Yale Urology is excited to announce the addition of five new faculty members, a significant step in our department's strategic growth.
Assistant Professor Su Deng, PhD, joined our oncology section.
Deng comes to us from UT Southwestern, where she was a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Biology. UT was also where she completed her post-doctoral training. Her research has focused on targeted therapies for prostate cancer.
Outside the lab, Deng enjoys visiting libraries, attending concerts, watching musicals, and planting flowers.
Associate Professor Ping Mu, PhD, also joined our oncology section.
Mu comes to us from UT Southwestern, as well, where he was a tenured associate professor. Mu has received numerous awards, including three NIH R0I awards, the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the AACR NextGen Stars Award, the Prostate Cancer Foundations Young Investigator Award, the SBUR Young Investigator Award, the SAU Rising Star Award, the R37 MERIT Award, the DoD Idea Development Award, and two CPRIT awards.
Outside the lab, Mu enjoys pursuing his hobbies of 3D printing, soccer, photography, and spending quality time with family.
Assistant Professor Christopher Bednarz, MD, joined our clinical urology section and serves in our western region.
Bednarz was previously at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, where he received his residency training and MD.
Outside of the OR/clinic, Bednarz is passionate about animal rescue and personal investing. His wife, Emily, is originally from Milford. They are excited to be back in the northeast.
Assistant Professor Eric Bortnick, MD, MMSc, joined our pediatrics division after wrapping up a pediatric urology fellowship at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. He also completed a Master of Medical Sciences degree in medical education from Harvard Medical Center.
Bortnick has given numerous presentations nationally and internationally, has publications in urologic and educational literature, holds a provisional patent surrounding the infant male genitourinary physical exam and the diagnosis of undescended testicles, and is also a reviewer for the Frontier in Urology and Urology journals.
Assistant Professor Wei Shen Tan, MD, PhD, joined our oncology section after completing a urologic oncology fellowship from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Tan is an honorary clinical lecturer in urology at the University College London, United Kingdom, where he also obtained a PhD in uro-oncology. He completed his urology residency at the London School of Surgery, UK—University College London and Imperial College rotation.
His research focuses on bladder cancer and he has received the equivalent of >$4.5M in grant funding. He has also published more than 100 manuscripts in high impact urology and cancer journals and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Urology.
Tan has relocated here with his wife and two children.