Becoming a Next-Gen Urologist
08/04/22 • 14 min
Matthew Katz was at Weill Cornell Medicine when a chance digital encounter ended up steering him into urology.
“If you had asked me what a urologist did before medical school I probably wouldn’t have been able to answer the question,” he told me self-deprecatingly when we chatted at the American Urological Association’s annual conference in New Orleans.
But a blast email to the entire medical school looking for people interested in robotics research caught Katz’s eye. His background in bioengineering had sparked an interest in doing something medically that was hands on, working with new technology and focusing on minimally invasive procedures.
A next-generation urologist was born.
Today, Katz brings a unique perspective to starting a urology practice. He’s less than a year out of an endourology fellowship, has an MBA and has co-authored research on telemedicine. He also has interesting insights on the emergence of single-use endoscopes and the role they can play in urology practice going forward.
Katz is affiliated with NYU Langone Health and is a clinical assistant professor in the urology department at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Show notes:
- Bio: Matthew Katz
- Diseases of the Colon & Rectum: “Assessment of Ileostomy Output Using Telemedicine: A Feasibility Trial”
- Single-Use Endoscopy: “5 Things Urologists Were Talking About at AUA 22”
- Single-Use Endoscopy: “How Robotics is Shaping the Future of Urology”
- Endoscopy Insights Show Page
Matthew Katz was at Weill Cornell Medicine when a chance digital encounter ended up steering him into urology.
“If you had asked me what a urologist did before medical school I probably wouldn’t have been able to answer the question,” he told me self-deprecatingly when we chatted at the American Urological Association’s annual conference in New Orleans.
But a blast email to the entire medical school looking for people interested in robotics research caught Katz’s eye. His background in bioengineering had sparked an interest in doing something medically that was hands on, working with new technology and focusing on minimally invasive procedures.
A next-generation urologist was born.
Today, Katz brings a unique perspective to starting a urology practice. He’s less than a year out of an endourology fellowship, has an MBA and has co-authored research on telemedicine. He also has interesting insights on the emergence of single-use endoscopes and the role they can play in urology practice going forward.
Katz is affiliated with NYU Langone Health and is a clinical assistant professor in the urology department at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Show notes:
- Bio: Matthew Katz
- Diseases of the Colon & Rectum: “Assessment of Ileostomy Output Using Telemedicine: A Feasibility Trial”
- Single-Use Endoscopy: “5 Things Urologists Were Talking About at AUA 22”
- Single-Use Endoscopy: “How Robotics is Shaping the Future of Urology”
- Endoscopy Insights Show Page
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Mentoring and Empowering Women in Endoscopy, Part 2
Empowering women in endoscopy is something Dr. Arthi Sanjeevi is clearly passionate about. It shows in her work mentoring young gastroenterologists and in the way she tackles gender-related challenges in the field.
In this conversation, Dr. Sanjeevi discusses what’s missing when it comes to empowering women in gastroenterology, and what still needs to be done to bring more female physicians into the practice, especially advanced therapeutic endoscopy.
Sanjeevi is based in Tampa, Florida, with AdventHealth Medical Group and is double board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine. She specializes in conditions of the pancreas and gallbladder, digestive cancers, esophageal motility and swallowing disorders, and advanced endoscopy, including therapeutic endoscopic retrograde pancreatography and deep enteroscopy.
Be sure to check out the first part of our conversation with Dr. Sanjeevi where we discuss the importance of mentoring and her work with the nonprofit Women in Endoscopy, which was launched in 2016 to provide classes and seminars about professional growth and leadership and foster networking among its members.
Show notes:
- Bio: Dr. Arthi Sanjeevi
- Women in Endoscopy
- Study: Barriers and bias standing in the way of female trainees wanting to learn advanced endoscopy
- Single-Use Endoscopy: Breaking Down Barriers in Gastroenterology
- Q&A: Women in Endoscopy During COVID-19 Lockdowns and Beyond
- Endoscopy Insights homepage and podcast archive
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How Effective is Flexible Ureteroscope Reprocessing?
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a letter to healthcare providers in April 2021 announcing its investigation into numerous medical device reports involving reprocessed urological endoscopes, Dr. Seth Bechis and his colleagues set out to learn more about reprocessing and its effectiveness.
They focused on flexible ureteroscopes in their research and found that, while studies assessing the effectiveness of on these specific scopes is limited, their findings line up with recent news about other flexible endoscopes — that a surprising number still harbor protein and other debris even after reprocessing, raising patient safety concerns.
Their findings were published in the journal Urology. We caught up with Dr. Bechis at the American Urological Association’s annual convention in New Orleans to talk more about the study.
Dr. Bechis is a board-certified urologist and member of the comprehensive Kidney Stone Center at UC San Diego Health. Hes’ also an Ambu consultant.
Show notes:
- Bio: Seth Bechis
- Urology: “Reprocessing Effectiveness for Flexible Ureteroscopes: A Critical Look at the Evidence”
- Single-Use Endoscopy: “FDA Investigating Reports of Infections Associated with Reprocessed Urological Endoscopes”
- The FDA’s Letter to Healthcare Providers: Infections Associated with Reprocessed Urological Endoscopes
- Single-Use Endoscopy: “Why Problems with Reprocessing Ureteroscopes ‘Haven’t Gone Away’”
- Endoscopy Insights: Breaking Down the FDA Letter to Healthcare Providers
- Endoscopy Insights Show Page
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