Description
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent congenital and acquired benign and malignant urologic disorders of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra, and genitalia in infants, children, and adolescents using medical, endoscopic, and surgical approaches.
- • Teach or train pediatric residents, nurses, and clinical staff in pediatric urology.
- • Document and review pediatric histories, growth, voiding patterns, and prenatal findings.
- • Provide pediatric urology consultation to pediatricians, neonatologists, emergency physicians, and other specialists.
- • Refer patients to pediatric nephrology, oncology, endocrinology, genetics, or other services when needed.
- • Direct and supervise nurses, residents, advanced practice providers, and ancillary staff.
- • Treat urologic disorders with pediatric laparoscopy, robotics, endoscopy, or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
- • Manage lower urinary tract dysfunction with bladder retraining, catheterization programs, biofeedback, medications, or neuromodulation.
- • Prescribe and manage antibiotics and other medications for urinary tract infections, enuresis, and bladder-bowel dysfunction.
- • Perform surgeries such as orchiopexy, hypospadias repair, pyeloplasty, ureteral reimplantation, circumcision, and endoscopic valve ablation.
- • Evaluate and treat hydronephrosis, vesicoureteral reflux, neurogenic bladder, congenital anomalies, and pediatric kidney stones.
- • Order and interpret renal-bladder ultrasound, voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), MAG3 renogram, DMSA scan, and urodynamics.
- • Perform cystoscopy, ureteroscopy, and pediatric stent placement.
- • Provide prenatal and postnatal counseling for urologic conditions detected on fetal ultrasound.
- • Educate families on perioperative care, postoperative recovery, and long-term follow-up, including transition to adult care.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
