Barbara and Steve Wilson Educational Foundation - 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.  

Steven K. Wilson, MD and Barbara Wilson

Steven Wilson, MD, FACS, FRCS (England) was valedictorian of Fort Smith Arkansas high school, attended Yale University and graduated from University of Virginia Medical School. He was conscripted into two years in the Air Force during the Viet Nam Conflict and following that finished his Urology Residency at Vanderbilt University. He is a thought leader for Prosthetic Urology, the implantation of medical devices for incontinence and impotence. His innovations in surgical technique, surgical instrumentation and clinical investigation have been chronicled in more than 200 peer reviewed scientific articles, 15 textbook chapters and countless surgical videos. He serves as Editor-In-Chief of the Video Journal of Prosthetic Urology which he founded. Dr. Wilson regularly travels domestically and throughout the world demonstrating surgery, lecturing and teaching surgical technique.

Barbara Wilson, BSN grew up in Mulberry Arkansas on a farm as the youngest of 8 children. She graduated valedictorian from high school and became a surgical scrub tech. With the help of hospital and the state of Arkansas scholarships she subsequently received her Registered Nurse Degree. Barbara completed her Bachelor’s of Nursing from Arkansas State University. The only one of her siblings to attend college, and equipped with her degrees, Barbara became the youngest head nurse in the history of the second largest hospital in Arkansas.

Board of Directors

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 co authored 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 Urology Program 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), Société Internationale 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.

BOARD MEMBER - Faysal A. Yafi, MD

Dr. Yafi is Associate Professor of Urology, Chief of the Division Men’s Health and Reconstructive Urology, Director of Men’s Health and Newport Urology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). His practice is specialized in men’s health, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, Peyronie’s disease, prosthetic surgery, male voiding dysfunction/enlarged prostate and male infertility. Dr. Yafi earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut. He then served his internship in General Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and subsequently completed his residency in Urology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He then completed a two year fellowship in Andrology, Sexual Medicine and Prosthetic Urology at Tulane University. Dr. Yafi is certified by the American Board of Urology and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Yafi has served on numerous national and international society committees such as the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the Société Internationale d'Urologie. He is also a member of the American Urological Association Priapism guidelines. Dr. Yafi also serves as editor in chief of the Video Journal of Sexual Medicine. Dr. Yafi has an avid interest in both basic and clinical research. He has contributed more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, educational guidelines and book chapters, has been invited as a visiting professor and a speaker at multiple national and international venues, and has received multiple national and international awards and recognitions, including the UCI Excellence in Teaching award in 2020, the UCI Rising Stars award in 2020, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America Young Investigator Award of Excellence in 2022 and the International Society of Sexual Medicine Rising Star Award in 2024. Along with his wife Natalie, he is the co-editor of a book entitled “Effects of Lifestyle on Men’s Health”.

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