One of the nation’s most accomplished and decorated urologists, Alan J. Wein, M.D., Ph.D.(hon), has joined the Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as professor of clinical urology and director of business development and mentoring.
Dr. Wein retired from Urology at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he held several leadership positions, including chief of urology. He went to medical school of Penn, and except for two years from 1972 to 1974 when Dr. Wein was a major in the United States Army, he did his training, practiced and taught at Penn for the last 60 years.
His various leadership roles at Penn are but a part of Dr. Wein’s distinguished career. Among his numerous accomplishments, Dr. Wein received the Edward L Keyes Medal from American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, a medal recognized as the greatest individual citation in the specialty. He received many important honors from the American Urological Association, including the coveted Hugh Hampton Young Award, presented annually to an individual for outstanding contributions to the study of genitourinary tract disease. Dr. Wein was recognized for his contributions to urologic education, his research on bladder dysfunction, and voiding physiology.
He has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Awards by International Continence Society and the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction.
