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managing Editor
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Christine Frey
Aisha Langford
Taylor Titus
Celia Vimont
Design
Jennifer Kennedy
Ashleigh Kilgour
Contributors
Timothy D. Averch, MD; Jairam R. Eswara, MD; T. Ernesto Figueroa, MD; Kathleen C. Kobashi, MD, FACS; Jonathan Ross, MD; Brian R. Stork, MD; Stacy T. Tanaka, MD
Urology Care Foundation Board of Directors
Harris M. Nagler, MD, FACS (President);
David Green, MD, FACS (Treasurer); Gopal Badlani, MD (Secretary); Sanford Siegel, MD; Raju Thomas, MD; Jay G. Baitler, Ryan D. Drant, Larry Lipshultz, MD; Amarpreet Sawhney, PhD; Lynn Stothers, MD, MHSc
Public Education Council
T. Ernesto Figueroa, MD (Chair);
Ahmad H. Bani Hani, MD; Arthur Louis Burnett II, MD; Mark Gibbons; Kelly Healy, MD; Michael Joseph Kennelly, MD; Ajay Kumar Nangia, MBBS, FACS; Paul F. Schellhammer, MD; Angela M. Smith, MD, MS; Brian Robert Stork, MD
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