Urology

Yale Urology is a group of doctors with superior skill in treating the most complicated urologic problems. We emphasize minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgical treatment whenever possible. Our surgeons specialize in surgical treatment of cancers, stone disease, children's disorders, male infertility and incontinence, and women's special urologic needs.

Cancers: kidney cancer, testicular cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, penile cancer

Reconstructive urology: continent urinary diversion; intestinal neo-bladders; microscopic vasectomy reversals

Pediatric urology: hypospadias, undescended testes, hydronephrosis, exstrophy, and tumors; renal anomalies; neurogenic bladders (spina bifida)

Neurourology: impotence, infertility, erectile dysfunction, incontinence, voiding dysfunction; benign prostatic hyperplasia; evaluation and management of patients with vesicourethral dysfunction

Stone Disease: treatment and prevention, including ESWL (extracorporeal shock wave)

Female urology: bladder control, urinary incontinence, interstitial cystitis, and vaginal anomalies.

Yale Urology seeks to understand normal urinary tract function and the changes which occur with aging and pathologic processes, i.e., diabetes, cancer, and inflammatory processes involving the urinary tract. We work to develop new and innovative therapeutic protocols for the management of these disorders, in collaboration with Yale Pediatrics, Nephrology, Pathology, Anesthesiology, Radiology and Pharmacology. For example, prostate cancer may be treated with a nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy or with template radioactive seed implantation. Retroperitoneal lymph node dissections using a nerve-sparing technique may preserve ejaculation after testicular cancer. Using percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration and testis biopsy, intracytoplastic sperm injection has been successful in achieving fertilization in couples with severe male factor infertility. Urinary incontinence may be evaluated using fluoroscopic cystometry, urethral profilometry, uroflowmetry, and electromyography, and treated with biofeedback. We also perform hand-assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomies; laparoscopic orchidopexy; and, laparoscopic cryoablation of renal tumors.

Our doctors see patients at Yale Physicians Building; perform operations at Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Veterans Administration Medical Center; train students, residents and fellows; and, conduct research into the pathophysiology of urologic diseases, disorders, and cancers.

Yale Urology is also:

• A Program accredited by the ACGME.
• A training ground for the best and brightest urologists. Urology Residency
• A cadre of dedicated researchers, who participate in national clinical trials. The Promise of Research

Robert Weiss, M.D.
Donald Guthrie Professor and Chief
Section of Urology
Department of Surgery
Yale University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208041
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8041

(203) 785-2815
(203) 785-4043, fax
robert.weiss@yale.edu

Section Chief

Robert M. Weiss, M.D., F.A.C.S., Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery and Chief more…