User:Dr. Neil H. Baum

Neil Baum is a urologist who specializes in erectile dysfunction (impotence), treatment of the enlarged prostate gland, and management of urinary incontinence. Dr. Baum is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Urology at Tulane Medical School and Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Baum has performed over 3,000 penile implant surgeries since 1978 when he was the first urologist in the state of Louisiana to insert a penile prosthesis. Dr. Baum is considered one of the leading implant surgeons in the United States. As a result of his experience, well-trained operating room staff, including anesthesiologist and nurses, he has outstanding experience with the procedure of implantation of a penile prosthesis. He has trained dozens of urologist on the surgical techniques including urologists in Europe and South America.

Biography
Dr. Baum was born in Worcester, Ohio, and attended undergraduate school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his medical doctor degree from Ohio State University in 1968. He has training in general surgery from UCLA in Los Angeles and at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas where he was a resident under the famed cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey. Dr. Baum received urologic training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas where he learned the procedure of inserting the penile prosthesis under the inventor of the device, Dr. Brantley Scott

Contributions to the field of medicine
Dr. Baum has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed medical literature. He has served as a consultant to medical manufacturing companies, including Coloplast and American Medical Systems, helping to improve the device and the insertion technique.

Certification

 * American Board of Urology (1978)
 * Licensed to practice in the state of Louisiana (1976)

Professional associations

 * American Urological Associates
 * Southeastern Section of American Urological Association
 * International Society for Impotence Research
 * Society for the Study of Impotence
 * Louisiana State Medical Society
 * Orleans Parrish Medical Society

Publications

 * http://www.neilbaum.com/docs/Cv_doc%202011.pdf