Joel T. Funk, MD

Associate Professor of Urology
University of Arizona-College of Medicine, Tucson

Joel Funk, MD, FACS, is an associate professor of Urology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert and key thought leader in laser prostatectomy and female urology. He was the first urologist to perform a holmium prostatectomy (HoLEP) in southern Arizona and remains one of a handful of surgeons nationwide, performing at least 200 or more of these procedures a year.

Dr. Funk has extensive experience in the surgical and non-surgical management of bening prostate disease and bladder outlet obstruction in men. Furthermore, he is an active female urology specialist with expertise in robotic sacrocolpopexy, vaginal mesh excision, and anti-incontience surgery. Dr. Funk received his undergraduate degree from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and matriculated to The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1997. Upon his graduation, he joined the University of Arizona in Tucson as a urology resident in 2001. Completing his residency in 2007, he joined the clinical faculty in the Department of Urology. He completed additional training in laser prostatectomy at Addensbrooke Hospital in Cambridge in 2009.

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Presentation(s):

• 106HO - Surgical Ablative Techniques for BPH

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• Hands-on Skills Stations

  Sunday, May 15, 2022
  9:50 AM – 12:00 PM