This project maps the diaspora of NYU Langone Health Department of Urology graduates — every resident and fellow we can document — with their current city, subspecialty, fellowship, leadership roles, and bibliometrics. It also records the department's history and faculty achievements since the residency era began under Robert Hotchkiss in 1948. Everything is draft until verified; no data is fabricated.
Department history & faculty achievements
Residency era forward. The modern department traces to Meredith Campbell (late 1930s); the continuously documented residency runs from Robert Hotchkiss's chairmanship in 1948–49. The 19th-century founders are out of scope. George F. Cahill (Columbia) and Oswald Lowsley (Cornell/Brady) are not NYU chairs and are excluded despite appearing on an older NYU history page.
Notable firsts & legacy
- "The bible of urology." Meredith Campbell authored the 3-volume Urology (1954) — now Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology, the field's definitive reference — plus the first major U.S. pediatric urology textbook (1937).
- Founding the Gold Journal. Pablo A. Morales founded the journal Urology in 1973 as its founding editor; AUA Gold-Headed Cane Award (2013).
- NYU's first kidney transplant. Salah Al-Askari performed NYU's first successful cadaveric kidney transplant (1967) and established Bellevue's chronic hemodialysis unit.
- BPH pharmacology. Herbert Lepor characterized the prostate alpha-1 adrenoceptor, foundational to the modern medical treatment of BPH; AUA Gold Cystoscope Award (1995).
- Uroplakins. Tung-Tien Sun and Xue-Ru Wu's discovery and foundational work on uroplakins shaped the modern understanding of the bladder's urothelial barrier.
- Prostate MRI biopsy. Samir Taneja pioneered clinical pre-biopsy prostate MRI and MRI-ultrasound fusion-targeted biopsy.
- Bellevue heritage. Bellevue Hospital established the nation's first urologic ward (1877), the root of the department's teaching lineage.
Chair lineage & milestones
Current department faculty
The current NYU urology faculty (Manhattan: Tisch / Bellevue / Manhattan VA, plus noted NYU Langone-Brooklyn appointments), with the year each joined. Chair Herbert Lepor appears in the lineage above. Portraits courtesy of the NYU urology history project.
Former NYU Manhattan faculty (now elsewhere)
About this project and corrections. All information here is compiled from
publicly available sources (institutional and practice profiles, society pages, PubMed, and archival records) and is presented as a draft for informational and educational purposes. Headshots are drawn from public professional profiles. This is not an official NYU Langone publication. If you find an error, or would like your entry updated or removed, please contact
Lee Zhao at lee.zhao@nyulangone.org.