Rome Health announced that urology specialists JEFFREY SEKULA, M.D. and DANIEL WELCHONS, M.D. have joined its medical staff. The board-certified urologists are performing their surgical cases at Rome Health and have started providing urology call coverage for the hospital. Dr. Sekula and Dr. Welchon provide medical and surgical treatment of conditions that affect the urinary-tract […]
Rome Health announced that urology specialists JEFFREY SEKULA, M.D. and DANIEL WELCHONS, M.D. have joined its medical staff. The board-certified urologists are performing their surgical cases at Rome Health and have started providing urology call coverage for the hospital. Dr. Sekula and Dr. Welchon provide medical and surgical treatment of conditions that affect the urinary-tract system and reproductive organs, including genitourinary cancers.
Dr. Sekula has special training in genitourinary cancers, benign prostate disease, and kidney stone management, including metabolic stone evaluation. In addition, he has expertise in prosthetic urology, including penile implants, urinary slings and sphincters, and interstim implantation. Sekula earned his medical degree at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency in urology at Duke University Medical Center in 2003.
Dr. Welchons’ specialties and interests are laparoscopic, robotic, and prosthetic surgery. He has particular interest in urologic oncology (including prostate, renal, bladder, penile, and testicular cancer), BPH, voiding dysfunction and sexual dysfunction. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Welchons completed his surgical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and residency at the Harvard Program in urology. As a senior resident, he was an instructor for the New England Urology training course in robotic surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. MARGARET COOPER, D.O. has joined the Rome Health Pediatrics practice as a pediatrician. The addition of Dr. Cooper expands the pediatrics services of Rome Health to a team of five providers who work together as a team to provide care to children. She has been a pediatrician since 2012. Cooper is a graduate of Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine.