Andrology Fellowship Program
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Andrology Fellowship provides a state-of-the-art experience in male reproductive medicine. The fellowship offers all of the most modern andrological procedures to patients including testicular sperm extraction, male reproductive microsurgery, gamete micromanipulation, genetic evaluation, electroejaculation, erectile dysfunction evaluation and therapy, and many others.
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The 13-month fellowship is designed to provide a foundation in male reproductive microsurgery, innovation and medicine for future faculty in academic programs. The fellow participates in all male reproductive surgical and microsurgical cases with Drs. Craig Niederberger, Samuel Ohlander and Mahmoud Mima, and engages in the majority of clinics providing andrology-specific patient care. The fellowship includes approximately 40% of time available to participate in research and an innovation curriculum in the University’s unique inter-college Innovation Center. At the Innovation Center, faculty from the Colleges of Medicine; Engineering; Architecture, Art, and Design; Business; and personnel from the University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Technology Management collaborate on projects including medical device design from inception to commercialization.
Length of Fellowship
The 13-month duration of the fellowship allows for a 1 month overlap between the incoming and graduating fellow so that the new fellow can see the full arc of the innovation curriculum from start to finish.
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Requirements
The fellowship is offered to graduates of approved urological residency programs.
Materials and process
- Register for the AUA Andrology Fellowship Match.
- Submit your CV, head shot, personal statement, 3 letters of recommendation, and the standard UIC graduate medical education form.
- Via email to uroed@uic.edu
- By mail to: UIC Department of Urology
820 S. Wood Street
Clinical Sciences North, Suite 515
Chicago, IL, 60612
Applications for the 2026 Andrology Fellowship Match are currently being accepted, and formal interviews will be held starting January 1, 2025. Informal communications for information about the program are welcomed at any time.
International applicants
We welcome foreign applicants with ECFMG certification. Applicants must have taken USMLE Step1 & Step2.
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Details
The fellow learns and practices all aspects of male reproductive medicine and surgery and erectile dysfunction with an emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of male infertility. Conditions and treatments include:
- Azoospermia due to spermatogenic dysfunction and microdissection testicular sperm extraction
- Obstructive azoospermia and microsurgical reconstruction
- Varicocele and microsurgical varicocelectomy
- Ejaculatory duct obstruction and transurethral resection
- Ejaculatory dysfunction and electroejaculation
- Hypoandrogenism and pharmacological treatment
- Erectile dysfunction and prosthetic and medical treatment.
The fellow may also spend time learning procedures in Dr. Prins’ Andrology laboratory in preparation for establishing testing and sperm processing in their future practice. The fellow will be involved in leading our journal club, monthly andrology meeting, participating in both clinical and basic research projects as well as educating and teaching residents and medical students.
Facilities
Clinical and surgical training is performed in the new Specialty Care Building, a $250M State-of-the-Art facility with urology clinics and offices on the second floor and the outpatient surgicenter on the third. The Andrology laboratory is housed within the urology space in the Specialty Care Building.
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Concurrently with the medical curriculum, the fellow engages in a structured innovation curriculum in the UR*Lab, an innovation laboratory housed within the University of Illinois at Chicago Innovation Center, a collaboration, education and incubation center that brings diverse faculty and learners from the Colleges of Medicine, Engineering, Architecture/Design/Arts, and Business together with university wide resources such as the Office of Technology Management to educate the modern interdisciplinary approach to innovation.
The fellow learns while doing:
- Problem identification
- Solutioneering with high level specification
- Product and market research and intellectual property research
- Prototyping and testing with 3D printing
- Embedded microcontrollers, and materials
- Filing an invention disclosure in preparation for securing intellectual property.
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Craig Niederberger
Our Recent Alumni Heading link
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Our Recent Alumni
- 2023 Ashraf Selim, MD – University College London, London, UK
- 2022 Kareim Khalafalla, MD – Anderson Cancer center, Houston,TX
- 2021 Danielle Velez Leitner, MD – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Jersey, NJ
- 2020 Jose Flores Martinez, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York, NY
- 2019 Asim Khan, MD – Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan