Note from the Division Chief
 

The Duke Health system continues to be the health provider of choice in Durham County and has identified the importance of being provider of choice within the Triangle, but also the referral choice statewide, and across the Southeast United States.   Projections both from the Health System as well from our internal research project that our faculty size will need to grow significantly over the next 3-5 years.   We are incredibly fortunate to have successfully recruited 4 new faculty to join us this upcoming year and for all of them it’s a bit of a homecoming per se.   Dr. Ashley Johnston is well-known to us in that she completed her residency training here at Duke before going to Indiana University to complete her pediatric fellowship at Riley Children’s Hospital.  She is “coming home” to join our pediatric urology team to grow our pediatric urology enterprise and will also provide the urologic expertise in the multi-disciplinary gender-affirming treatment and transition care-team.    Dr. Martus Gn will join us and be located on our Raleigh campus and will fill a huge need in providing general urology care to the fast-growing Wake County market.  Martus received his MD from Temple University (my alma mater!) and will be completing his urologic residency at Brown University.  He completed his undergraduate studies at Wake Forest so he too is “coming home” to North Carolina!  We were also incredibly fortunate to recruit three of our graduating fellows to join us and call Duke Urology “their home”.  Prior to coming to Duke, Dr. Rob Medairos completed his urologic training at Medical College of Wisconsin.  He will be joining our growing endourology team here in Durham.  Dr. Jordan Foreman received his MD and completed his urologic residency at the University of New Mexico.  He is completing his reconstructive fellowship here and will provide much needed general urology and reconstructive expertise on our Raleigh campus.  Finally, Dr. Vishnukamal Golla, who completed his Masters in Public Health at the University of Texas, Houston and urologic residency training at UCLA, is completing his National Clinician Scholars Program here at Duke.  He will continue his acting consultant role working on developing quality care and health equity payment models for primary and specialty care and will continue his clinical career at the Durham VA and maintain a Duke adjunct faculty appointment within the Department of Urology.   

As we transition from the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC), to the Duke Health Integrated Practice (DHIP), Duke Urology will be an eager partner in making sure that our growth goals are in line with the goals outlined by our newly formed integrated Duke Health system.