Alumni News
Michael J. Erhard, MD, MBA
Mihir Shah, MD
2021 JEFFERSON UROLOGY ASSOCIATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Michael J. Erhard, MD, MBA Executive Vice President and Physician in Chief, Florida Operations Nemours: Children’s Health System The Department of Urology was pleased to present the 2021 Jefferson Urology Alumni Achievement Award to Michael J. Erhard, MD, MBA. Dr. Erhard was appointed Physician in Chief for Nemours in Florida in 2017. His medical leadership role includes responsibilities for Nemours physician practices throughout northeast, northwest and central Florida, as well as Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando and hospitalists and neonatologists serving affiliated hospitals from Central Florida to Florida’s panhandle. Dr. Erhard's 25 years of service and physician leadership with Nemours spans the campuses both in the Delaware Valley and Florida. A native of the Philadelphia area, Dr. Erhard received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, (Sidney Kimmel Medical College), where he began his journey with Nemours as part of his urology training. After completing his Surgery and Residency in Urology (1995) at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, he completed a Pediatric Urology Fellowship at the University of Florida, a joint program with Nemours in Jacksonville. Dr. Erhard is board certified by the American Board of Urology (ABU) and holds a subspecialty certificate from the ABU in pediatric urology. Dr. Erhard specializes in spina bifida, urologic reconstruction and minimally invasive surgery. He was one of the
first in the country to adopt the use of robotics in pediatric urology, and was a pioneer in both robotics, and ureteroscopic treatment of stones in children. Dr. Erhard was also the founding lead surgeon for the Foundation for Children, a non-profit Florida based organization which focused on correcting congenital anomalies in orphaned children of the Crimean Peninsula, and also helped train local physicians. He led the surgical teams missions beginning in 2007 and ending in 2014 with the annexation by the Russian Federation. Dr. Sonny Figueroa, Chief of Pediatric Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology Nemours/A. I. duPont Hospital for Children, noted that “having been involved with his training and continuing to work with him in the Nemours Children’s Health System, we are very proud of Mike and what he has accomplished. His Jefferson Urology Alumni Achievement Award is well deserved.” Previous award winners are Dr. Steve Strup (2019), and Dr. Marty Dresner (2020). There has been one other historic Alumni award given to Dr. Ken Brownstein during the Department of Urology Centennial Celebration in 2004. The Department looks forward to making this Alumni award an annual event. ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS Mihir Shah, MD Mihir is a graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark in 2003 after completing his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Mihir joined Jefferson as a general surgery resident in June of 2013 and
Gerald L. Andriole, MD, FACS
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Year in Review
Dr. Erhard participated in a virtual alumni award ceremony on June 18, 2021 during the DM Davis Visiting Professorship with Dr. Pat Shenot is “presenting” Mike with his award. Dr. Gomella is holding a custom cardboard cut-out likeness that is reported to be “the next best thing to being there.”
