CU SURGERY ON THE FOREFRONT WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN IN UROLOGY

If surgery is seen as a maledominated medical specialty, the stereotype goes double for the field of urology, with its focus on male concerns including erectile dysfunction, prostate issues, and vasectomies. A 2020 study from the American Urological Association, for example, found that women accounted for just 10.3% of all practicing urologists in the U.S.

Things are changing, though, as women pursuing careers in urology join the ranks of urology fellows at medical schools across the country. That includes the Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where three of the four current urology fellows — pediatric urology fellows Kristen Meier, MD, and Kelly Harris, MD, and reconstructive urology fellow Margaret Higgins, MD — are female.