Brian Richard Matlaga MD, MPH

Dr. Brian Matlaga is the Stephens Professor of Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and also serves as the Director of Ambulatory Care for the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute. Dr. Matlaga received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and his Medical Degree and a Master of Public Health degree from Tulane University. He then completed his internship in surgery and residency in urology at Wake Forest University; his subsequent fellowship at Indiana University was supported by an American Foundation for Urologic Disease Research Scholarship.

Dr. Matlaga is an internationally recognized expert in the medical and surgical management of patients with urinary stone disease, and he is the Director of Stone Disease for the Brady Urological Institute. This expertise is built on his academic investigations of the pathophysiology and epidemiology of stone formation, as well as into the advancement of minimally invasive surgical techniques.

A frequent contributor to the medical press, Dr. Matlaga’s research has received both national and international awards; in 2014, he was the recipient of the Endourological Society’s Arthur D. Smith Endourology Lectureship, which was given in recognition of accomplishments in the first ten years of his career.