Nielsen Archives | Department of Urology

Dr. Matthew Nielsen, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department, was a panelist and contributing author to the American Urological Association’s new 2020 Guideline for the evaluation of hematuria, released this week. The guideline will be presented by panel co-Chairs at the AUA Live Virtual Experience at 3:45pm on Saturday, June 27.

It is with great pleasure that the UNC Urology Department announces the promotion of Interim Chair Dr. Matthew Nielsen to Professor with Tenure.

Matthew Nielsen, Interim Chair of Urology, has been appointed to support efforts to update the CMS Quality Measure Development Plan and Quality Measure Index.

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS assumed the role of Interim Chair of the Department of Urology on January 1, 2020. Nielsen joined the faculty at UNC in 2009 as a urologic oncologist and health services researcher.

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS, will assume the role of Interim Chair of the Department of Urology, effective January 1, 2020.

Hematuria, or blood in the urine, is commonly encountered in clinical practice, with over 2 million American patients referred to urologists annually. The association of this finding with occult urinary tract cancer led to the development of several guidelines, with differing recommendations for evaluation. A study led by investigators at UNC published in this week’s print edition of JAMA Internal Medicine explores the tradeoffs of these different approaches. Matthew Nielsen, Associate Professor of Urology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management, was the corresponding author for the study. Other UNC-affiliated investigators include Mihaela Georgieva, Stephanie Wheeler, and Daniel Erim, from the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Mathew Raynor from the Department of Urology.

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Urology, will serve as Chair of the American Urological Association Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee 2019-2022

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS Associate Professor of Urology and Director of the Division of Urologic Oncology, has been appointed co-director of Cross-Institutional Quality Improvement Implementation efforts with the High Value Practice Academic Alliance (HVPAA).

Dr. Matthew Nielsen was recently appointed by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) Board of Directors as the CMSS Representative to the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI). The PCPI, now independent from but principally supported by the AMA, focuses on measurement science, quality improvement, and registries, through the National Quality Registry Network. Together …

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New 2020 AUA Hematuria Guidelines

Interim Chair Dr. Matthew Nielsen Promoted to Professor with Tenure

Nielsen Appointed to CMS Technical Expert Panel

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS Assumes Role of Interim Chair of the Department of Urology

Nielsen named Interim Chair of Department of Urology

UNC-led Study Comparing Tradeoffs Between Benefit, Harm, and Cost In Hematuria Evaluation Published in JAMA Internal Medicine

Nielsen Appointed Chair of AUA Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS appointed co-director of HVPAA’s Cross-Institutional Quality Improvement Implementation

Nielsen appointed CMSS Representative to PCPI