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Matt Nielsen, MD, MS, Rhodes Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Urology, was honored on March 21 with UNC Health’s H. Fleming Fuller Award.

Professor and Chair of Urology Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS opened the Malecare 2021 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference with a virtual Keynote and Dr. Angela Smith delivered a presentation on bladder cancer after prostate cancer.

Dr. Ray Tan, alongside co-investigators Alison Lazard, PhD, Lixin (LEE) Song, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Matthew Nielsen have been awarded a 3-year, $929,618 grant from the US Department of Defense to improve the decision-making experience for patients by personalizing how they receive information about their possible kidney cancer.

Congratulations to Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS who has been approved by the Board of Directors of the American Urological Association's (AUA) as the next chair of the Science and Quality (S&Q) Council. Dr. Nielsen will assume the role of chair-elect on June 1, 2021 and serve a four-year term.

Congratulations to Drs. Borawski, Coward, Figler, Nielsen, Raynor, Ross, Smith, Sutherland, Tan, Viprakasit, and Wallen received the 2021 'Top Doctor' designation from Castle Connolly.

After serving the Department as Interim Chair since January 2020, Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS has been appointed as Chair, effective November 2020. Nielsen joined the faculty at UNC in 2009 as a urologic oncologist and health services researcher after completing medical school and residency training at Johns Hopkins. Since joining the UNC faculty, he obtained advanced training in clinical research from the Gillings School of Global Public Health and healthcare delivery improvement from the Intermountain Healthcare Delivery Institute.

Congratulations to Drs. Borawski, Bukowski, Coward, Figler, Nielsen, Ross, Smith, Sutherland, Viprakasit, and Wallen received the 2020 'Top Doctor' designation from Castle Connolly. Drs. Borawski, Ross, and Smith also were included on Castle Connolly’s 2020 list of 'Exceptional Women In Medicine.'

Dr. Matthew Nielsen, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department, was a panelist and contributing author to the American Urological Association’s new 2020 Guideline for the evaluation of hematuria, released this week. The guideline will be presented by panel co-Chairs at the AUA Live Virtual Experience at 3:45pm on Saturday, June 27.

It is with great pleasure that the UNC Urology Department announces the promotion of Interim Chair Dr. Matthew Nielsen to Professor with Tenure.

Matthew Nielsen, Interim Chair of Urology, has been appointed to support efforts to update the CMS Quality Measure Development Plan and Quality Measure Index.

Congratulations to our eight faculty physicians who were recently recognized on the 2019-20 Best Doctors List. This year, UNC Hospitals had more Best Doctors specializing in Urology than any other physician group in North Carolina.

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS assumed the role of Interim Chair of the Department of Urology on January 1, 2020. Nielsen joined the faculty at UNC in 2009 as a urologic oncologist and health services researcher.

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Nielsen Honored with H. Fleming Fuller Award

Nielsen Delivers Keynote and Smith Speaks at 2021 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference

Tan, Lazard, Song, and Nielsen Awarded Nearly $1M US Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Grant

Dr. Nielsen Approved as Next Chair of the AUA Science & Quality Council

Raynor & Tan Expand UNC Urology’s ‘Castle Connolly Top Doctors’ Ranks to 11

Nielsen Named Chair of the Department of Urology

5 UNC Urology Faculty Physicians Join Growing List of Department’s ‘Castle Connolly Top Doctors’

New 2020 AUA Hematuria Guidelines

Interim Chair Dr. Matthew Nielsen Promoted to Professor with Tenure

Nielsen Appointed to CMS Technical Expert Panel

Eight UNC Urology Faculty Included in Latest Edition of Best Doctors in America®

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS Assumes Role of Interim Chair of the Department of Urology