Joel T Funk, MD, FACS

Associate Professor, Urology
Chief of Staff at Banner University Medical Center - South Campus
Associate Director of Perioperative Services - BUMCT/S
Chief of Surgical Services at Banner University Medical Center - South Campus
Director of Urology at Banner University Medical Center - South Campus

Joel Funk, MD, FACS, 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. 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 realized Tucson was home and joined the clinical faculty in the Department of Surgery. He completed additional training in laser prostatectomy at Addensbrooke Hospital in Cambridge in 2009.

Dr. Funk is the chief of surgical services and the director of urology at Banner University Medical Center South.

Degree(s)

  • MD: Northwestern University Medical School, 2001
Honors and Awards
Bodinger Stegmann Award-WSAUA, Best Tips/Tricks, 2004
Resident Teaching Award - Department Surgery, 2002
Residency
University of Arizona, Urology, 2003-2007
University of Arizona, General Surgery, 2001-2003
Board Certifications
American Board of Urology, 2011
Specialties
Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
Benign Prostate Obstruction
Male Voiding Dysfunction
Neurourology and Voiding Dysfunction
Stone Disease