Barbara and Steve Wilson Educational Foundation - Who We Are

Who we are.

Dr. Steven K. Wilson is a world-renowned urologist specializing in life-changing prosthetic and reconstructive surgery. Barbara Wilson is a nurse and Dr. Wilson's business manager, overseeing his successful California practice and international teaching schedule.

As they have watched Dr. Wilson's practice grow, they have seen the children of associates and community members struggle to put higher education within reach. Barbara and Steve Wilson created the Educational Foundation to empower the children within their community and beyond. It creates a lasting legacy of facilitating opportunities, and of fostering achievement in an often hostile system.  

 
 
 

Executive Director - Kristine Smith

Kristine Smith is the Chief Strategy Officer at talkStrategy, a full-service communications and marketing agency in San Antonio, Texas. Kristine is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and has more than 30 years of experience in marketing, branding, and strategy.

 

Board Member - Martin S. Gross, MD

Martin S. Gross, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He is the Men’s Health specialist for Dartmouth Health. He graduated from UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School and completed his Urology residency at Boston University Medical Center. He subsequently completed a Men’s Health Fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He has coauthored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, videos and book chapters. His research publications have garnered multiple awards. He serves on a number of journal and specialty society boards, including The Journal of Urology, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, and the Hispanic Urologists Society of North America. He is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Sexual Medicine and the Video Journal of Sexual Medicine. He teaches about Men’s Health and provides penile prosthetic surgical training both domestically and internationally. His clinical interests include complex penile prosthesis surgery, penile prosthesis infection prevention, and the treatment of Peyronie’s disease, male stress urinary incontinence, chronic orchialgia and hypogonadism.

 

BOARD MEMBER - Sung Hun (Sean), Park, MD

Sung Hun (Sean), Park MD is the founder of Sewum Prosthetic Urology Center of Excellence in Seoul, Korea and an Adjunct Professor of Urology at the Ajou University school of medicine in Suwon, South Korea where he received his medical degree and urology specialty training. Dr. Park received his prosthetic urology fellowship training in the US for 6 months under the guidance of Professor Steven K Wilson. He returned to Korea and established his Prosthetic Urology clinic which has grown become one of the highest-volume IPP centers in the world. He publishes extensively, creates surgical instructional videos and has pioneered surgical techniques of inflatable penile prosthesis under local anesthesia and utilizing the novel subcoronal approach. In his clinic he regularly instructs physicians from many countries and has performed live surgery workshops Taiwan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan and Germany. He is currently serving as an executive director on prosthetics of Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology and chair, prosthetics education and training committee, Asia pacific society for sexual medicine.

 

BOARD MEMBER - Jay Simhan, MD, FACS

Dr. Jay Simhan is Vice Chair,Professor of Urology and Director of Reconstructive Urology at Temple Health and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Additionally, he serves as Fellowship Director of the Society of GURS verified Male Reconstruction and Prosthetic Urolog yProgram at Fox Chase. Dr. Simhan graduated summa cum laude with highest honors and a BS degree in Chemistry from the UNC-Chapel Hill. After also obtaining his medical degree at UNC, he completed General Surgery and Urology residencies at Temple University Hospital and Fox Chase in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed additional fellowship training in Urologic Trauma, Reconstruction, and Prosthetics at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Simhan has completed additional executive leadership training at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an active and contributing member of the American Urologic Association, American College of Surgeons, Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS), SociétéInternationale d’Urologie, Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons, and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He currently serves as Fellowship Committee Chair and a member of the Board of Directors of the GURS. Dr. Simhan’s clinical practice is dedicated to urethral stricture disease, open and robotic urinary tract reconstruction, penile implant surgery, male anti-incontinence surgery, revision male prosthetic surgery, Peyronie’s disease, and complications from urologic cancer treatment. He has lectured internationally on a variety of topics in urologic reconstruction, trauma, and prosthetics and is an invited international proctor for training programs in prosthetic urology. He has published chapters in many leading textbooks, including the definitive chapter on lower urinary tract trauma in the gold-standard textbook, Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology. Dr. Simhan has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, and book chapters in leading journals including the Journal of Urology, Urology, European Urology, and the Journal of Sexual Medicine.