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Hunter Wessells MD, FACS

Hunter Wessells MD, FACS

Professor and Nelson Chair of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Hunter Wessells is a surgeon, researcher and expert on urogenital trauma, reconstructive surgery, and erectile dysfunction. Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Dr. Wessells is also President of UW Physicians, the practice plan for UW Medicine. He has served in professional and government advisory positions including the NIH Renal and Urological Sciences Study Section, Chair of the American Urological Association Guidelines Panel on Male Urethral Stricture,and member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Dr. Wessells is Program Director of a Fellowship in GU Trauma and Reconstruction and the UW's AUA Physician Scientist Research Training Award. He leads research funded by NIH investigating the risk factors and genetic susceptibility to erectile dysfunction and novel therapies for kidney stone disease.

An avid outdoors sportsman, Dr. Wessells rows a single shell, plays tennis with his family, and enjoys open water swimming in the Puget Sound. He also maintains an organic vegetable garden.

Disclosures

Dr. Wessells receives research grant support from the National Institutes of Health.

Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:

  1. Posterior Urethroplasty Complexity and Outcomes Following Pelvic Fracture Urethral Injury
  2. Extended Follow-Up of the AdVance XP Male Sling in the Treatment of Male Urinary Stress Incontinence
  3. Cellular Networks in Skin Repair and Wound Healing
  4. Acute Clinical Care for Transgender Patients
  5. 2018 Top Stories in Urology: Robotic Bladder Neck Reconstruction of Vesicourethral Anastomotic Stenosis After Radical Prostatectomy
  6. AUA 2018: Dr. Hunter Wessells' Session Recommendations for General Urology
  7. Causes of Artificial Urinary Sphincter Failure and Strategies for Surgical Revision
  8. 2017 Top Stories in Urology: To Realign or Not to Realign (After PFUI)?
  9. The Immediate Management of Pelvic Fracture Urethral Injury—Endoscopic Realignment or Cystostomy?
  10. AUA 2017; Dr. Hunter Wessells' Session Recommendations

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