New Urology Clinic Opens for Pediatric Patients

What You Need to Know

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health has opened a new dedicated clinic for pediatric patients at 360 Essex Street in Hackensack, near the Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center.

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health Harry P. Koo, M.D., chief of Pediatric Urology and Richard Schlussel, M.D., director of Pediatric Urology, and Carlos Medina, M.D., pediatric urologist, will see patients at the new Center for Pediatric Urology.

The center is located next to the adult urology clinic, and includes a separate child-friendly waiting area and six exam rooms. Diagnostic tools available for pediatric patients include ultrasound and urodynamic technology.

Additional Information

Last year, Joseph M. Sanzari launched a  combined Pediatric Nephrology and Urology Clinic for children from birth through early adulthood (age 21) who have been diagnosed with complex kidney conditions including kidney stones.

The Sanzari clinic joined the combined Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Clinic at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

At both hospitals a team of urologists and a nephrologists provide care in the hospital's kidney stone clinic and offer procedures including extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, flexible ureteroscopy and laser lithotripsy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy/nephrolithotripsy. The clinics are staffed by a multidisciplinary team that includes pediatric nephrologists, who treat conditions such as chronic kidney disease, hematuria and acute renal failure, and pediatric urologists, who treat children with bladder control issues, such as hernia, bedwetting, incontinence, kidney stones and urinary obstructions.

Pediatric nephrologists and urologists are also part of the multidisciplinary pediatric kidney transplant team at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital.