Dr. George Koch

Welcome to Backtable Urology, everyone.

I'm George Koch from The Ohio State University, and I'm really excited today to introduce Dr. Ben Breyer from the University of California, San Francisco, to discuss kind of all things urethral reconstruction.

Dr. Breyer, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today.

George, thanks for having me.

Before we get into urethral reconstruction specifically, I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about your path to becoming a reconstructive urologist.

I mean, you're one of it feels like hundreds of folks who have had some sort of like McInnich connection or McInnich mentorship.

And I mean, even me as a former University of Washington fellowship from Dr. Wessels, from Dr. McInnich, I mean, it it's

You're a grandchild, yes.

Exactly, exactly.

People would just talk about him so fondly.

You know, training under him must have been, I mean, I can't even imagine what it was like.

It must have been so special.

Yeah, no, no.

I mean, as you know, you know, here in Patel, your former fellow, my my partner here at Ohio State talks about, you know, him just kind of popping into the operating room and and saying something really insightful and, you know, to be able to kind of teach at that level where you can see a case for 10 seconds or 30 seconds and like,

progress someone without touching the patient, I think is so, so cool.

Oh, wonderful.

Love it.

How, you know, you talk a little bit about being at UCSF for, you know, the, the duration of your career then, and being under Dr. Mac and itch and now,

you know you yourself are a giant in reconstructive urology how have you seen your practice evolve from the early career and kind of how he practiced to kind of how you're treating patients now

Yeah, and that was one thing that I really wanted to get into as we kind of start to narrow down on urethral reconstruction is how you've seen the process or you've seen the pathways change from Dr. McInnich