Joel T. Funk, MD, FACS
Dr. Funk 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 in Southern Arizona and remains one of a handful of surgeons nationwide, performing at least 100 of these procedures a year.
Dr. Funk has extensive experience in the surgical and non-surgical management of prostate 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. After completing his residency at the College of Medicine – Tucson, he realized Tucson was home and joined the clinical faculty in the Department of Surgery. He later completed additional training in laser prostatectomy at Addensbrooke Hospital in Cambridge in 2009.
Degree(s)
- MD: Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, 2001
- BS: Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
MRI imaging and evaluation of pelvic organ prolapse, long-term outcomes from HoLEP, prostate cancer risk, histologic evaluation of the pathogenesis of benign prostatic hypertrophy, MR fusion biopsy in the diagnosis and decision-making of prostate cancer