The series on “Complex Penile Prosthesis Surgery” is edited by Prof. Martin Gross from Dartmouth Health Medical Center (USA), Prof. Jay Simhan from Fox Chase Cancer Center (USA), and Prof. David Barham from University of California (USA).
Martin Gross, MD
Section of Urology, Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
Dr. Martin Gross is an Assistant Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He is the Men’s Health specialist for Dartmouth Health. He graduated from UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School and completed his Urology residency at Boston University Medical Center. He subsequently completed a Men’s Health Fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He has coauthored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, videos and book chapters. His research publications have garnered multiple awards. He serves on a number of journal and specialty society boards, including the Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons and the Editorial Board of The Journal of Urology. He is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Sexual Medicine. He teaches about Men’s Health and provides penile prosthetic surgical training both domestically and internationally. His clinical interests include complex penile prosthesis surgery, penile prosthesis infection prevention, and the treatment of Peyronie’s disease, male stress urinary incontinence, chronic orchialgia and hypogonadism.
Jay Simhan, MD, FACS
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Department of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Dr. Jay Simhan is Professor of Urology and Director of Reconstructive Urology at Temple Health and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Additionally, he serves as Fellowship Director of the Society of GURS verified Male Reconstruction and Prosthetic Urology Program at Fox Chase.
Dr. Simhan graduated summa cum laude with highest honors and a BS degree in Chemistry from the UNC-Chapel Hill. After also obtaining his medical degree at UNC, he completed General Surgery and Urology residencies at Temple University Hospital and Fox Chase in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed additional fellowship training in Urologic Trauma, Reconstruction, and Prosthetics at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Simhan has completed additional executive leadership training at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an active and contributing member of the American Urologic Association, American College of Surgeons, Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons, Société Internationale d’Urologie, Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons, and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America.
Dr. Simhan’s clinical practice is dedicated to urethral stricture disease, open and robotic urinary tract reconstruction, penile implant surgery, male anti-incontinence surgery, revision male prosthetic surgery, Peyronie’s disease, and complications from urologic cancer treatment. He has lectured internationally on a variety of topics in urologic reconstruction, trauma, and prosthetics and is an invited international proctor for training programs in prosthetic urology. He has published chapters in many leading textbooks, including the definitive chapter on lower urinary tract trauma in the gold-standard textbook, Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology. Dr. Simhan has co-authored over200 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, and book chapters in leading journals including the Journal of Urology, Urology, European Urology, and the Journal of Sexual Medicine
David Barham, MD
Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California, USA
Dr. David Barham is a Fellow in the Eric S. Wisenbaugh Fellowship in Male Reconstructive Urology at the University of California, Irvine where he also serves as a Clinical Instructor. He graduated medical school from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) on the US Army Health Professions Scholarship Program. He completed residency in Urology at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI. He has co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications, abstracts, and book chapters. He reviews for several journals and is a member of Website Committee within the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He has clinical and research interests in the medical and surgical management of erectile dysfunction, Peyronie’s disease, testosterone deficiency, and lower urinary tract reconstruction.
Series outline:
- Salvage for penile prosthesis infection
- Management of SUI in Men Undergoing Penile Prosthesis
- Implanting into Corporal Fibrosis
- Penile Lengthening Procedures with Penile Prosthesis
- How to approach the complex penis penoscrotally
- How to approach the complex penis infrapubically
- Penile prosthesis in the medically complex patient
- Penile prosthesis in the mentally complex patient
- IPP in Priapism
- IPP in Peyronie's (a global overview)
- The Transgender IPP
Disclosure:
The special series “Complex Penile Prosthesis Surgery” was commissioned by the editorial office, Translational Andrology and Urology without any funding or sponsorship. Martin Gross, Jay Simhan, and David Barham are serving as the unpaid Guest Editors for the special series.