Darshan P. Patel, MD

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, California

Darshan P. Patel, MD, is an Associate Professor of Urology at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California. Dr. Patel specializes in men's urologic health, including male infertility, low testosterone, erectile dysfunction, Peyronie's disease, prosthetic urology, and cosmetic lower genitourinary reconstruction. He is an expert in microsurgical vasectomy reversal, varicocele repair, testicular sperm extraction, as well as medical treatments and advanced surgical reconstruction for complex Peyronie's disease and erectile dysfunction.

Dr. Patel earned his medical degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then completed a residency in urologic surgery and a clinical fellowship in Reconstructive Urology and Men’s Health, as well as a fellowship in Andrology, Male Infertility, and Sexual Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Dr. Patel holds a prestigious grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs evaluating the genetic overlap between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular diseases. He has previously received competitive grants through the American Urological Association and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Patel also serves as an associate editor for Therapeutic Advances in Urology and the International Journal of Impotence Research and serves as a peer reviewer for over a dozen medical journals focused on reproductive urology and men's health. He has authored and co-authored over 140 publications and has been featured in prominent journals such as Fertility and Sterility, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Urology, Journal of Urology, World Journal of Urology, and the British Journal of Urology.