3 days ago
UNC Urology continues to expand treatment options for patients with bladder cancer by offering several newly FDA-approved therapies—many of which were previously available through clinical trials conducted at UNC.
1 week ago
UNC Urology’s Dr. David Johnson recently participated in the American Urological Association’s 2026 Advocacy Summit, contributing to a national discussion on the evolving role of value-based care in urology.
2 weeks ago
Dr. Kathryn Hacker Gessner recently served as a plenary speaker at the 41st Annual European Association of Urology Congress, one of the largest and most influential gatherings of urologists and researchers in the world.
2 weeks ago
The UNC Department of Urology has named Dr. David Friedlander as its inaugural Director of Health Services Research. This newly established role reflects a growing recognition across academic medicine that improving how care is delivered is just as critical as the treatments themselves.
3 weeks ago
We are pleased to share that Dr. Marc Bjurlin has been named to the 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctors list for the first time.
3 weeks ago
In February 2026, the Department of Urology proudly hosted the inaugural “UNC Urology Culley C. Carson III, MD Visiting Professorship in Men’s Health,” a new academic tradition created to honor the legacy of one of the department’s most influential leaders while bringing distinguished experts in men’s health to Chapel Hill.
4 weeks ago
Dr. Minh Nguyen Pham, Assistant Professor of Urology, has been selected to serve as a faculty tutor for the Patient Centered Care (PCC) course within the UNC School of Medicine’s Medical Doctorate curriculum beginning in the Fall 2026 term. Dr. Pham will lead one of these small groups during the Foundation Phase of the medical curriculum, meeting weekly with students as they develop the clinical and professional skills that will shape their future patient care.
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UNC Urology is proud to welcome Dr. Renea Sturm, a board-certified pediatric urologist and translational scientist who brings a tradition of working closely with maternal-fetal medicine and pediatric subspecialists to ensure comprehensive, team-based care for infants, children, and adolescents with complex conditions of the kidneys, bladder, urethra, and genital development.
1 month ago
The Department of Urology at the UNC School of Medicine has been designated an official Single-Port (SP) Robotic Surgery Case Observation Site, placing UNC among fewer than 20 programs nationwide to receive this distinction from Intuitive.
1 month ago
Two current seniors, Katherine Poulos and Avani Desai, are part of a small group of students who will already know what is inside their Match envelopes. They are early match students, and they hope their opportunity to enter the historically male dominated world of urology will catch the attention of other young female students.
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Established in 2024, the ACS National Prostate Cancer Roundtable brings together leading institutions, professional organizations, advocacy groups, and health systems to address rising prostate cancer incidence and persistent disparities in care.
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Dr. Mary Beth Westerman, Associate Professor of Urology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been invited to present the updated 2025 microhematuria guidelines at the 50th Annual Internal Medicine Conference, hosted by the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine.