About Us - Biography

Gregory A. Broderick, M.D.

Dr. Broderick completed his premedical studies at Harvard University, receiving a BA in Biology, cum laude in 1979. He earned his medical degree in 1983 from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He completed his internship at Yale New Haven Hospital; he returned to San Francisco for Urologic residency and research at UCSF. He remained in California going on to the University of California Davis for fellowship in Neuro-Urology, Incontinence and Impotence. He is board certified by the American Board of Urology (1992, 2002).

In 1990 he joined the University of Pennsylvania, as an Assistant Professor. As Director of the Center for the Study of Male Sexual Dysfunction he established Penn’s research program in impotence with funding through the Public Health System / National Institutes of Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Development Program. His basic research has focused on: corporal smooth muscle physiology and priapism.

In 1998 he joined Mayo Clinic, although his primary subspecialty interest is ED, his practice is focused on men’s health and voiding dysfunction. His surgical subspecialties include: penile prosthesis, urinary sphincter implants, plastic surgical correction of Peyronie’s deformity, laser prostatectomy, kidney stones, urethroplasty, cryosurgery and nerve sparing prostatectomy. He has authored numerous peer reviewed publications and text book chapters on male sexual dysfunction: “Evaluation and Non-Surgical Management of Erectile Dysfunction,” Campbell’s Urology 9th Edition (Saunders c2007). His own book, Oral Pharmacotherapy for Male Sexual Dysfunction was published in 2005 (Humana Press).

His expertise is well recognized by the media. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, The Associated Press, Consumer Reports, Time, Business Week, US News and World Report, Fortune, Men’s Health, and CNN. In the spring of ‘98 he was featured in Philadelphia Magazine’s issue Best Physicians for the Elderly. Since 2001 he has repeatedly been featured by Jacksonville Magazine in “Jacksonville’s Top Doctors.

In 1992 he addressed the first Consensus Conference on Impotence sponsored by the NIH. In 1999 by the invitation of the Partnership for Women’s Health Columbia University and Office of Research on Women’s Health NIH he lectured at the National Press Club on: Embryologic, Anatomic and Physiologic Correlates in Male and Female Sexual Function. In summer of 1998 and 2003 he served as committee member to the World Health Organization Consultation on Erectile Dysfunction, in Paris. He is a founding member of the Society for the Study of Impotence and has subsequently served on the Board of Directors for Sexual Medicine Society of North America; he was elected President of SMSNA (2005-2006).

He currently holds the academic rank of Professor in Urology at the Mayo Medical School. He has a strong interest in medical/surgical education for practicing physicians and residents in training. He is the Program Director of Urology Residency at MCJ, and is Chairman of the Publications Committee for Sexual Medicine Society of North America. In 2006 SMSNA, published a patient magazine and launched a website for patient and physician education in men’s health: Sexual Health and Medicine and, www.sexhealthmatters.org He has served the American Urological Association as committee member and author of Clinical Guidelines: Priapism 2003, Premature Ejaculation 2004, and Erectile Dysfunction 2005 and 2006 [www.auanet.org]. In the winter of 2007 he was selected by his peers to help develop an evidence based definition of primary premature ejaculation, sponsored by the International Society of Sexual Medicine.