• Understand how to differentiate between acute and chronic urinary retention;
• Identify people with CUR who are at risk for morbidity;
• Describe treatment strategies for managing symptomatic CUR.

Dr. John Stoffel, MD, is the Lapides Family Research Professor and Chief of the Division of Neurourology and Pelvic Reconstruction (NPR) within the University of Michigan, Department of Urology.  He attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, Washington University in St Louis for medical school and completed his urology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Lahey Clinic.  This was followed by a female/neuro/reconstructive urology fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Stoffel is an active clinician and surgeon, and his clinical and research interests include bladder physiology, neurogenic bladder, and complex abdominal reconstructive surgery. He has received several federal and industry-sponsored grants to study these topics and written over 110 papers, invited articles, book chapters and a textbook on these topics.

He is board certified in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (URPS) and a member of the Society of Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU) and the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS).  He is a founding member of the Neurogenic Bladder Research Group, which is a research collaborative of 14 institutions across United States and Canada. He has held national and regional leadership positions in Urologic associations, chaired federal grant study sections, and has been a committee member for Practice Guidelines and Quality Improvement/Patient Safety for the American Urological Association.  He currently serves as President of the North Central Section of the American Urological Association.