jeffrey O’Conner
Dipen Parekh

2003 – 2004 Class

Kent Adkins            
Travis Clark
Emily Cole

2002 – 2003 Class

Gregory Alberts            
Randall Nixon

2001 – 2002 Class

Sajal Dutta            
David Grossklaus

2000 – 2001 Class

W. Barritt Gilbert        
Paul Pietrow

1999 – 2000 Class

R. Wayne Hatfield        
Jeffrey Holzbeierlein

1998 – 1999 Class

Bradley Stoneking        
Elizabeth Yerkes

1997 – 1998 Class

Sam Chang            
David Miller

1996 – 1997 Class

Jeff Flickinger            
Jobe Metts III

1995 – 1996 Class

Leonid Kotkin            
Forrest Schrum III

1994 – 1995 Class

Roy Brandell            
John Pope IV

1993 – 1994 Class

Jenny Franke            
J. Bruce Robertson

1992 – 1993 Class

David Coussens            
M. Craig Hall

1991 – 1992 Class

Stephen Dahlstedt        
J. Stephen Jones

1990 – 1991 Class

Mark Flora            
Howard Follis

1989 – 1990 Class

Raoul Concepcion        
Samuel Watkins Jr. 

1988 – 1989 Class

W. Terry Stallings        
John Wofford IV

1987 – 1988 Class

Benjamin Hines            
Courtney Shands III

1986 – 1987 Class

Rodney Dennis            
Michael Koch
Randall Falk

1985 – 1986 Class

Ned Novsam            
Hal Liddell

1984 – 1985 Class

Robert Dray            
Edward Zagula

1983 – 1984 Class

James West Jr.             
Linza Killion

1982 – 1983 Class

Arthur Pinto            
John Brock III

1981 – 1982 Class

Bruce Lowe            
John Warner

1980 – 1981 Class

Ruskin Brown            
J. Michael Plunkett

1979 – 1980 Class

J. Kim Bauriedel            
William Jones

1978 – 1979 Class

William Freeborn        
David Morgan

1977 – 1978 Class

Joseph Breslin            
Claude Workman

1976 – 1977 Class

Robert Faber            
John Rawl

1975 – 1976 Class

Thomas McNamara        
Robert Sewell

1974 – 1975 Class

Keith Hagan            
Frederick Kirchner Jr.

1973 – 1974 Class

Nicholas Viner            
Stephen Butler

1972 – 1973 Class

Steven Wilson            
Michael Spalding

1971 – 1972 Class

Richard Tapper    
Ronald Allison

1970 – 1971 Class

Richard Elliott            
Jack Sapolsky

1969 – 1970 Class

Adalberto Rodriguez        
Winborn Willingham

1968 – 1969 Class

R. Maxie McCoy            
Donald Mode

1966 – 1967 Class

Robert Edwards

1965 – 1966 Class

Alfred Turman    

1964 – 1965 Class

J. Douglas Trapp

1963 – 1964 Class

Edward Lee