Welcome to this week’s advocacy episode of the AUA’s Inside Tract Podcast.

This week’s update includes a recap of the seventh annual Bladder Health Alliance Roundtable, news from the Friends of the NIDDK virtual briefing on racial and ethnic disparities, and the AUA’s recent activity with the Surprise Medical Billing Coalition. 

Bobby B. Najari, MD, joins the AUA Inside Tract Podcast to discuss male infertility take home messages from AUA2020. His article on this subject appeared in the August 2020 issue of AUANews.

Dr. Najari is a urologist with NYU Langone Health in New York. 

In this special presentation from the 2020 Annual Urology Advocacy Summit, Dr. Aaron Spitz is joined by Drs. Chad Ellimootil, Jonathan Rubenstein and Kara Watts to discuss urology's implementation of telemedicine, particularly how virtual visits have helped expand services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Douglas Strand joins the AUA Inside Tract Podcast to discuss benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) take home messages from AUA2020. His article on this subject appeared in the August 2020 issue of AUANews.

Dr. Strand serves as Assistant Professor with UT Southwestern Medical Center's Department of Urology in Dallas.

Welcome back to the AUA’s Inside Tract Podcast. This week’s episode includes updates on the Veteran’s Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act, and news on AUA meetings with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and federal lawmakers.

On today’s episode of the AUA Inside Tract, Dr. Kirsten Greene discusses advice for early-career urologists making a job change as part of her presentation at the 2020 Young Urologists Forum Live virtual program. Dr. Greene is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.

Learn more about the AUA Young Urologists Committee and watch a replay of the Forum by visiting AUAnet.org/YoungUrologists.

AUA's Public Policy Council Chair, Dr. Eugene Rhee, joins the AUA Inside Tract Podcast to discuss the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact on today's advocacy episode.

Dr. Rhee is Regional Coordinating Chief of Urology for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California and the National Chair of Urology for the Permanente Federation. He is a past president of the California Urological Association and the San Diego Urologic Society.

Dr. Anne Suskind joins the AUA Inside Tract Podcast to discuss female urology and urinary incontinence take home messages from AUA2020. Her article on this subject appeared in the August 2020 issue of AUANews.

Dr. Suskind is Associate Professor of Urology and Chief of Neurourology, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery at UCSF in San Francisco. 

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and as advocates around the globe unite in support of this important initiative, we’re using this advocacy edition of the AUA’s Inside Tract podcast to highlight the AUA’s latest coalition of patient advocacy groups, the Friends of the Prostate Cancer Care Community. 

Dr. Stanton Honig joins the AUA Inside Tract Podcast to provide us with some highlights from his recent article in AUANews regarding COVID-19 and Male Reproductive Health. Dr. Honig is is the Director of Men's Health and Clinical Professor of Urology at Yale University Medical School in New Haven, Conn.

Dr. Honig’s article appeared in the July 2020 edition of AUANews.