North Central Section of the AUA, Inc. North Central Section of the AUA, Inc.

NCS Committees
2022 - 2023

ByLaws Committee

  • James Andrew Brown, MD (Committee Chair)
  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Committee Member)
  • Gopal Nand Gupta, MD, FACS (Committee Member)
  • Jeffrey Charles Yeamans, MD (Committee Member)

Editorial and Awards Committee

  • Anne Pelletier Cameron, MD, FPMRS (Chair)
  • Geoffrey N. Box, MD (Committee Member)
  • Khurshid Ghani, MD, MBChB, MS, FRCS (Committee Member)
  • Kyle A. Richards, MD, FACS (Committee Member)
  • Lynn L. Woo, MD, FACS (Committee Member)

Education Committee

  • Ronney Abaza, MD, FACS (Committee Chair)
  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Secretary)
  • To Be Determined (Board of Directors Representative)
  • Sapan Nitin Ambani, MD (Committee Member)
  • Geoffrey N. Box, MD (Committee Member)
  • To Be Determined (Resident Representative)
  • Nicholas Tadros, MD, MCR, MBA (Young Urologist Committee Chair)

Finance Committee

  • Edward Ernest Cherullo, MD (Chair)
  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Committee Member)
  • Matthew T. Gettman, MD (Committee Member)
  • Bradley Fields Schwartz, DO (Committee Member)
  • Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD (Committee Member)

Health Policy Council

  • Candace F. Granberg, MD (Committee Chair)
  • James Andrew Brown, MD (Vice Chair)
  • Ranjiv Mathews, MD (Illinois)
  • Norm D. Smith, MD (Illinois)
  • Teresa Diane Beam, MD, FACS (Indiana)
  • Bradley G. Orris, MD (Indiana)
  • James Andrew Brown, MD (Iowa)
  • Bradley Allan Erickson, MD, MS, FACS (Iowa)
  • Earl R. Koenig, MD (Michigan)
  • Leonard Jay Zuckerman, MD (Michigan)
  • Robert W. Geist, MD (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota)
  • Kevin Koo, MD, MPH (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota)
  • Geoffrey N. Box, MD (Ohio)
  • Ryan C. Hedgepeth, MD, MS (Ohio)
  • Timothy Joseph Kennedy, MD (Wisconsin)
  • Daniel Harrison Williams, IV, MD (Wisconsin)

Local Arrangements Committee

  • R. Houston Thompson, MD (Local Arrangements Chair)

Long Range Planning Committee

  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Committee Chair)
  • Matthew T. Gettman, MD (President)
  • Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD (President-Elect)
  • Edward Ernest Cherullo, MD (Treasurer)
  • Bradley Fields Schwartz, DO (Immediate Past President)
  • James C. Ulchaker, MD, FACS (NCS Representative to AUA Board of Directors)
  • Nicholas Tadros, MD, MCR, MBA (Young Urologist Committee Chair)
  • Larissa Bresler, MD, DABMA (Women in Urology Committee Chair)

Membership Committee

  • Matthew T. Gettman, MD (President)
  • Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD (President-Elect)
  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Secretary)
  • Edward Ernest Cherullo, MD (Treasurer)
  • Bradley Fields Schwartz, DO (Immediate Past President)
  • David Ralph Paolone, MD (Historian)
  • Robert H. Blackwell, MD (Illinois)
  • Ronald Stuart Boris, MD (Indiana)
  • James Andrew Brown, MD (Iowa)
  • John T. Stoffel, MD (Michigan)
  • Gregory Scott Parries, MD, PhD (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota)
  • Mark Memo, DO, FACS (Ohio)
  • Carley Davis, MD (Wisconsin)
  • James C. Ulchaker, MD, FACS (NCS Representative to AUA Board of Directors)
  • Nicholas Tadros, MD, MCR, MBA (Young Urologist Committee Chair)
  • Nathan D. Grunewald, MD, MBA, FACS (Young Urologist Committee Vice Chair)
  • Candace F. Granberg, MD (Health Policy Council Chair)
  • Larissa Bresler, MD, DABMA (Women in Urology Committee Chair)

Nominating Committee

  • Bradley Fields Schwartz, DO (Committee Chair)
  • Jeffrey Alan Triest, MD (Vice Chair)
  • Carley Davis, MD (Board of Directors Representative)
  • Marcelino E. Rivera, MD (Indiana)
  • Chad Robert Tracy, MD (Iowa)
  • Jeffrey Karnes, MD (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota)
  • To Be Determined (Ohio)

Program Committee

  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Committee Chair)
  • Matthew T. Gettman, MD (President)
  • Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD (President-Elect)
  • Bradley Fields Schwartz, DO (Immediate Past President)
  • Ronney Abaza, MD, FACS (Education Committee Chair)
  • R. Houston Thompson, MD (Local Arrangements Chair)
  • To Be Determined (Resident Representative)

Women in Urology Committee

  • Larissa Bresler, MD, DABMA (Committee Chair)
  • Sarah Elizabeth McAchran, MD, FACS (Vice Chair)
  • Denise A. Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH (Illinois Alternate Representative)
  • Tamra Elizabeth Lewis, MD, FACS (Illinois Representative)
  • Sandra A. McCabe, MD (Indiana Alternate Representative)
  • Rosalia Misseri, MD (Indiana Representative)
  • To Be Determined (Iowa Alternate Representative)
  • Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD (Iowa Representative)
  • Shirley A. Harding, DO (Michigan Alternate Representative)
  • Kristina Dawn Suson, MD (Michigan Representative)
  • Cynthia See-Ming Fok, MD, MPH (Minnesota , North Dakota, South Dakota Alternate Representative)
  • Nissrine Nakib, MD (Minnesota Representative)
  • Cheryl T. Lee, MD (Ohio Alternate Representative)
  • Hadley Merrideth Wood, MD (Ohio Representative)
  • Meghan E. Schaefer, MD (Wisconsin Alternate Representative)
  • Carley Davis, MD (Wisconsin Representative)
  • Bridget Lang Findlay, MD, BS (Resident Representative)
  • Elizabeth L. Koehne, MD (Resident Representative)

Young Urologists Committee

  • Nicholas Tadros, MD, MCR, MBA (Committee Chair)
  • Nathan D. Grunewald, MD, MBA, FACS (Vice Chair)
  • Maria Francesca Monn, MD, MPH (Illinois Representative)
  • Srinivas Vourganti, MD (Illinois Representative)
  • Clint Cary, MD, MPH, MBA (Indiana Representative)
  • Daniel J. Kmetz, MD (Indiana Representative)
  • Paul Gellhaus, MD (Iowa Representative)
  • Gina Lockwood, MD,MS (Iowa Representative)
  • Amarnath Rambhatla, MD (Michigan Representative)
  • To Be Determined (Michigan Representative)
  • Michael S. Borofsky, MD (Minnesota Representative)
  • To Be Determined (Minnesota Representative)
  • Ryan M. Flynn, MD (Ohio Representative)
  • Jayram Krishnan, DO, MBA (Ohio Representative)
  • Tudor Borza, MD, MS (Wisconsin Representative)
  • Nathan D. Grunewald, MD, MBA, FACS (Wisconsin Representative)

AUA Board of Directors

  • James C. Ulchaker, MD, FACS (Representative)
  • Toby S. Kohler, MD, MPH, FACS (Alternate Representative)

AUA Bylaws Committee

  • James Andrew Brown, MD (Representative)
  • Elizabeth B. Takacs, MD (Representative)

AUA Editorial Board Committee

  • To Be Determined (Representative)
  • To Be Determined (Representative)

AUA History Committee

  • David Ralph Paolone, MD (Representative)

AUA Judicial & Ethics Council

  • Douglas W. Storm, MD (Representative)
  • To Be Determined (Representative)

AUA Public Policy Council

  • Candace F. Granberg, MD (Representative)
  • Emilie K. Johnson, MD, MPH (Representative)

AUA Research Council

  • Brian Todd Helfand, MD, PhD (Representative)
  • Todd Matthew Morgan, MD (Representative)

AUA Residents and Fellows Committee

  • Rachel A. Mann, MD (Representative)

AUA Section Secretaries/Membership Council

  • Thomas Allen Gardner, MD, MBA (Representative)

AUA Young Urologist Committee

  • Nicholas Tadros, MD, MCR, MBA (Representative)