Stephanie is a Professor in Urology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. She is a board-certified urologist with a subspecialty certification in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (now called urogynecology). She spent twenty-one years on faculty at Northwestern University in Chicago rising to the rank of Professor of Urology and Medical Education, served as the urology residency program director from 2006 to2023, on the graduate medical education committee at Northwestern, and currently serves as vice chair of the Accreditation Counsel for Graduate Medical Education (ACMGE) Residency Committee for Urology. During her time as program director, she developed, implemented, and oversaw a unique residency training curriculum, including all years of training housed within the urology department since 2007 (as implemented nationwide by the ACGME in 2021), developed an elective program including international opportunities, and expanded the resident complement. She mentored numerous medical students and residents both within and outside her institution, with a particular focus on promoting women in medicine. She received numerous teaching awards from both the medical school and residency program, including educator of the year and special recognition for contributions to resident education. She was a finalist for the AUA Residents and Fellows Teaching Award. She was the program chair of the Society of Academic Urologists National Meeting and a contributor on both subcommittees as well as a speaker and content developer for this organization.
She is a recognized expert in voiding dysfunction and incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, neurourology, and congenital urology. Stephanie was the director of the multi-disciplinary adult spina bifida clinic for 20 years- previously at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and established and served as the medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Transitional Adult Congenital Genitourinary Clinic (TRAC), a multispecialty clinic for patients with a variety of conditions, including spina bifida, bladder and cloacal exstrophy, epispadias, and many others. This clinic was one of the few of its kind across the country and serves a large volume of adult congenital urology patients. She is a founding member of the American Urological Association Working Group on Congenitalism and has published extensively on the needs and outcomes of this patient population. She has chaired several international summits on Congenitalism, participated as a speaker and co-chair for many other such meetings, and been a presenter and speaker at the World Congress of Spina Bifida. She developed the first subspecialty fellowship devoted to training urologists in the field of Congenital Urology.
Stephanie is also committed to global health, serving as mission leader and sitting on the medical board of the International Organization for Women and Development, a charity devoted to obstetric fistula repair and medical education in Kigali, Rwanda. Since 2012, Stephanie has traveled there twice a year to work and teach. She has received numerous awards for this work, including a Catalyzer Grant from the Havey Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University, the Humanitarian Award from the Urology Care Foundation of the American Urological Association, and was nominated for the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award at Northwestern. She is currently working to develop a urology residency educational exchange program with the Rwandan Urological Society and Ministry of Health including a female urology/urogynecology certificate program.