The Brady Urological Institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions offers a highly specialized and comprehensive fellowship training program in Endourology and Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery. This program is unique in that fellows are exposed to all aspects of minimally invasive urology in high volume – including multi-port and single-port robotics, laparoscopy, HoLEP, PCNL (prone, supine, fluoroscopy-guided, ultrasound-guided, endoscopic combined intra-renal surgery), Ureteroscopy, ESWL, cryoablation, and HIFU.

The fellowship is a two-year program with integrated clinical and research components. It is based at four campuses of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Primary sites are Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, both located in Baltimore, Maryland. Additionally, the program extends to Howard County Medical Center in Columbia, MD, and Sibley Hospital in Washington DC.

At Hopkins, fellows will have the ability to leverage collaborations within the department and across the school. The Brady Urological Institute has several funded PhD researchers in basic sciences as well as its own URobotics engineering lab led by Dr. Dan Stoianovici. With the addition of Dr. Ahmed Ghazi, fellows have access to the Surgical Learning and Innovation Center of Excellence (SLICE) to use patient-specific hydrogel phantoms for surgical training and research. Fellows can also pursue individual interests across the Whiting School of Engineering or the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The fellow is appointed as a faculty member with the title of Instructor in Urology; they have full hospital admitting and operative privileges, allowing the fellow to gain surgical autonomy and develop experience in resident education. The fellowship is structured to train individuals interested in pursuing a career in academia.

Other responsibilities of the fellow include managing their own patient clinic once per week and call coverage for approximately 4 weeks of the year. As a result, fellows are required to have a full state medical license. The fellows are not expected to attend faculty clinics nor manage EHR inboxes. The expectation of the fellow is to leverage the program to meet their future clinical and academic needs. Fellowship schedules can be adjusted depending on the interest of the fellow to focus in some areas more than others.

Core Faculty:

Mohamad E. Allaf, M.D. Endowed Professor of Urology, Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Department of Urology and the Brady Urological Institute, Urologist-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital

Brian R. Matlaga, M.D., M.P.H. The Stephens Professor of Urology Director, The Stephens Center for Stone Disease, Executive Vice Chair of the Brady Urological Institute, Executive Medical Director of Clinical Affairs for Johns Hopkins Medicine International

Ahmed Ghazi, M.D. Associate Professor of Urology, Director of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Director of Surgical Simulation Training

Arvin George, M.B.B.Ch Associate Professor of Urology

Naren Nimmagadda, M.D. Assistant Professor in Urology

Sibley faculty:

Thomas Jarrett,  M.D. Professor of Urology, Chief of Urology, National Capital Region

Patrick Muffarij, M.D. Associate Professor of Urology

Former Fellows