Draft:John P. Gearhart

John Phillip Gearhart (born May 24, 1949) is the Robert D. Jeffs professor of pediatric urology at the Brady Institute of Urology at Johns Hopkins University.. His clinical and research focus is the bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex, which includes classic bladder exstrophy, epispadias, and cloacal exstrophy (also known as the OEIS complex). His lab manages the Douglas A. Canning exstrophy-epispadias database, which contains data on over 1,500 patients. Dr. Gearhart is known for developing the modern staged repair of exstrophy (MSRE) surgical technique with his mentor Robert Jeffs, which is used by several sites in the United States, Europe, and Israel