Urology Residency
Mission & Vision
Our program strives to train urologists whose actions embody a spirit of professionalism and humanism and who achieve clinical excellence in all aspects of operative and non-operative urology. Upon graduation from our program, residents are prepared to pursue any desired career path including fellowship, private practice or any combination of teaching, research and clinical service. Being located in one of the most diverse cities in the world, our program values diversity among our faculty and resident complement, and our trainees graduate from the program able to recognize and respond to the needs of patients from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Mission & Vision
Our program strives to train urologists whose actions embody a spirit of professionalism and humanism and who achieve clinical excellence in all aspects of operative and non-operative urology. Upon graduation from our program, residents are prepared to pursue any desired career path including fellowship, private practice or any combination of teaching, research and clinical service. Being located in one of the most diverse cities in the world, our program values diversity among our faculty and resident complement, and our trainees graduate from the program able to recognize and respond to the needs of patients from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Program Director’s Welcome
Thank you for your interest in our program. We look forward to showing you what makes us so proud of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Urology Residency Program and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Urology.
Program Director’s Welcome
Thank you for your interest in our program. We look forward to showing you what makes us so proud of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Urology Residency Program and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Urology.
In any residency training program, the focus must be on teaching future urologists how best to provide the highest quality of patient care. To be most effective, the faculty must cultivate both the resident’s knowledge of all urologic pathology and his or her surgical competency. We believe of equal importance is the necessity of ensuring that each resident is skillful at interacting meaningfully with each patient and the patient’s family, at interfacing successfully with other medical personnel and at productively exploring research questions. During the resident’s five years of urologic training, each resident must learn to examine pertinent medical ethical questions and relevant issues of cost containment with responsible use of resources, because both have an effect on patient care. In order to achieve these goals, we foster a teaching environment shaped by open communication, close supervision and regular evaluation.
Our training program, one of the busiest in the country, affords each resident a multifaceted experience. Within one square mile, a trainee has exposure to a 600-bed private tertiary care hospital (UHealth Tower, a University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility); one of the nation’s largest metropolitan hospitals with 1,498 beds and one of the busiest, state-of-the-art trauma centers in the country (Jackson Memorial Hospital); an active Veterans Administration Medical Center with 500 beds and a premier spinal cord unit (Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center) and a regional cancer center (Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center). Nearby, residents have a modern outpatient clinic and ambulatory surgery facility (The Lennar Foundation Medical Center) and one of the premier pediatric centers in the country (Nicklaus Children’s Hospital).
Largely a referral center, Jackson Memorial Hospital draws a diverse patient population from Central and South America, the Caribbean, South Florida and Northeastern “snowbirds,” as well as the Miami metropolitan area. This patient diversity helps the resident to receive a unique and comprehensive training experience.
The surroundings in which you train are an important aspect of selecting a residency program and Miami is a wonderful place to both work and live. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System.
-Robert Marcovich, MD
Description
Our training program, one of the busiest in the country, affords each resident a multifaceted experience. Within one square mile, a trainee has exposure to a 600-bed private tertiary care hospital (UHealth Tower, a University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility); one of the nation’s largest metropolitan hospitals with 1,498 beds and one of the busiest, state-of-the-art trauma centers in the country (Jackson Memorial Hospital); an active Veterans Administration Medical Center with 500 beds and a premier spinal cord unit (Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center) and a regional cancer center (Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center). Nearby, residents have a modern outpatient clinic and ambulatory surgery facility (The Lennar Foundation Medical Center) and one of the premier pediatric centers in the country (Nicklaus Children’s Hospital).
Largely a referral center, Jackson Memorial Hospital draws a diverse patient population from Central and South America, the Caribbean, South Florida and Northeastern “snowbirds,” as well as the Miami metropolitan area. This patient diversity helps the resident to receive a unique and comprehensive training experience.
The surroundings in which you train are an important aspect of selecting a residency program and Miami is a wonderful place to both work and live. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System.
-Robert Marcovich, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Residents per Year?
4
Duration of Residency?
5 years
Program Curriculum
Accordion
Resident education is a top priority in the Urology Residency Program. Didactic conferences include weekly grand rounds, Patient Safety & Quality Assurance Conference (formerly Morbidity & Mortality), boards review and bimonthly faculty-run seminars. Daily one-on-one intraoperative teaching is also stressed. Robotic surgical simulators are available at two of our hospitals. Monthly didactic sessions are provided to train residents in the methodology of patient safety and quality improvement, and include project support.
Grand rounds and case conferences occur on Thursday mornings. The department enjoys a very active visiting professor lecture program, with many prominent speakers featured throughout the year.
The first year of training consists of surgery rotations such as kidney transplant, trauma, general surgery, surgical ICU and plastic surgery, in addition to six months of urology rotations.
The following four years of clinical urology curriculum consists of graduated experience in adult and pediatric outpatient and inpatient urology. Rotations at four hospitals and two outpatient centers provide the resident with experience in the subspecialty domains of urologic oncology, endourology (stones and minimally invasive surgery), robotic surgery, female urology/neurourology, reconstructive/prosthetic urology and andrology, and men’s health. Residents have a dedicated four-month opportunity to explore research interests during the third year. Additionally, a dedicated two-month kidney transplant rotation in the fourth year provides valuable surgical experience.
Your Faculty
Dipen J. Parekh, MD
Chief Executive Officer,
UHealth – University of Miami Health System
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs,
University of Miami
Founding Director, Desai Sethi Urology Institute
The Victor A. Politano Endowed Chair in Urology
Mark L. Gonzalgo, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor & Chair, Department of Urology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Executive Director, Perioperative Surgical Services
University of Miami Health System
Robert Marcovich, MD
Associate Professor, Urology
Director, Urology Residency Program
Laura Horodyski, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology
Associate Program Director, Urology Residency Program
Katherine Amin, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology
Miguel Castellan, MD
Voluntary Assistant Professor
Richard C. Davi, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Urology
Rafael Gosalbez, MD
Director, Division of Urologic Surgery
Laura Horodyski, MD
Professor of Urology
Jonathan Katz, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology
Bruce R. Kava, MD
Professor of Clinical Urology
Thomas Masterson, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology
Chief, Urology Service, Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Ali Mouzannar, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology
Bruno Nahar Aragao de Oliveira, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Urology
Dani Papir, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Urology
Sanoj Punnen, MD
Professor of Urologic Oncology
Chad R. Ritch, MD, MBA
Professor, Urologic Oncology
Carlos Santa-Cruz, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Urology
Ramgopal Satyanarayana Konanur, MD
Associate Professor, Urology
Hemendra Shah, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Urology
Nima Sherifi, MD
Professor
Scientific Director, Desai Sethi Urology Institute
Sanjaya Kumar Swain, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Urology
Raveen Syan, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology
Gaetano Ciancio, MD
Professor, Director of Urologic Transplant Surgery
Andrew Labbie, MD
Attending – Pediatric Urology
Daniel Nassau, MD
Attending – Pediatric Urology
George Ransford, MD
Attending – Pediatric Urology
Alumni Placements Include:
Emory University
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
National Cancer Institute
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Moffitt Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Florida
Alumni Placements Include:
Emory University
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
National Cancer Institute
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Moffitt Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Florida