Alan W. Shindel, MD, MAS

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Alan W. Shindel, MD, MAS, graduated from the School of Medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 2002. He completed his residency training in urology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2007. After completion of his residency, he started a 3-year Research and Clinical Fellowship in Andrology (Men’s Reproductive and Sexual Health) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), under the direction of Drs. Tom Lue and Ira Sharlip. He joined the urology faculty at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Urology. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Urology there in 2014. His clinical practice at that time was directed toward the care of patients with sexual concerns, urinary tract symptoms, and chronic pain syndromes. During his time at UC Davis, he served in various capacities on the Medical School Admissions Committee and was Director of the Medical Student Rotations in Urology. He was the Inaugural Editor-in-Chief for Sexual Medicine, an open access journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, from 2012 to 2015, and served on the board of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America from 2013 to 2015. In 2015, he left UC Davis to serve as a Medical Director at Genomic Health Inc., a manufacturer of genomic-based tests for prostate cancer. After two years at Genomic Health Inc., Dr. Shindel returned to UCSF in 2017 as an Associate Professor of Urology. He also currently serves as Interim Vice Chair of Education and Interim Residency Program Director at UCSF. Dr. Shindel has authored over 150 manuscripts and commentaries published as peer-reviewed original research, reviews, book chapters, and/or patient information pieces on topics including sexual dysfunction in men and women, urinary tract symptoms, nutritional supplements, urologic cancers, and medical education.