Kathleen Y. Hwang, MD
Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Surgery
Contact information
Division of Urology
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
51 North 39th Street, Suite 300, Medical Office Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
51 North 39th Street, Suite 300, Medical Office Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-8699
Education
BS (Biology and Comparative Literature)
Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, 1999.
MD
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, 2004.
Permanent linkBS (Biology and Comparative Literature)
Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, 1999.
MD
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, 2004.
Selected Publications
Cheng LG, Huang SL, and Hwang K: Contemporary Insights Into Fertility Preservation in the Prepubertal Male: A Systematic Review. Urology 213: 24-33, July 2026.Cheng LG, Wecht A, McNally K, Hwang K: Patient-reported understanding of male reproductive healthcare following Dobbs. Journal of Urology 213(e1285), May 2025 Notes: Presented at the 119th Annual meeting of the American Urological Association, AUA 2025, Las Vegas, NV, April 2025.
Cheng LG, Liu E, Mark E, Hwang K, Chaudhry R: Prone to Stones?: Evaluating the association between food insecurity, psychiatric comorbidity, and pediatric stone management. Journal of Pediatric Urology April 2025.
Cheng LG, Huang SL, Hwang K: Genetic syndromes leading to male infertility: a systematic review. Fertility and Sterility March 2025.
Zielen AC, Peters KA, Shetty G, Gross DA, Hanna CB, Dovey SL, Wecht A, Cannon GM, Meistrich ML, Hsieh M, Hwang K, Orwig KE: Ultrasound-Guided Rete Testis Approach to Sperm Aspiration and Spermatogonial Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Azoospermia. medRxiv [Preprint] March 2025.
Evan J Panken, Daniel R Greenberg, Catherine S Nam, Kathleen Hwang, Robert E Brannigan, and Joshua Halpern: The use of immotile testicular sperm for in vitro fertilization/ intracytoplasmic sperm injection: what are the outcomes? F&S Reports Page: 108-115, March 2025.
Cheng, LG, White K Jarlenski M, Hwang K: Patient-Reported Influence of Sociopolitical Issues on Post-Dobbs Vasectomy Decisions. JAMA Network Open January 2025.
Cheng LG, Hwang K: Reply of the authors:"Isolated teratospermia in fertile men: a call for reassessment" F&S Reports 6(1): 96, November 2024.
Cheng L, Madhavaram A, Hwang K: Living on a prayer: Comparing resident compensation to living wages Journal of Urology. Journal of Urology 211(5S): e298, May 2024 Notes: Poster presentation at the 118th Annual meeting of the American Urological Assocation, AUA 2024, San Antonio, TX May 2024.
Cheng L, Miller D, Wecht A, Pelzman D, Hwang K: The questionable clinical utility of sperm morphology: Rate of isolated teratospermia in a population of fertile men. Journal of Sexual Medicine 21(Suppl 2): ii113, Mar. 2024 Notes: Presented at the 24th World Meeting on Sexual Medicine, WMSM, Dubai, Dec. 2023.