San Antonio's Top Doctors of 2020-San Antonio Magazine

2021-11-10 03:50:56 By : Mr. Robin Huang

Kathleen Petty's profile; Josh Huskin's portrait, provided by UT Health, PRMA Plastic Surgery

Expertise: addiction/drug abuse, opioid addiction, psychopharmacology

San Antonio Asthma and Allergy Clinic

Expertise: Insect allergy, asthma, rhinitis

Allergy and Asthma Medical Professionals in South Texas

San Antonio certified allergy and asthma

Expertise: Asthma, Allergy, Immunotherapy, Sinusitis

Southwest Allergy and Asthma Center

Cardiac Electrophysiology Consultant in South Texas

Expertise: pacemaker/defibrillator, radiofrequency ablation

Expertise: Women's Health, Non-invasive Cardiology

San Antonio Cardiology Clinic

San Antonio Heart Clinic

Expertise: echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, pacemaker/defibrillator, cardiac catheterization

San Antonio Cardiology Clinic

Expertise: interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology, carotid artery disease, echocardiography

Expertise: Transplant Medicine-Heart, Heart Failure

San Antonio Cardiology Clinic

Expertise: heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac catheterization, intravascular ultrasound

San Antonio Cardiology Clinic

Expertise: Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, Angiography-Coronary Artery, Invasive Cardiology

San Antonio Cardiology Clinic

San Antonio Heart and Vascular Clinic

Expertise: interventional cardiology, carotid angioplasty and stents, pacemakers/defibrillators

Expertise: ADHD/ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders, developmental disorders

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

San Antonio Children's Hospital

San Antonio Children's Hospital

Expertise: congenital abnormalities, genetic diseases, developmental disorders

Colon and Rectal Surgery Association

Expertise: Colonoscopy, colon cancer screening

Expertise: minimally invasive surgery, colon and rectal cancer and surgery, hemorrhoids

Expertise: Laparoscopic Surgery, Robotic Surgery

Expertise: hemorrhoids, laparoscopic surgery, rectal cancer

Bucay Dermatology and Aesthetics Center

Expertise: cosmetic dermatology, medical dermatology, dermatology injections and fillers, Kybella chin fat

General, cosmetic and surgical dermatology

Expertise: Cosmetic Dermatology, Skin Surgery, Facial Rejuvenation, Skin Cancer

San Antonio Skin Center

Expertise: Mohs Surgery, Cosmetic Dermatology

South Texas Skin Cancer Center

Expertise: Mohs surgery, skin cancer

Expertise: Pediatric dermatology, skin cancer, psoriasis, hyperhidrosis

San Antonio Dermatology Association

Expertise: Botox therapy, chemical peeling

Expertise: skin cancer, cosmetic dermatology

San Antonio Skin and Cancer Clinic

San Antonio Pediatric Developmental Services

Expertise: Asperger's syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, developmental and behavioral disorders

Expertise: Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Radiology

South Texas Radiography Center

Expertise: breast imaging, breast cancer

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 4A

Expertise: Osteoporosis, Metabolic Bone Disease

Manuel M. Quiñones Jr.

Compassion is usually the motivation that drives students to pursue medicine, but Dr. Richard Usatine, professor of UT Health San Antonio, said that under the pressure of long periods of time, testing, and clinical rotation, the initial motivation sometimes disappears. This is where the school community clinic comes in.

Usatine and other professors work with medical students in free clinics to provide services for homeless people, refugees, LGBTQ people, and women who are rehabilitated, hoping to not only hone the students' diagnostic and treatment skills, but also hone their humanity. "We want them to firmly grasp their compassion and use it throughout their medical careers," Usatine said.

This is Usatine's enthusiasm that has honed his enthusiasm while working with the California National Health Service after completing his residence. Later, he completed a medical education scholarship and became the medical director of a homeless clinic run by UCLA students. He moved to San Antonio in 2003, and in 2005 helped open the first free clinic at the San Antonio University Health Center, where he continued to serve and train students. "I work in medicine because I can make a difference and work for social justice," said Usatine, who also authored 10 books and was the founding director of the University Health System Skin Clinic and an underserved family medicine dermatology scholarship program Director program.

Since all the attention in recent years has been on the opioid crisis, Usatine said it’s easy to forget that those who struggle with drug addiction-like the women they treat at Alpha Home every Monday night-also wish for themselves. Women whose children or young people lead a better life are looking for new beginnings. "The women are very grateful," he said. "They are often at the bottom of their lives and often neglect medical care, so they come to us for help."

To thank him for his work, Alpha Home named its clinic Usatine Health Center in 2016. "I feel very honored," he said. "I like working there and working with students. It's just very rewarding."

Expertise: Family Medicine/Dermatology and Dermatology

Gastric Consultant in San Antonio

Expertise: Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), endoscopy

Expertise: Gallbladder disease, liver disease, pancreatic disease, endoscopy and colonoscopy

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 4A

Expertise: endoscopy, liver disease, pancreatic and biliary diseases

Gastric Consultant in San Antonio

Expertise: Colonoscopy, Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Expertise: Hepatitis C, Endoscopic Ultrasound

Gastric Consultant in San Antonio

Expertise: Inflammatory Bowel Disease/Crohn's Disease, Liver Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Endoscopy

San Antonio Digestive and Liver Disease Center

Expertise: Liver Disease, Hepatitis B and C, Transplant Medicine-Liver

Expertise: endoscopy, Barrett's esophagus

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 4A

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

Texas Gastroenterology Association

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 5A

Expertise: Gynecological Cancer, Laparoscopic Surgery, Uterine Cancer, Ovarian Cancer

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 5A

Expertise: Gynecological Cancer, Minimally Invasive Surgery

San Antonio Hand Center

Expertise: Hand and upper limb surgery, hand reconstruction, burn care

San Antonio Orthopedic Group

Expertise: Hand and wrist surgery, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, Dupuytren contracture

Northeast Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

START Cancer Care Center

Expertise: Leukemia and lymphoma, multiple myeloma, bleeding/coagulation disorders, platelet disease

Expertise: bone marrow transplantation

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 3A

Expertise: Co-infection of HIV, HIV and Hepatitis

San Antonio Infectious Disease Consultant

San Antonio Infectious Disease Consultant

San Antonio Infectious Disease Consultant

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 3A

San Antonio Infectious Disease Consultant

San Antonio Preventive and Diagnostic Medicine

Texas Medical and Sleep Specialist

Expertise: Coronary artery disease, angioplasty and stent placement, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease

Texas Heart and Vascular Institute

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 5A

Expertise: prevention of premature birth, high risk of pregnancy

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 5A

Expertise: High-risk pregnancy, preterm/low birth weight infants, gestational diabetes

START Cancer Care Center

Expertise: solid tumor, breast cancer, melanoma

Expertise: breast cancer, colon cancer

Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center

START Cancer Care Center

START Cancer Care Center

Expertise: drug development, gastrointestinal cancer and rare tumors, lung cancer

START Cancer Care Center

Expertise: clinical trials, gastrointestinal cancer

Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center

START Cancer Care Center

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

Texas Pediatric Medical Group

Expertise: premature/low birth weight babies

Texas Pediatric Medical Group

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

Expertise: neonatal chronic lung disease, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal pulmonary hypertension, neonatal lung disease

Texas Pediatric Medical Group

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

South Texas Kidney Care Group

Specialty: Dialysis care, high blood pressure, fluid/electrolyte balance, kidney disease-children and adults

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

Expertise: Transplant Medicine-Kidney and Adrenal Diseases

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

South Texas Kidney Care Group

Expertise: Pediatric neurosurgery, brain and spinal cord tumors, craniosynostosis, Chiari malformation

Expertise: Skull base tumor and surgery

Expertise: Spine Surgery, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Expertise: Vascular Neurology, Stroke, Neurosurgery

Expertise: Lupus/SLE, Neuroimmunology

Expertise: Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology

Expertise: Neuromuscular Diseases, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Expertise: Repair of pelvic organ prolapse, robotic surgery

Expertise: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Robotic Surgery

Expertise: Cataract Surgery, LASIK Refractive Surgery, Corneal and External Eye Diseases, Diabetic Eye Disease/Retinopathy

Retina Consultant in San Antonio

Expertise: Retina/Vitreous Surgery

Expertise: Diabetic Eye Disease/Retinopathy, Macular Degeneration, Retinopathy

Expertise: Glaucoma, Cataract Surgery

Expertise: Eye plastic surgery and orbital surgery, cosmetic surgery

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 6A

Expertise: Eye plastic surgery and orbital surgery

Specialty: Eye plastic surgery and orbital surgery, cosmetic surgery-face and eyes

Expertise: Cataract Surgery, LASIK Refractive Surgery

If Dr. Maria Stephanie R. Jardeleza can emphasize one thing to diabetic patients, it is that they need an ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at the San Antonio Eye Center specializes in diseases and surgeries of the retina and vitreous. She said that the first time she saw a diabetic customer was after their vision loss. "If you are diagnosed with diabetes, please make an appointment for an eye clinic," she said. "40% to 50% (of patients) came to me very late and it was difficult to catch up."

Jardeleza was born in Manila and is a third-generation ophthalmologist. She said that she discovered her passion for this profession very early when her father asked her to follow her to the clinic for surgery. She received her medical degree from the University of the Philippines, then completed her residency training at Boston University, and received scholarships at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital.

It was in San Antonio where Jardeleza initially moved to work at UT Health in San Antonio, and she began to see a large number of diabetic patients with vision loss, which could lead to blindness. "If your sugar is not controlled and your diet is not improved, no treatment will prevent this from happening," Jardeleza said, adding that patients need to undergo dilated examinations every year. "If someone changes their lifestyle, I can restore their vision or help them maintain their vision."

Being able to work with patients to improve their lives makes Jardeleza passionate about her work. One of her favorite patients so far is a woman who came to see her after losing sight in one eye and losing sight in the other eye due to diabetes. The patient understands that her lifestyle needs to be changed to make any ophthalmological treatment valuable, and agrees to reset her habits. In the end, she became independent after having to rely on her daughter as a caregiver-she achieved Jardeleza's goal. "Her eyes have restored 20/20 vision," Jardeleza said.

Expertise: Retinal/Vitreous Surgery, Macular Disease/Degeneration, Retinopathy, Diabetic Eye Disease/Retinopathy

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 6A

Expertise: corneal disease, uveitis

Retina Consultant in San Antonio

Expertise: Retina/Vitreous Surgery

Expertise: Cataract surgery, corneal disease, LASIK refractive surgery

Expertise: Glaucoma, Dry Eye, Macular Degeneration, Cataract Surgery

Retina Consultant in San Antonio

Expertise: Retinal/Vitreous Surgery, Retinal Diseases

Expertise: Congenital Eye Diseases, Cataract Surgery

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 6A

Expertise: Diabetic Eye Disease/Retinopathy, Cataract Surgery

South Texas Eye Clinic

999 E. Basse Road, St. 128-B

Expertise: LASIK refractive surgery, cataract surgery, glaucoma

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

Expertise: Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-ophthalmology

Expertise: Cataract Surgery, Glaucoma, Diabetic Eye Disease/Retinopathy

Expertise: trauma, reconstructive surgery

Expertise: Shoulder Surgery, Sports Medicine

San Antonio Pediatric Orthopaedic Association

Expertise: Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery

Northeast Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Expertise: hip and knee joint replacement surgery, arthroscopic surgery

Expertise: Arthroscopic surgery-knee joint, knee replacement, joint replacement, spine surgery-lower back

Dr. Adam Harris likes to tell his patients that he cares about them like family — the father of two likes his family. Harris founded the San Antonio Orthopedic Specialist in 2002 so that he can focus on each patient; he sees about 25 people on non-surgical days instead of 40 or more patients who can be scheduled for a day elsewhere. "When my patients and I are in the room, they will concentrate," said Harris, who grew up in California and attended medical school. "This is a custom method."

Harris remembers that when he was a child, he first became interested in the study of gait or the way people walked. At that time, he was reading his father's book, a plastic surgeon who specialized in shoulders. Nevertheless, when he entered medical school, he thought he might study cardiology. However, during the clinical rotation, he realized his passion for orthopedics, after which he focused his training and more than 20 years of professional career on knees and hips. He completed his residency training at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke Medical Center in Chicago, and stayed in Chicago to receive two scholarships, one for adult joint reconstruction and the other for research focusing on the biochemistry of articular cartilage.

In San Antonio, Harris is known for using minimally invasive, tissue-preserving methods for hip and knee surgery, and he recently obtained a patent for the instruments he used in these procedures. "The more force you exert during the operation, the more painful they will be in the recovery process," he said. "If you can complete the operation with subtle movements, then the pain will be less." He said that patients who undergo hip and knee replacements through minimally invasive methods usually get up and walk on the same day, adding that only during non-surgical treatments. Surgery should only be performed when the treatment is unsuccessful. The ages of the patients he treated ranged from 18 to 95 years old, but most of his patients were in their 50s, 60s and 70s. "This week I strive to be a better doctor than last week and the previous week," he said.

Expertise: reconstructive surgery, joint replacement

San Antonio Orthopedic Group

Expertise: arthroscopic surgery, joint replacement

Expertise: Spinal Diseases, Spinal Deformities, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Spine Surgery-Cervical Spondylosis

Expertise: pelvic and acetabular fractures, trauma

Innovative Chiropractic Clinic

Expertise: Spine Surgery-Pediatric, Spinal Deformity-Pediatric, Spinal Disease-Degenerative, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery

San Antonio Children's Hospital

Expertise: Children's clubfoot/foot deformity, scoliosis, spine disease, hip joint disease and dysplasia

Expertise: joint replacement, arthroscopic surgery-hip joint, sports medicine

Expertise: Musculoskeletal Cancer, Sarcoma

Expertise: sports medicine, knee surgery, knee injury/ACL/meniscal tear, cartilage injury

Expertise: Shoulder Surgery, Rotator Cuff Surgery

San Antonio Orthopedic Group

Expertise: hip and knee surgery, shoulder surgery

South Texas Pediatric Orthopedics and Scoliosis Center

Expertise: Head and Neck Reconstruction, Neuro-Otology

Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 6-B

Expertise: Head and Neck Surgery, Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, Sinus Diseases, Zenker Diverticulum

San Antonio Ear Nose and Throat Clinic

Expertise: Head and Neck Cancer and Surgery, Thyroid Cancer and Surgery

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 6B

Expertise: Head and Neck Cancer, Thyroid Cancer and Parathyroid Cancer and Surgery, Sinus Disease/Surgery

San Antonio Ear Nose and Throat Clinic

Expertise: Sleep disorders/apnea/snoring

Advanced Aesthetics Lopez Plastic Surgery

Expertise: Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Expertise: Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

San Antonio Spine and Pain Center

Spine and joint pain specialist

Expertise: pain management, spinal cord stimulation, spinal pain, chronic pain

Expertise: Hematology, Leukemia and Lymphoma

Children's Heart Network/UT Health San Antonio

Children's Heart Network/UT Health San Antonio

Expertise: Congenital Heart Disease

University Health System/UT Health

Expertise: Transplant Medicine-Liver, Liver Disease, Short Bowel Syndrome

When Dr. Gail Tomlinson decided to specialize in pediatric oncology and hematology, she thought it was a way to ensure she was always learning while still having a direct impact on patients.

"Cancer treatment is an area of ​​constant change and continuous improvement," said Tomlinson, UT Health San Antonio Professor of Pediatrics and Greehey Professor of Genetics and Cancer. "I think this is an opportunity to learn."

Tomlinson received his medical degree and doctorate from the George Washington University School of Medicine. Before completing an internship and residency at the National Children's Medical Center in Washington, DC, he received a degree in biochemistry from Duke University at Dallas Medical Center. Before being recruited to San Antonio in 2007, Tomlinson taught at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Through all her research and practice, Tomlinson said that she is particularly interested in the genetic susceptibility of cancer, dedicated to understanding which genetic factors put children at risk, and to make pediatricians and families aware of when to monitor something .

She said that usually, before the tumor is found, the child looks very healthy.

"We still have a long way to go to optimize early detection, but in recent years, we have learned more about different genes and their interactions."

UT Health San Antonio, South Texas Pediatric Blood and Cancer Center

Special expertise: cancer survivors-late effects of treatment, cancer genetics, liver cancer, kidney cancer

San Antonio Children's Hospital

Expertise: Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis

Texas Medical and Sleep Specialist

Expertise: Asthma, Sleep Disorder

Texas Medical and Sleep Specialist

Expertise: Asthma and chronic lung disease, sleep disorders/apnea

University Health System/UT Health

University Health System/UT Health

Expertise: transplantation, pediatric transplantation

San Antonio Pediatric Surgery Association

Expertise: Pediatric Thoracic Surgery, Congenital Malformations, Neonatal Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery

San Antonio Pediatric Surgery Association

Expertise: cancer surgery, neonatal surgery

San Antonio Pediatric Surgery Association

Expertise: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Congenital Abnormalities-Gastrointestinal and Thoracic Surgery

San Antonio Pediatric Surgery Association

Expertise: Neonatal Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery

San Antonio Pediatric Surgery Association

San Antonio Pediatric Urology

Expertise: Minimally Invasive Urology, Reconstructive Surgery

San Antonio Children's Hospital

University Health System/UT Health

Expertise: immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases, rheumatism

University Health System/UT Health

San Antonio Children's Hospital

Expertise: Pediatric Rehabilitation, Neurological Rehabilitation

University Health System/UT Health

Expertise: Cosmetic Surgery-Breast, Breast Augmentation, Plastic Surgery, Abdominal Plastic Surgery

Specialty: Burn reconstruction plastic surgery, facial cosmetic surgery, liposuction and body contouring, breast cosmetic and reconstructive surgery

At the age of 16, Dr. Mina Chrysopoulo announced to his parents that he would become a plastic surgeon. "Entering the medical field is something I have to do to become a plastic surgeon," said Chrysopoulo, who is called a "Doctor." C, "President of PRMA Plastic Surgery." This is not a situation where I want to be a doctor and then figure out what I should be. "

Growing up, Chrysopoulo said that his father was a history buff, and he spent a few hours reading articles about World War I and World War II. While reading with his father, Chrysopoulo learned that the first plastic surgeries were performed on people injured during the First World War. He was fascinated by it.

Chrysopoulo grew up in London and studied at University College London School of Medicine. A plastic surgery professor told him that the United States would provide more opportunities for his field of choice, so Chrysopoulo moved and completed training and scholarships in Texas and Wisconsin.

Nevertheless, although he knew he wanted to be a plastic surgeon, Chrysopoulo said that before one of his relatives had breast cancer and realized the need for reconstructive surgery options, he was not sure which type of surgery he would specialize in. Operation.

Now at PRMA Plastic Surgery, Chrysopoulo focuses on breast reconstruction, offering women an alternative to implants, and treating patients traveling to San Antonio from all over the country (and sometimes internationally).

Chrysopoulo said that in the past few years, many women who have experienced breast cancer did not even know that reconstruction is an option. Others think that implants are the only surgery they can perform.

Alternatively, the deep lower abdominal perforator (DIEP) flap surgery uses tissue from a woman's stomach and includes nerve reconstruction so that the woman can feel, which was not possible in the past during reconstruction surgery, he said. "We have done more DIEP flap operations than anyone in the world," he said.

Chrysopoulo said that he operated on women who had breast cancer and had undergone bilateral mastectomy and women who had chosen to have their breasts removed because they found that they had the BRCA gene, indicating that there is a genetic risk of breast cancer. He is a member of the PRMA team of seven surgeons, and he said they also perform operations on men who have survived breast cancer.

Expertise: Breast cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, microsurgery, reconstructive plastic surgery

Hand and Thumb Specialist Center

Expertise: Breast cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, blepharoplasty, liposuction

San Antonio Plastic Surgery Institute

Surgery, breast augmentation, breast reduction, liposuction and body shaping

Expertise: Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Trauma

540 N. Madison Oak Avenue, St. 400

Expertise: cosmetic surgery-breast, breast reconstruction and breast augmentation, liposuction and body sculpting, cosmetic surgery-face

Advanced concept of plastic surgery

Expertise: Breast plastic surgery and reconstruction surgery, liposuction and body contouring, cosmetic surgery-face and body, abdominal plastic surgery

Expertise: Rhinoplasty, Breast Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Liposuction and Body Contouring, Blepharoplasty

Expertise: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Expertise: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Texas Intensive Care Unit Lung and Sleep

START Cancer Care Center

1010 NW Loop 410, St. 100D

Expertise: hematological malignancies, lymphoma

Expertise: Infertility-IVF, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Obesity

San Antonio Fertility Center

Expertise: infertility, uterine fibroids, laparoscopic surgery

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 5A

Institute of Allergy, Asthma, Immunology and Rheumatology

Expertise: Autoimmune diseases, allergies and asthma, rheumatoid arthritis

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 3A

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 3A

Expertise: Arthritis, Lupus/SLE

Expertise: Sports Injuries, Arthroscopic Surgery-Hip Joint, Arthroscopic Surgery-Knee

San Antonio Orthopedic Group

Expertise: arthroscopic surgery, shoulder surgery, knee surgery

Expertise: Primary Care Sports Medicine

START Cancer Care Center

Expertise: Pancreatic Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Cancer Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

Expertise: weight loss/obesity surgery

University Health System/UT Health

Expertise: liver and kidney transplantation, liver surgery, pancreatic surgery

12709 Toepperwein Road, Ste. 302, Live Oak

South Texas Surgical Oncology Association

Expertise: weight loss/obesity surgery

South Texas Surgical Oncology Association

Expertise: Bariatric/Bariatric Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery

Expertise: Vascular Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery

8300 Floyd Curl Drive, St. 4A

Expertise: hernia, bariatric/obesity surgery, laparoscopic surgery, endoscopy

Expertise: Breast Cancer and Surgery

Expertise: Transplantation-Heart and Lung, Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiac Surgery-Adult and Pediatric, Cardiothoracic Surgery

South Texas Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Association

South Texas Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Association

Expertise: Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplantation

Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center

Expertise: breast cancer, esophageal surgery, lung transplantation, esophageal cancer

Dr. Sylvia Botros-Brey grew up in the medical profession in Eastern Texas. Her father is a urologist and her uncle is a gynecologist. Although she had a vague concept of the meaning of these professions, it was not until she worked with patients during her medical training that she realized that she wanted to pursue the integration of these two fields.

"Fundamentally speaking, what really attracted me to urology and gynecology was the fragility and needs of the patients we saw," she said. "This is an underserved area."

Botros-Brey is now the Director of Women's Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at UT Health San Antonio. His goal is to help patients feel at ease when seeking treatment to solve any problems they may encounter-even if they are difficult to mention. "As providers, our response may largely determine the future," Botros-Brey said, explaining that she sees women dealing with issues such as pelvic floor disease, urinary incontinence, or frequent urinary tract infections (UTI) . "You always hear,'This is normal, or this is just what happens when you have children or you grow old.' I usually just say,'You know, it's not normal, if you want, we can help you.'"

Botros-Brey said that people think her job is only suitable for older women, but she also treats young women with recurrent urinary tract infections or frequent urination, new mothers with leaking urine or pelvic floor problems. Botros-Brey said that one-third of women will suffer from pelvic floor disease in their lifetime.

When a woman asked a question that was hard to talk about, Botros-Brey wanted to make sure it was resolved and stated that the options they offered ranged from modest behavior changes all the way to reconstructive surgery. "There are always things we can do to help," she said.

Expertise: Urology, pelvic organ prolapse repair, urinary incontinence

Stone Oak Women's Center

Expertise: Urology and Gynecology, Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse,

Expertise: laparoscopic surgery, adrenal surgery, urinary system cancer, kidney stones

Expertise: urinary system cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer

Expertise: erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, neurourology

Expertise: Benign Prostatic Disease (BPH)

Expertise: prostate cancer/robot surgery, vasectomy, incontinence, clinical trials

Expertise: prostate cancer, urinary system cancer

Expertise: robotic surgery, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer

Expertise: Bladder cancer, clinical trials

Expertise: prostate cancer, benign prostate diseases

Expertise: Minimally Invasive Urology, Kidney Stones, Kidney Cancer, Prostate Cancer

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

University Health System/UT Health San Antonio

Expertise: Angioplasty and Stenting, Interventional Oncology

7703 Floyd Curl Drive210-567-5715

Expertise: Aneurysm-abdominal aorta and thoracic aorta, lower extremity arterial disease, cerebrovascular disease, renal vascular disease

Expertise: Peripheral Vascular Disease

Expertise: Peripheral Vascular Disease

Expertise: endovascular surgery, aneurysm, carotid endarterectomy

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