Rome Health has two new urologists, Jeffrey Sekula and Daniel Welchons added to its medical staff.
The board-certified urologists are performing their surgical cases at Rome Health and began providing urology call coverage for the hospital since December.
Sekula has special training in genitourinary cancers, benign prostate disease and kidney stone management, including metabolic stone evaluation. In addition, he has expertise in prosthetic urology, including penile implants, urinary slings and sphincters, and InterStim implantation.
He earned his medical degree at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency in urology at Duke University Medical Center in 2003. While in training, he earned his program’s only Pfizer Scholar urology award, three yearly academic achievement awards, and his research led to his co-authorship of an AUA basic sciences first prize-winning paper on prostate cancer molecular pathways.
Welchons’ specialties and interests are laparoscopic, robotic and prosthetic surgery. He has particular interest in urologic oncology (including prostate, renal, bladder, penile and testicular cancer), BPH, voiding dysfunction and sexual dysfunction.
He was certified by the Association of Clinical Research Professionals and has participated in many clinical studies. He has been published in several journals, including Journal of Urology and Prostate, and co-authored an article on Emedicine.com
Welchons received a full-tuition academic scholarship to attend medical school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. In medical school, he spent part of his fourth year at Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT) in Palermo, Italy, assisting in transplantation surgery services.
He completed his surgical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and residency at the Harvard program in urology. As a senior resident, he was an instructor for the New England urology training course in robotic surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Welchons was also involved with teaching students at Harvard Medical School.