Dr. Eric Robert Emanuel, MD is a recent addition to the practice of Drs. Willis and Melograna in the Washington Metropolitan area. Dr. Emanuel originates from the Philadelphia area where he attended the Marple Newtown Senior High School. After graduation from high school, he began his secondary schooling at the University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences where he majored in Biology. He graduated from the U of PA in 1989, and he pursued his graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Subsequent to his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Emanuel uprooted from the Philadelphia area, moved two hours north and continued his training at another Ivy League institution, Columbia University. Dr. Emanuel underwent two years of general surgery training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. After the general surgery training he pursued four years of intensive urology training at The New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell Universities. During the years of training at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Emanuel had extensive training in urologic oncology, urologic stone disease, male infertility, female urology and urogynecology including incontinence, erectile dysfunction, pediatric urology, minimally invasive urology, urologic research and many other subspecialties in the field of urology.

During his training in New York, Dr. Emanuel was actively involved in both clinical as well as laboratory research in addition to his clinical practice. He has been published in the pediatric literature as well as the oncologic, reconstructive, and infertility literature. His laboratory research focused on molecular markers used in the detection of renal cell cancer in the blood stream. Dr. Emanuel has also presented papers and abstracts on various topics in urology at a multitude of urologic conferences across the country. Recent work has focused on the role of cryosurgical ablation of the prostate for the treatment of localized prostate cancer.

Dr. Eric Emanuel, MD completed his training in New York in July 1999, and he joined the Washington urologic community also in July 1999. He continues to pursue academic endeavors within the urologic community both locally and nationally while building a busy urologic practice in the metropolitan area. He brings with him from the New York arena a multitude of innovative ideas and a broad based expertise in urologic care and urologic surgery.