The Urological Institute of Northeastern New York

Donald A. Bentrovato, MD, FACS joined the Urological Institute after 33 years of private practice. He is a graduate of Union College and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine.

Dr. Bentrovato completed his surgical training at Columbia University School of Medicine and his training in general surgery at Dartmouth Medical Center. He completed additional training in urology at Albany Medical Center, where he also served as chief resident.

Dr. Bentrovato is a Diplomat of the American Board of Urology and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Endourologic Society, and the American Reproductive Society. His expertise is in general urology and sees patients at the Image Guided Radiation Therapy suite in Latham on Thursday afternoons.

Elise De, MD is one of the leading female doctors and surgeons in Albany. She is a fully board certified Urologist. Her fellowship training was in Voiding Dysfunction at the University of Texas Health Science Center and MD Anderson in Houston, TX.

The field is referred to as female urology, urogynecology, continence, and neurourology. A Female Urologist or Urogynecologist is a doctor who specializes in incontinence, uterine or bladder prolapse and urinary retention in women. In addition, due to her urology background, Dr. De’s residency and fellowship training focused on male post-prostatectomy incontinence and neurogenic bladder.

Dr. De has five years of post-residency experience in female urology, urogynecology, prolapse, neurogenic, bladder and post-prostatectomy incontinence. She has extensive clinical and surgical experience and has cured many patients with prior unsuccessful surgery.

In addition, Dr. De has written many scientific papers on female urology and has traveled nationally and internationally to present her research. She is currently an active Assistant Professor of Urology at Albany Medical Center, an active member of the prestigious Education Committee of the International Continence Society, serves as a reviewer for multiple scientific journals, and gives talks to local, regional, and national physician groups regarding bladder function. For women or men in the Albany, NY area with urinary problems, incontinence, or prolapse, Elise De, M.D. comes highly recommended.

Carl Diaz-Parker, RPA-C is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and the Center for Physician Assistant Studies at Albany Medical College. He has expertise in Family Medicine as well as Urology and has been practicing with the Urological Institute of Northeastern New York since 1999. His special medical interests include men’s health and wellness, erectile dysfunction and Peyronie’s disease.

Diaz-Parker sees patients for BPH, prostate cancer, renal cancer, and bladder cancer. He has authored/coauthored article including topics to include Epididymitis, Urethritis, and Prostatitis in the peer reviewed journal Clinicians Review. He has lectured at the Albany Medical College Center for Physician Assistant Studies, cancer survivor groups, and Continuing medical education seminars locally, regionally and even Nationally for the American Academy of Physician Assistants on Urological issues.

Emily Feauve, RPA-C completed her master's degree in physician assistant studies at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts in 2010. She is a certified and registered physician assistant.

She has worked at the Urological Institute of Northeastern New York since June, 2010. Under the supervision of our urologists, she sees patients for initial consultations and for long-term management of urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, recurrent urinary tract infections, neurogenic bladder, benign prostatic hyperplasia and genitourinary malignancies (renal, prostate, testicular, and bladder cancer). Emily also serves as a sub-investigator for our clinical trials for overactive bladder and genitourinary malignancies.

Hugh A.G. Fisher, MD, FACS specializes in cancer of the prostate, bladder, kidney, testis and penis. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Urology and the National Board of Medical Examiners, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Fisher is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received his medical degree from St. Louis University. He completed his residency training in Surgery at the University of Vermont and in Urological Surgery at the Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany, New York. Dr. Fisher also served as a Special Fellow in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer Center, New York. He has served as Principal Investigator for more than a dozen clinical trials and is a nationally recognized expert in his field and frequent speaker at clinical meetings across the country.

Dr. Fisher has published close to 50 peer reviewed articles and serves as a Reviewer for such prestigious journals as JAMA, Cancer and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Fisher is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Albany Medical College, Division of Urological Surgery.

Karla Giramonti, RN, MS, FNP, sees urology patients of all ages including from consults for prenatal hydronephrosis. In children, she specializes in incontinence, enuresis, bedwetting and voiding dysfunction, as well as urinary tract infections and vesicoureteral reflux. She also cares for adults with urological problems, including renal calculi, prostate problems like BPH and urinary incontinence. She also speaks locally and nationally on a variety of urological topics. She has presented her research at the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Urology Nursing Society.

Jean Hollowell, MD practices pediatric urology which includes surgical reconstruction for all congenital and acquired problems of the genito-urinary tract in infants and children. Dr. Hollowell holds full certification in urology and subspecialty certification in pediatric urology from the American Board of Urology. Following residency in urology at the Lahey Clinic and Boston’s Children’s Hospital, she completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric urology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Hollowell did her research fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, England. She was the first to study detrusor function and publish on urodynamic investigations in children born with bladder exstrophy and received one of the five senior registrar fellowships awarded each year in the UK from Action Research for the Crippled Child. Following the fellowship in London, she joined the faculty of the School of Medicine at Tulane University where she was named the JU Schlegal Research Scholar and was awarded a grant from the American Foundation of Urologic Disease for study of kidney damage with vesicoureteral reflux.

Subsequently, Dr. Hollowell went into private practice but remained active in academic work. She has given presentations locally, nationally and internationally, has published papers and has been invited to review and write editorial comments for multiple scientific urology journals. Her work in the area of vesicoureteral reflux during the last decade challenged the long held assumption that screening for reflux in asymptomatic children was beneficial. She was an invited speaker at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in 2005 to discuss this topic. However, what she loves most about pediatric urology is working with children and having the opportunity to make a difficult time a little easier for them. She has sixteen years of experience in this field and has performed many reconstructive surgeries for hypospadias and other anomalies of the genitalia, kidneys and bladder.

Dr. Hollowell moved to this area in 2009 for the position of Associate Professor in Urology, joining the distinguished faculty in Urology at Albany Medical Center.

Ronald P. Kaufman, Jr., MD, FACS, is a graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut and received his medical degree from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Kaufman completed his internship in general surgery at Case Western Reserve-Integrated Hospitals of Cleveland and a research fellowship at The Harvard Medical School-Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. His additional residency training in urologic surgery was completed at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

Dr. Kaufman is a Diplomate of the American Board of Urology. He has served as Principal Investigator or Sub Investigator on more than 45 clinical trials. He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and served as a reviewer for numerous journals including Journal of Urology. Dr. Kaufman’s expertise is in BPH, Erectile Dysfunction and Oncology with special emphasis on laparoscopic oncology including laparoscopic nephrectomy and robotic prostatectomy. Dr. Kaufman is Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery and Assistant Professor of Physiology & Cell Biology, Department of Physiology at Albany Medical College.

Barry A. Kogan, MD is the Chief, Division of Urology, Albany Medical College. He went to Medical School at Northwestern University and did his residency at the University of Michigan. After a fellowship in Pediatric Urology in Liverpool, England, he joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where he was promoted from Assistant Professor to Professor of Urology and Pediatrics over 15 years. In 1997, he became the Chief of the Division of Urology in Albany.

Dr. Kogan continues to have an active clinical practice in Pediatric Urology, with a wide range of primary to tertiary care cases. These include the full range of pediatric urology, including hypospadias, undescended testes (cryptorchidism), hernias, childhood neurogenic bladder, urinary tract infections, vesicoureteral reflux, prenatal and neonatal hydronephrosis and adolescent varicocele.

Dr. Kogan is a well-recognized educator, having been awarded the “Silver Scalpel” award as the best surgical teacher. He has also led a strengthening of the residency program in Urology, received 5-year accreditation with a note of commendation from the Residency Review Committee.

Dr. Kogan is also an active investigator with experience in NIH funded basic and clinical research, investigator initiated clinical research and industry-sponsored clinical trials. He has published extensively in many areas of pediatric urology and investigative urology. In addition, he has contributed to many local, national and international organizations as lecturer, committee member and Chair. He is a past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Urology and past President of the Northeastern Section of the American Urological Association. He is currently a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Residency Review Committee for Urology and a trustee of the American Board of Urology.

Dr. Kogan is currently a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the Albany Medical College and Chief of the Division of Urology. He holds the Falk Chair in Urology at the Albany Medical College.

Andrew McCullough, MD obtained his medical degree from the University of Maryland. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Florida School of Medicine, followed by a residency in urology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland. Dr. McCullough finished his education as a W.W. Scott Research Fellow with the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Andrew McCullough is an internationally recognized expert in sexual health and has presented his research work in sexual dysfunction and male infertility at conferences throughout the world, including major cities in Asia, Mexico, and Hawaii. Dr. McCullough has served as a consultant for pharmaceutical companies to investigate medical therapies for the treatment of male and female sexual dysfunction. Dr. McCullough has served as Principal Investigator or Sub-Investigator on more than 40 clinical trials.

Dr. McCullough’s work on sexual health has been extensively published and he has received several awards in his specialized field. In addition, he has contributed to many interviews as an expert for media sources including CBS Evening News, CNBC, ABC Good Morning America, and SIRIUS Radio. In addition, he has contributed to many local, national and international organizations as lecturer, committee member and Board Member, including the Media Advisory Committee of the Gamete Bank at the Program for IVF New York University and The Institutional Review Board of New York University. Dr. McCullough has served as a clinical instructor in Urology at many locations throughout his career. He hails from New York University where he practiced for 17 years on the full time urology faculty. He was Director of Male Sexual Health, Fertility and Microsurgery and will be heading the Andrology Division in the Department of Urology at AMC. He has also served as a reviewer of numerous medical journals, including Journal of Urology, International Journal of Impotence Research, and Asian Journal of Andrology.

Dr. McCullough has special interest in male infertility, male sexual dysfunction, premature ejaculation, Peyronie's Disease, and Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy.

Badar M. Mian, MD, FACS, has a special interest in the treatment of cancers of the genito-urinary system. Dr. Mian received his residency training in both Surgery and Urology at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Urology.

Dr. Mian completed fellowship training in Urologic Oncology and Cancer Biology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he also served as a Clinical Faculty Associate. Dr. Mian specializes in cancers of the prostate, kidney and bladder as well as the use of laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery for kidney and prostate cancer.

Dr. Mian serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Urology at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. He is very active in clinical research in the treatment outcomes for prostate cancer. In addition, he has received funding to conduct basic molecular research to understand the biologic behavior of bladder cancer. Dr. Mian has authored a number of book chapters on prostate and testis cancers and serves as a reviewer for a number of major journals. He has published numerous articles on prostate and bladder cancer in prestigious peer-reviewed publications and has lectured frequently on these subjects at national and international meetings.

Donald Rivard, MD, FACS, is a cum laude graduate of Saint Louis University, where he also received his medical degree in 1973. Dr. Rivard’s received surgical residency training as well as his urological specialty training at Albany Medical Center.

He is a diplomat of the American Board of Urology. He was Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Urology until 1985 when he became the urologic surgeon for Community Health Plan-later Kaiser Permanente. After several years in community practice, Dr. Rivard joins the Urological Institute of Northeastern New York concentrating mainly in the clinical practice of urology at multiple office practice sites utilizing ambulatory and outpatient surgical facilities.

Dr. Rivard’s fields of expertise include male sexual health, male infertility, stone disease, urinary incontinence, urinary infections and urologic cancer screening.

Mark White, MD is one of the leading endourologists in Upstate New York. He is fully board-certified by the American Board of Urology. He specializes in the treatment of adult and pediatric kidney stone disease and has extensive experience with laser lithotripsy and percutaneous stone removal procedures. He was also one of the first physicians in the area to perform laparoscopic renal surgery. In the past 13 years, he has performed over 2000 ureteroscopic stone removal procedures and over 400 percutaneous stone removal procedures for treatment of complex stone disease. Our center is a referral center for patients who have failed previous stone removal techniques and come to the Urological Institute of Northeastern New York for treatment.

Dr. White also has great interest in the treatment of male erectile dysfunction and has previous research experience with animal models for hypercholesterolemia and the effects on sexual function. He also has experience with the management of penile curvature (Peyronie's disease) with both medical and surgical treatment options. Dr. White has an extremely busy clinical practice, but also performs clinical research and helps train urology residents as the Education Program Director for the urology residency training program.

Dr. White also travels nationally and internationally to present his research and serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals. Dr. White has a keen interest in medical ethics and serves on the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Albany Medical Center.