Wayne J.G. Hellstrom, MD, FACS

Dr. Hellstrom is a Professor of Urology and the Chief of Andrology at Tulane University School of Medicine. He received his MD from McGill University in Montreal, followed by a residency in general surgery there. He then completed a residency in urology at the University of California, San Francisco and an AUA scholar-funded fellowship in andrology at the University of California, Davis.

Having instructed more than 30 fellows, visiting students, residents, and physicians, Dr. Hellstrom practices as a urologist at Tulane Medical Center, University Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center (New Orleans), where he specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction, including Peyronie’s disease, surgical and vascular reconstruction, prosthetic surgery, male infertility (both surgical and medical therapies), benign prostatic hyperplasia, and urethral stricture disease.

A member of numerous professional societies, he is the former President of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA), the American Society of Andrology (ASA), and the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM). He has authored or coauthored over 100 book chapters and more than 560 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. As the editor of several textbooks in the field of andrology, including Male Infertility and Sexual Dysfunction (1997), Handbook of Sexual Dysfunction (1999), Androgen Deficiency and Testosterone Replacement (2013), and Bioenvironmental Issues Affecting Men’s Reproductive and Sexual Health (2017), he has delivered numerous presentations locally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in male sexual dysfunction and male infertility.