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Graduate Medical Education
Residency in Urology
Faculty & Housestaff

The department currently has eight full-time equivalent faculty and four residents. In addition, there are four part-time faculty. The ratio of faculty to trainee is approximately 2 to 1.

Faculty members include:


Charles F. McKiel, Jr., MD

Chairman and Program Director
Professor and Senior Attending


Dennis A. Pessis, MD

Professor and Associate Attending


Laurence A. Levine, MD

Professor and Associate Attending


Christopher L. Coogan, MD

Associate Professor and
Associate Attending


Shahid Ekbal, MD

Assistant Professor and
Associate Attending


Jerome Hoeksema, MD

Assistant Professor and
Associate Attending


Lev Elterman, MD

Assistant Professor and
Assistant Attending


Kalyan Latchamsetty, MD

Assistant Professor and
Assistant Attending


Members of the 2009-2010 housestaff include:


Taylor, Fredrick - PGY 5
Medical School:
  Ohio State University
Undergraduate School:
  Case Western University


Abern, Michael - PGY 4
Medical School:
  Rush Medical College
Undergraduate School:
  University of Illinois –
  Urbana/Champaign


Benson, Jonas - PGY 3
Medical School:
  University of Missouri -
  Columbia
Undergraduate School:
  University of Iowa


Rybak, James - PGY 2
Medical School:
  Southern Illinois University
Undergraduate School:
  University of Illinois –
  Urbana/Champaign


Larsen, Stephen - PGY 1
Medical School:
  Rush Medical College
Undergraduate School:
  University of Illinois -
  Urbana/Champaign


Recent Rush University graduates:

  • Kurt Strom 2009 Fellowship: Endourology - University of Oklahoma Oklahoma City, OK
  • Matthew Lux 2008 Fellowship: Endourology - University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY
  • Jeffrey LaRochelle 2007 Fellowship in Urologic Oncology - UCLA Los Angeles, CA
  • Jason Greenfield 2006 Fellowship in Andrology - Duke University Durham, NC
  • David Sobel 2005 Private practice
  • Kalyan Latchamsetty 2004 Fellowship Minimally Invasive Oncology - Virginia Mason Seattle, WA
  • Carlos Estrada 2003 Fellowship: Pediatric Urology - Harvard Children's Hospital Boston, MA





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