University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital is home to Iowa’s only board-certified pediatric urologists. All pediatric urology faculty have undergone two years of additional pediatric urology training following their general urology residency. Our team provides expert care for the full range of urologic conditions in pediatric patients.

In some children, an underlying psychological condition may have led to bowel or bladder issues. In other children, bowel and bladder issues may lead to significant emotional problems. Our Voiding Improvement Clinic, the only clinic of its kind in the Midwest, is a partnership between our pediatric urology and child psychology providers and is devoted to treating pediatric bladder and bowel issues using a collaborative, individualized approach.

Differences of sex development is a group of conditions that lead to atypical development of the internal or external sex organs. These developmental differences occur before birth. Our multidisciplinary team works with families to provide comprehensive and compassionate care, with counseling and support built into the plan so that families are prepared to cope with the diagnoses, complexities, and unknown outcomes as early in the process as possible.