- Tuesday, October 17, 2023
- VIRTUAL
Dartmouth Health
Martin Gross, MD 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 Journal of Urology and the Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons. 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.
University of California Irvine
Dr. Yafi is Associate Professor of Urology, Chief of the Division Men’s Health and Reconstructive Urology, Director of Men’s Health and Newport Urology at the University of California, Irvine. His practice is specialized in men’s health, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, Peyronie’s disease, prosthetic surgery, male voiding dysfunction/enlarged prostate and male infertility.
Dr. Yafi earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut. He then served his internship in General Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and subsequently completed his residency in Urology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He then completed a two year fellowship in Andrology, Sexual Medicine and Prosthetic Urology at Tulane University. Dr. Yafi is certified by the American Board of Urology and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
Dr. Yafi serves on numerous national and international society committees as both member and chair. With the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, he serves as chair of the Website Committee and has served as chair of the Abstract Review Committee for the 2017 annual meeting. He was the co-chair of the Scientific Committee for the 2020 annual meeting and chair of the Scientific Committee for the 2021 meeting. With the International Society for Sexual Medicine, he has served two terms as chair of the Grants and Prizes committee, one term as chair of the Consultation and Guidelines committee and is currently Chair of the Scientific Review committee. With the Société Internationale d’Urologie, he has served as chair of the Office of Education. Finally, he is a member of the American Urological Association Priapism guidelines. Dr. Yafi also serves as editor in chief of the Video Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Dr. Yafi is the director of the International Advanced Male Prosthetics and the Advanced Men’s Health courses held yearly at UCI since 2018, was chair of the penile prosthetic courses at the Société Internationale d’Urologie congresses in Korea in 2018 and Greece in 2019 and was chair of the inflatable penile prosthesis course at the 2020 SMSNA meeting. Dr Yafi was also faculty member for 2 instructional courses at the 2022 AUA meeting (Reconstructive Urology for the General Urologist; Evaluation and Management of Peyronie’s Disease) and again at the 2023 AUA meeting (Reconstructive Urology for the General Urologist).
Dr. Yafi has an avid interest in both basic and clinical research. He has contributed more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, educational guidelines and book chapters, has been invited as a visiting professor and a speaker at multiple national and international venues, and has received multiple national and international awards and recognitions, including the University of California Irvine Rising Stars award in 2020 and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America Young Investigator Award of Excellence in 2022. Along with his wife Natalie, he is the co-editor of a book entitled “Effects of Lifestyle on Men’s Health."
Dr. Petar Bajic is the Center Director for Men's Health at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. A board-certified urologist with fellowship training in men's sexual and urinary dysfunction, he also serves as an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Dr. Bajic is the chair of the Young Clinicians Committee of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America and holds committee appointments in several national and international professional organizations. He is an avid researcher in the areas of sexual and urinary dysfunction, and is involved in patient advocacy efforts on the national and state levels.
Dr. Bajic specializes in treating men for erectile dysfunction, Peyronie’s disease (penile curvature), sexual and urinary dysfunction due to cancer treatment, low testosterone, vasectomy, and prostate issues.
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Sevann Helo is an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at Mayo Clinic. She serves as co-director of the Men’s Health Andrology fellowship and associate program director of the Urology residency program. Her areas of expertise are male infertility, sexual medicine, and management of benign testicular conditions. Her clinical interests include utilization of office-based surgery for everything from hydrocelectomy to vasectomy reversal and microsurgical testicular sperm extraction. She is the only academic urologist in the country offering patients in-office vasectomy reversal and microdissection of testicular sperm extraction. She is chair of the Website Committee for the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction and serves on the Medical Review Board for SELF Magazine.
Male Fertility and Peyronie's Clinic
Dr. Landon Trost is a Urologist and affiliate faculty at Brigham Young University, specializing in vasectomy reversals, Peyronie’s Disease, and male infertility. He is the Director of the Male Fertility and Peyronie’s Clinic and the President of the charity, CURE PD. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is currently serving on the American Urological Association Guideline Panel for Hypogonadism, Peyronie’s Disease, and Priapism, Vice-chair of the Education Committee for the International Society of Sexual Medicine, Secretary for the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, a member for the American Board of Urology Examination Committee, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Dr. Matthew Ziegelmann is a Urologist specializing in male sexual dysfunction and infertility (Andrology) in the Department of Urology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He received his bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Economics at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND. He obtained his medical degree (M.D.) from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. During his medical school training he was inducted in the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor societies. He completed a residency in urology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He then continued his sub-specialty training in male sexual dysfunction and infertility (Andrology) at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. He is an active member of the American Urological Association, North Central Section, and Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He has published extensively on male sexual dysfunction and speaks nationally and internationally on topics including Peyronie’s disease and erectile dysfunction.